<TITLE>18. Par 62-64</TITLE>L-62 All right. Now, look this a way and believe. Jesus, one day was going through a crowd. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, what do you take so much time for?" It's best that you would understand thoroughly one thing, than to haphazardly chew up a lot of things and you wouldn't understand it. See? Look, Jesus was going through a crowd of people. And everybody was all around Him. And a little woman touched His garment, and walked away, and hid herself out in the audience. And Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
Now, He did not feel that on the border of His garment. Touch the hem of your skirt, down at the end of it and find out if you do, or your overcoat, down at the end and see. Let somebody touch the overcoat and see if you feel it. Certainly not. But He felt it, the touch that she supernaturally made. It was her faith that touched Him. Closely now, listen, don't miss it. Her faith touched Him. He said, "Who touched Me?" Everybody denied it. She denied it too. All denied it. "Who touched Me?" Nobody knowed. He said, "But somebody's touched Me." Said, "I've got weak." Virtue gone from Him. Virtue is strength. "I got weak." Everybody denied.
And Peter said, "Lord, who touched You? Why, the whole multitude's touching You." But it was a different touch.
Finally, being the King and Lord of the seers, He looked through the audience until He found the woman. And He said, "Thy faith has saved thee," the blood issue. Then she run and fell down at His feet and confessed everything, how she had done it. He said, "Daughter, be of a good cheer, thy faith has saved thee."

L-63 That was Jesus yesterday. Now, that... If He--that was Jesus yesterday, and He's got to be Jesus the same today if the Bible's true, and we know it is, then how could we touch Him today? Say, "Brother Branham, you said you was a fundamentalist, what about the Scripture for that?"
The Bible said, that, "He is our High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." Is that right?
Then if your--that woman's faith could touch Him then, what was she touching? Not Jesus, she touched His clothes. But what did she really touch? She touched God. And she could... Jesus didn't know who it was. The Father hadn't showed Him that, but she drawed from God her desire, and Jesus was God's mouthpiece. So He spoke to her, what she done it, and how she done it, and told her she was healed. Now, Jesus was gone away and setting in the Presence of God with His own Blood as a High Priest. Now, He has to use His Church tonight for a mouthpiece. Is that right? "Take no thought what ye shall say, for it's not you that speaketh but your Father that dwelleth in you; He speaketh." Then your faith touches God.

L-64 And people are born in the world, some to be apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. God sets those in church. Is that right? Then He's got people that could preach the Gospel, teach the Word, be a missionary. A... An apostle is a missionary, both the same word, "someone that's sent." See? Why you ever desired to be called a missionary, I don't know. A missionary is an apostle. And how they was sent... And all these God has put in the church, then how does He touch?


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