<TITLE>07. Par 23-27</TITLE>L-23 So when they had a place that... Moses couldn't pray for all of them. So then, God told him to go and erect a brass serpent, put it on a pole. We skipped over that last night, just said they had the brass serpent.
Let's take a symbol of that. The first thing, the brass serpent represented Jesus Himself, 'cause the serpent represented sin already judged from the garden of Eden. And Jesus was made sin for us, knowing no sin. The brass that the serpent was made out of represented Divine judgment. Brass is Divine judgment.
If you notice the brazen altar, the judgment where the sacrifice was burnt. And Elijah, in the days when Israel had got away from God, and there were going to be a great Divine judgment upon... He said the skies looked like brass, Divine judgment.
And the pole, of course, was the cross. And the brass serpent couldn't pray for anyone. They just looked at the brass serpent and lived: look and live. And that was the type of Christ. And if they could look at the type and live, how much more ought we to look at the antitype, Jesus Himself, and live? Amen.

L-24 We find out many times that people rely on their symptoms, if they're prayed for. I was going to find the report from Brother Joseph, see how many went away last night with really... after a full week of Gospel teaching how to be healed, that went away and say, "Well, still got it." See? And you'll probably always have it (See?), if you feel that way.
Faith don't see that thing. Faith sees what God says. Faith don't see any symptoms at all. Faith refuses to see symptoms. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, if they are there, shouldn't we say they're there?" "No. No, sir."

L-25 You say, "He's the Lord that..." confess, "He's the High Priest of our confession," Hebrews 3, and any of you brethren know that "confess" and "profess" there is the same word. So He's the High Priest of our confession. He can't do nothing until first we confess that He's done it.
There's no healing in man; there's no healing in medicine. Proved that to you the other night. There's no healing in medicine; medicine don't claim to heal. It's a remedy, keeps clean while God heals. Medicine don't build tissue; medicine can't mend a bone. Medicine can't heal up a sore or a cut. Certainly not, it just keeps it clean while God heals it. God does the healing. And medicine just keeps it clean. A doctor will tell you the same.
He said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all of your diseases." Every disease is healed by God. Medicine just keeps clean, while God does the healing. Now, remedies keep you quiet and so forth. Aspirin, quietens your nerves, and so forth, while God does the healing.

L-26 Now, notice, in this great journey, God had give this promise that He would take care of them and He did. He had to keep His Word.
So He... This serpent that was lifted upon the pole was represented, Jesus. Now, the people looked at the serpent and believed that God had it erected and they were healed. The serpent couldn't pray for them. Now, they looked and lived. And if under the type, if they could look and live, how much more ought we when we even are praying for one another to live...

L-27 Notice, symptoms. I just happen to think of a fellow had a real bad case of symptoms one time. And that was a fellow named Jonah. Jonah had the worst case of symptoms of anybody I ever knew of. He really had it. The first thing, he was backslidden. Now, that's a big word for a Baptist preacher to say, isn't it? Backslidden, but he sure was. Anybody that don't mind God, is backslid.
So he was backslidden out on a stormy sea, hands tied behind him, feet tied low, throwed out in the ocean, and a hungry whale swallowed him and went down to the bottom of the sea. And the--Jonah was in the belly of the whale in the bottom of the sea, backslid. Talk about symptoms, he really had it. If he looked this way, he saw the whale's belly; everywhere he looked he saw the whale's belly. But you know what he said? He said, "They're lying vanities."


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