<TITLE>15. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 Now, you see where I placed the Gospel, that there's no power in any man to heal, no power in any man to forgive sins? It was already done; it's a finished work. But if Jesus was standing here tonight Himself, you'd ask Him to heal you, He'd say, "Child of Mine, can't you believe that I did that? I was wounded for your transgressions. With My stripes you were healed." See? You were healed. Can't you believe that? Then what else could He do?
By being the Master of all the seers, the Lord of heaven, He might tell you something, or do some supernatural something else that you'd recognize, it would be Scriptural, and you'd know it was Him, like He did through them at Emmaus. But Himself, He said, "I do nothing except the Father shows Me first. What I see the Father doing, that I do also." He knew the people would come to Him; they come to Him, and they talk to Him a little while, He knew just exactly where the trouble was. Is that right?
He told a woman one day just what her trouble was setting there, and she said, "Well, this is the sign of the Messiah. We don't--don't know Who You are, but we know that when Messiah cometh, He will do these things, but Who are You?"
The woman at the well, He told her about her--where her trouble was. He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
She run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me what I've done." See?
And when Nathanael come to Jesus, after Philip went and called him, and he was a staunch believer, He didn't... But he couldn't believe Jesus. He said, "Now, look, could anything good come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come and see."

L-53 Your little pastor here, who's been so shook up, Brother Joseph... Today walking with our arms around each other down by the seaside, or the lakeside, he said, "Brother Branham, my burdened heart, oh, my people, Chicago, I want to see it shook."
I've never told him. I said, "Brother Mattsson, I want to tell you something. You--you might not believe this. (See?) You might not believe it. But the thing that you prayed and wrestled along your pillow at night, the tears that you shed, the prayers, the long fastings that you went forth with your hands up; there's something burning in you heart, 'O God, do something for Chicago, do something.'" It's already done."
He said, "But Brother Branham, I--I want to see Chicago shook."
I said, "It's been shook." That's right; it's been shook. I said, "The Bible said, all the prophets speaking of the coming of the Lord, of John the Baptist, they said, 'Every mountain will be brought down. Every low place will be brought up. All the rough places will be made clear.' And what did them people think? Oh, angels will come down, and they'll beat the drums and the bands, and what a time we'll have out there. But what was it? A little old fuzzy faced prophet come out of the wilderness with his beard sticking out like one of these here fuzzy worms. He had a--a big piece of sheepskin wrapped around him and a leather girdle, about half dressed, preaching, 'Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,' Not even with shoes on. Standing bare-footed and mud squishing up between his toes on the muddy banks of Jordan. And that's what the Bible called great." That's right.

L-54 Why, I said, "Even the--the trees all clapped their hands, the leaves did." And said, "The mountains skipped like little lambs." When they knowed this was taking place. But the... See, what man calls great, God calls foolish. What man calls foolish, God calls great. Chicago has been shook time after time. Right. And 'All the Father has given me will come,'" or disobey God. How can a man come unless God calls him?"


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