<TITLE>05. Par -</TITLE>L-6-5 Now, you might wonder what takes place on the platform when a--a--a patient--or I wouldn't say it that way; that's too much in medical term. May I say, when a friend is standing before me, wanting help, here's what takes place. The... I have nothing to do with that, not one thing. It's that patient itself operating that Divine gift. I have nothing to do with it at all. I just keep yielding, yielding, until their spirit and the Spirit that is--is on me, that I'm yielded to--till the Holy Spirit... (I will call it this, make it this way rather, so that you'll understand.) Here's the Holy Spirit up here, and then I just keep yielding myself to Him till I know that He's--He's there. And I'm speaking to the person 'till I can get their attention. Until then, I know nothing else; and the Holy Spirit, by my spirit being yielded, shows me their life. And when that takes place, that builds the faith of the patient up to a place like this; and many times, then I start to say something else; and It'll stop me and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." Now, watch that. That's perfect each time; it never fails. It'll tell them just what's fixing to happen, and it'll be that way. Mark it down and see if it isn't that way. Now, that's--the patient's doing that.

L-7-1 Now, I might give this just in a little amateur form so that you'd understand. Say there--there's a great big... We're all little boys and girls, and we are down at the--back in boyhood time, and there's just a great big fence here, and there's a carnival on the inside. And I--I--I just happened to be a little taller than you. Maybe you're stronger than I am, but I'm taller. See, God makes people different ways for different works. Well then, way up here, just about where I can look through, there's a hole in the wall. Well now, I can get ahold of the top, because I reach a little higher, and could pull up on my fingers, and look through this hole; I can come back and tell you what I saw. You get the idea? Now, you follow me?

L-7-2 Now, now, maybe the next man, he's stronger, but he can't see that tall. So he says, "Brother Branham, what do you see?"
I'll say, "Just a moment," and I'll leap up real high, and catch my fingers over the edge, and pull myself up real heavy; and I'll say, "I--I--I see an elephant," and I come down. See? It's strenuous, because I'm lifting up. I'm saying this like in a parable so you'll be sure to understand.
Now, when I come back down, "What'd you see?"
"An elephant." See?
All right, now that's like the person standing on the platform a-using the Divine gift. As it's a strain, because the person themself is operating that gift. They're not conscious of it, but they are operating it themself.

L-7-5 Now, I was told last night that there was a man standing on the platform (Brother Joseph told me after he met me.), that the man was... I... First when he come up, that I thought he was deaf and dumb. I said, "Howdy do, sir?" something on that order. (I may not quote it back right. I'm taking what they told me. I've never heard the tape yet.) And said the man just stood there, and I said, "Well, maybe he's deaf and dumb."
And now, watch sovereign grace. See? That's like the maniac at the platform. That's like the witch doctor in Africa standing there with bones in his fingers to give you a challenge. You see? Grace takes ahold then. You don't have to worry...?... There's not a worry about it. Grace takes ahold.


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