<TITLE>17. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 Here some time ago a minister of a certain denomination who doesn't believe in miracles, don't even believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit now, he said to me, he said, "Listen, preacher." He said, "If you are a apostle, if you are a prophet..."
I said, "I have never said that, sir. I'm neither an apostle nor a prophet." I said, "I am a servant of the Lord Jesus."
He said, "If you be the healer..."
I said, "I never did say I was the healer." I said, "The Lord Jesus is healer."
Said, "But if you were like the apostles were..."
I said, "Never, only saved by the same grace."
Said, "Well, you claim to have the same Holy Ghost?" I said, "Now, you're lining up. That's right."
He said, "Then if you are one like the apostles who had the Holy Ghost, then why don't you go over here to the hospital and say, 'Every one of you sick people, get up and walk out.'" And said, "Every one of them will obey, do what you tell them to do."
I said, "Do you believe that Jesus still saves?"
"Absolutely."
I said, "Go down here to the honky-tonks, to the race tracks, to the barrooms, say, 'Every one of you is--is Christians, come on out and get away from the world.'"
He said, "I could if they'd believe."
I said, "So could I." That's right. Sure. That's it. It's upon the atonement, correctly.

L-59 He said, "Well, you remember, Mr. Branham," he said, "the apostles never did make a mistake. Every person they prayed for was healed."
I said, "You better not tell that to my eight year old girl. She'll make you ashamed of yourself; you don't know the Bible no better than that." I said, "My, a man with a doctors degree and know no more about the Bible than that." Why, I said, "When Jesus come off of Mount of Transfiguration the apostles had been there trying their best to cast out a devil of an epileptic child. And the man come and said, 'I brought him to Your servants, and they could do nothing with him. And I brought him to You.'"
Jesus said, "How long will you disbelieve?" Brought the child up there and no question to Him. He was God. And He just called to the spirit; it left him.
The apostles said, "Why couldn't we do it?" They had failed.
Paul left his friend sick, Timothy, with a stomach trouble. Paul...?... But they were doing the best they could with what they had to do with. Jesus had the Spirit without measure; we got it by measure. Said, "How could you condemn a man..."
I said, "Talk about some of the failures, why don't you talk about some of the success if you're a Christian?" 'Cause his heart was away from God, his intellectuals was moving him by some theological experience he'd had. I said, "There you are."

L-60 He said, "Well, if you're the... I heard you say in one of your sermons that Jesus said, 'The things that I do, shall you also.'" Said, "Let's see you break the bread then and feed the five thousand, and let me see you turn the water into wine."
I said, "We are in our infancy. We are moving up. And quick as we get you bunch of formal fanatics out of the way, we'll be doing that, but we're doing the..." I said, "Now, healing's not questioned any more; even the doctors recognize it. The best medical associations in the whole American Medical Association recognizes that Divine healing comes through the Blood of Jesus Christ. That's right." I said, "If we can get you bunch of unbelievers out of the way long enough to get God moving through the crowd, you'll see such things take place. We're just moving up. Look at the miracles that Jesus started the same way, moved right on up finally to the resurrection of the dead."


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