<TITLE>03. Par 4-5</TITLE>L-4 And we went over to the place where the Angel of the Lord came down and told me what to do. And now, Christian friends, on this point we come to this thing. We do not claim that we can do any healing, as our ministers, ministry doesn't feature Divine healing, but we believe in Divine healing, because it's the Gospel.
And no man can heal anyone. Healing doesn't lay in the power of man. Healing lays in the power of God. And God doesn't give men power to heal. God only gave Christ the--the commission to come to the earth to die in our stead for our sins and our sickness. The Scripture said, "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were ('Were' is a passed tense.), we were healed." And we believe that upon our confession of faith, that Jesus, our High Priest, has died and rose again to take away sin from the world, and is setting at the right hand of God the Father, there making intercession upon our confession.
And when He died for our sins, He could not die for sins, without dying for sickness. Sickness is an attribute of sin. Now, maybe you haven't sinned, as what causes you to be sick, but it was the cause of sin in the first place, that brought sickness to the world. Before we ever had any sin, we had no sickness. But when sickness came in sin is an attribute. And now, you cannot deal with sin in any way, without dealing with sickness or every attribute that sin produced. Sin, when we deal with sin, we deal with death. When we deal... And sickness is the--the first stage of death, when sickness takes your body.
In a night like this, with one little gathering, two days notice for you people to come out and gather in the building tonight, it would be hard to try to go into detail, which we would in campaigns where we're lasting for weeks and weeks, to explain what is sickness, where does it come from. There isn't nothing but what there's a reason for it and there's a cause. And you can't find the cure until you find a cause.
I was saying, here not long ago. If I went to a doctor... I'm certainly not against doctors, surgeons, operation, hospitals, they're all God's plans. But if I went to a doctor and told him I was having a persistent headache, and he'd give me an aspirin, and say, "Now, run along, Billy, this will be all right," now that man is brushing me off. See? He, the on... A real doctor would diagnose my case and see what was wrong with me. And then he'd get to the bottom where it's at, and then start working from there. Well, now that's the way we have to work in--in Divine healing or in salvation for the soul. If a man comes and says that he's disturbed greatly about his--his salvation, the first thing to do, you ministers do, you go right down the line till you find back here, where he side-stepped or what happened. From there you bring it up. That's the same thing it is in Divine healing. Which Divine healing is not some power that God has given to a man, healing lays alone in the atonement.

L-5 I want to ask you something, 'cause I know there's ministers here from the different churches. And how would you preach salvation for the soul? The only thing you could not say... We say, "Well, I was converted, Brother Branham. I was saved ten years ago. I was saved twenty years ago." No, that's a mistake. You accepted it, maybe, ten or twenty years ago, but you were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died at Calvary. He settled that sin question forever there. There's where He paid the supreme price, made the great sacrifice, that through His death at Calvary, then we have right to salvation. The price is paid.
So it isn't what you do; it's what He done. And your personal faith has to accept that, brings your salvation. And now, but He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed.


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