<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 If the man is here tonight, I hope he doesn't take this as an offense. I hope he takes it in--in the way of--of love. A fellow called me up; he said, "Brother Branham, I'd like to make a contact with you."
I said, "Well, I'll tell you, brother; I don't have anything to do with the appointments, and especially while we're having healing services. I kinda stay alone most of the day and pray, study, submitting myself, and yielding myself to the Holy Spirit."
He said, "But I--I--I want to make a contact with you the way you make a contact on the platform."
I said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "Well, I've got a loved one that's sick." And said, "I--I--I want them healed."
And I said, "Well now, you know I'm not the healer."
And he said, "Well, I--I--I want to make the contact the way them people does out in the audience." And make the contact 'cause he'd notice many people that had come from his community that had been healed by that, just making the contact. I said, "Brother, it's not contacting me; I'm sure. It's contacting Christ."
He said, "How do I do that?"
I said, "By believing Him." That's right. By believing and resting your faith upon His finished works; that's it. And every true, genuine, gift of God will point to Calvary on the finished works of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no one can heal; there's no one can save; there's no one can add one thing to salvation, not a thing. And that's the reason that I'm speaking tonight for a few moments on the subject that I aim to--to speak on here tonight, "The Infallible Word Of God."

L-9 There is a time where we have to take out the blueprint to find out how far up the road we are, how close the building is being completed. And I, for myself I know along with many, and all the believers in here, rest our eternal destination solemnly upon the Word of God. That's all. And anything outside of That, I would not say I do not believe it; I would say this: I do not understand it. It must come by the Word.

L-10 Now, in Matthew the 24th chapter and beginning with the--with the 34th and 35th verse, I read this:
 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
 Heavens and earth... pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

L-11 Now, in the Old Testament God had about three ways that He could make the people understand His message, or bring a message to the people. Now, the first thing you want to recognize, is first you have to have solemn faith in the Bible. I was talking to a psychologist not long ago, and he said, "Well, Mr. Branham," he said, "if a man believed that he could walk out here and touch a pole, or a tree, and be healed, it would happen."
I said, "Who in the world would have faith to know that he touched the pole or tree, he'd be healed?"
Faith is not built upon such shifting sands as that. Faith has its firm resting place on the eternal Rock of God's Word and not upon the shifting sands of man's theology, but upon God's eternal Word. Faith has to have a resting place.


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