<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Say, "Brother Branham, can you..." I can't do nothing; it's you that's a doing it. You're just making me do the talking; your faith is doing that. You out there in the audience with diseases and sickness and things, it's you, using God's gift. Now, you see, God has a gift.
Now, let's just measure it like this so--because of somebody might come in for the first time, tonight. Jesus Christ was the greatest gift that God every had. Don't you believe that? And when He was here on earth, He had--He had the Spirit without measure: all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, dwelt in Christ. Now, He was like the whole oceans, all the seas, and all the water; which is about four-fifths of the earth is covered with water. And all that water was in Him that's comparison with the blessing and the measure of Spirit that God gave Him. Now, in His servants, and ministers and we, is just spoonful of water, in comparison, of an ocean or the sea. But the same--same chemicals that's in the whole ocean is in that spoonful too. See? So it's got to produce the same thing if it comes from the same place. You see? That's the reason.
Now, you say, "Brother Branham..." I--I have so much criticism and I'll be so glad... I'm praying that God will let me start it in old Mexico for the first time.

L-10 And as I come to Shreveport, the first time: It was laying hands on the people, and He let me know what was wrong with them. He told me, "If you'll be sincere, it'll come to pass that you'll know the very secret of the heart." How remembers that--me predicting that before? Uh-huh. Did it happen? Now, it's gone on a little farther than that now: not little farther, but way farther. See? Now, it'll just keep moving on. And you mark it; see if there's one speck of fanaticism or anything that's not THUS SAITH THE LORD in it. It'll be Scrip--Scripturally purely.

L-11 Now, and Jesus of Nazareth, when this whole water was...?... out--or the Spirit on Him, rather as I said "water" awhile ago, giving a parable so you'd understand... Now, He was God's gift. And any time that God wanted Him to do anything, God just raised Him up and showed Him what to do. And He said, "I do not do nothing in Myself." Is that right? "I only do what I see the Father doing." Did Jesus say that? Then He could not lie; that has to be truth. Now we just might as well settle that forever.
Jesus said that He did nothing except the Father showed Him first what to do: "What I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Check back through the Bible and see if the prophets or anything, ever done anything outside of first seeing it first to be done, 'cause you can't say it's THUS SAITH THE LORD unless the Lord has said it and you know it. It ain't a mythical workup or some mental emotion; it isn't a psychological--psychology; it is absolutely God foreshowing something that's going to happen. Correctly. And it'll happen every time. It'll never fail once.

L-12 Now, watch Jesus of Nazareth. He come walking through an audience of people and a little woman pressed her way through all the unbelievers. And she was anemia; she had a blood issue. And she said in her heart, "I believe Him. If I could only touch His garment, I'll be made whole." And maybe she slipped under this man's arm; he pushed her back. She come around the other side and slipped in the other side; went between that one's knees; and on down till she got over to a place till she touched Him; walked back away, and walked out in the audience. Jesus stopped, said, "Who touched Me?" And she and the rest of them said, "Not me." They all denied it. But He said, "I perceive that I have gotten weak." See if that translation isn't right: "Virtue (strength) has gone from Me."
See? What did she do? He looked around until His power of discernment caught the woman, who she was. He said, "Thy faith has healed thee." And then she come, fell down at His feet, and confessed it all. Now, "Thy faith has healed thee," or "saved thee," rather, "Thy faith has saved thee."


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