<TITLE>06. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, "Making A Way." I don't believe that God ever run His office just a haphazard way. I--I wouldn't run mine; you wouldn't run yours. Jesus didn't die at Calvary, just to say, "Well, now maybe people will feel sorry for Me, being that I come--go to earth and take on the form of flesh, and they will really get saved. Maybe if they see how pitifully I die."

L-24 God didn't do that. Jesus died for one purpose: and that was to save those who God foreknew would be saved. That's right. God knew there was going to be somebody saved, and there had to be a preparation, or a way made, for them to be saved. If there wasn't, salvation wasn't possible. So God foreknowing that people would be saved, knowing who they were, He had to lay a plan down.
Now, you'd say to me, "Brother Branham, then God knows exactly who will be saved?" Correctly.
"Why does He say, He's not willing that any should perish?" He isn't. He isn't willing that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance. But the order to be God, He has to know who will do that, or He wasn't God. 'Cause He is--He's omnipotent; He's omnipresent; He's omniscient; He knows everything. He's at every place, and all powerful.
So foreknowledge looks back and says that He foresaw this, and knows that's the reason He could tell what the end was from the beginning. And therefore, knowing that all these marvelous days that we're living in now, and to stand and witness and see the things that we've seen now, God had to make a preparation for it.

L-25 The other night, was so amazed. A little woman come up to the platform, that big three hundred thousand dollar place there, and she had a little make-up stuff on her face. She stood there and she started trembling. I said, "You're Lutheran," by the Holy Spirit.
She said, "Yes sir."
And I said, "You're here to be prayed for. And the reason you're walking the way you are, both knees have been broke." I said, "That was caused by a car accident in a car that you were driving in four years ago."
She said, "That's true."
I said, "Your doctor's a little short fellow, bald-headed and wears glasses."
Said, "That's right."
And I said, "He's doctoring, because that in the--the knees the bone has become tubercular, and even the flesh is a rottening around the bone."
She said, "That is right." And she said, "Is there a hope for me?"
I said, "That depends on your approach to the Lord Jesus." I said...
She said, "Can you help me?"
I said, "No, Ma'am. No one can help you now, but you have to help yourself to God's provided blessings for you."
And she said, "I now believe with all my heart."
I said, "The Lord healed you, sister; it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, you're healed."
She said, "Mr. Branham, I haven't been able to kneel," she said, "for four years," while weeping, standing there rubbing her hands. And a great audience of people weeping, watching her. Lutherans, Presbyterians.
And I said, "Why don't you go down to the altar and kneel down."
She said, "Let me kneel right here, right where I'm healed."
She never moved from her steps, but she knew she was healed. Something took place. See? She knew it; there wasn't any guessing about it.
I said, "Kneel down."
And for the first time in four years, with both knees broke and all calloused over, made over the bones together. That woman, like a young woman, knelt on her knees with the tears streaming from her cheeks, raised up her hands to God, why just raised right up from there just as easy, like a little girl, and tipped off the platform. What was it? God had to make a way for that. Now, He sent doctors, that's right. And doctors are fine. And they done all they could do, but God had made a way. That's it. See? After the doctor had failed in his way, God's way is so much higher than our way. What a wonderful thing.


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