<TITLE>05. Par 20-24</TITLE>L-20 "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, what is it out there? What'd you see now?" Well, I get my fingers up as high as I can, stand on my tiptoes just as high up as I can. I say, "I--I see an elephant." Come down, I'm just give out. You say, "What else you see, Brother Branham?" Well, I get up high again. Just reach up.
"I--I--I--I see a giraffe." It's just making me weak.
Now, that's a illustration of what a gift is. Now, a gift of a seer, or to give visions, that comes from God alone.
Visions, the first thing I remember as a little baby boy was a vision. I wasn't eighteen months old when I told my mother where we'd live at, and everything else. See? That's right. And spent my life near New Albany. And we was hundreds of miles from there; that's where I've lived for about forty years. See?

L-21 See, it just comes just as natural to that, as it is for you to do what you do. Well now, I'll give you an illustration. When Jesus was here on earth, all the power that was in God was in Him, for He was God manifested in flesh, God made human in the body of His Son, Christ Jesus, tabernacled here. For the Bible said God was in Christ. The Father was in His Son representing His love to the people here on earth. See?
Now, very simple. Now, notice. Now, that gift that was in Jesus was like the whole ocean out here, all the waters in the world, in comparison, with this little gift, just a spoonful out of that ocean.

L-22 Now, God gave Him the Spirit without measure. He gives it to you and I by measure. He measured me out a spoonful. But when He measured it out to His Son, He measured the whole oceans. See what I mean?
But notice, the same chemicals that's in this spoon is in the whole ocean. And all the chemicals in the ocean is in the--or--or a measure of them is in this spoon. It's the same kind. See, it'll do the same thing. It'll do the same works. It'll produce the same Life. Don't you believe that? That's what makes us Christians.
Now, when Jesus was here on earth, He said, "I can do nothing except the Father shows Me." First it had to be a vision. And the vision Jesus saw, then He went and done it. Look at the blind man following Him that day. They come along hollering, "Have mercy on us." He never even paid a bit of attention to them, went on in.

L-23 And they went around somehow and come in behind or--you got into the house. They--and they brought him to Him. And He said, "What would... What's you want?" or other words, "What would you have Me do?"
Said, "Lord, that we might receive our sight."
He said, "If you can believe."
They said, "We believe."
Then He touched their eyes. Now, watch. He never said, "You have received your sight." He said, "According to your faith be it unto you." See?
Now, the woman that touched His garment that I spoke on last night, the woman, Jesus never knew the woman. Now, because He asked the question, "Who touched Me?"
Why, everybody said, "Why," Peter said, "everybody's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that I have," What? "Virtue has gone out." And what is virtue? Strength. "I've gotten weak." What made Him get weak? That woman touched His garment because she believed Him to be the Son of God, and she pulled from Him the virtue.

L-24 Just like the Angel on the water. The first one stepping in, all the virtue of the Angel went to that person. The first faithful one, stepped in. All the virtue went to that person and they were healed. And then the Angel went away to come back again. But all the virtue on the water went to that person and returned again. First one stepping in... Is that what the Bible says? All right. See?
Now, the Scripture is just as plain. Maybe a little different from what the schools, but remember when Jesus come, it was a lot different than what the schools taught. See? So you have to just... He was absolutely Scriptural, though they didn't think He was, but He was.


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