<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Now, the cancer, when the life goes out of it, the patient is relieved. The cataract, whatever it is, it shrinks for, oh, a few--few days, maybe anywhere within three days and nights. That's the reason Jesus' body couldn't lay three days and nights in the grave, because David said, "I'll not ho--suffer My holy One to see corruption." Not one cell would corrupt; corruption sets in. That's the reason some people say, "Oh, He never laid in the grave. He died on Friday afternoon and rose up Sunday morning."
But within that three days and nights He knowed He was coming forth, 'cause one prophecy, one Word in the Bible by a prophet, said, "I'll not suffer My holy One to see corruption." And He knew within that seventy-two hours corruption would set in; and sometime between there, God would bring Him out.
Just think of that, when you got six hundred and something promises in the New Testament for Divine healing. Just think of it; you can't... Hard to believe it, isn't it?

L-16 But anyhow, when this growth is dead, it shrinks. The patient rejoices, oh, how happy. In a few days they find themselves worse off then they was in the first place. "Oh, well," they say, "I guess I lost my healing." And just as sure as faith taken it away, unbelief resurrects it again. Then it's really on the move.
But when you get sick after about seventy-two hours, you're supposed to: a dead ball of flesh in your body. What purifies the blood? The heart purifies the body--the blood, and it... heart pumps it, cause an infection, causes fever, and eve--all kinds of feelings and sickness. After seventy-two hours, if you've been prayed for with cancer, tumor, or anything, and you begin to get real sick and a high fever, that's one of the best signs in the world that you're healed. Just keep on...
See, your faith is not what you feel; your faith is what you believe. If you really believe it, I don't care how you feel, you'd never, never say you wasn't healed. You'd always believe it. That's what does it. See?

L-17 That's what happens here at the platform when I have healing services. Hundreds of people that way, they come to the platform, "Oh, Brother Branham, I got all faith." If it was ink it wouldn't dot an "i." See, you got hope instead of faith. Faith is positive. There's no, nothing can move it; it's positive. No matter how sick you got, how everything went, noth... Now, if you're trying to bluff it, it won't take bluffing. The devil's not... He's a bluff himself, and he knows how to run a bluff. But when you got the goods, it don't take loud hollering, don't take stomping and screaming; it takes faith. He will recognize it. Don't worry, just say the word.
Look at the disciples down there, what they all were doing over this child, probably was trying to shake it and everything else. But Jesus said, "Come out of it." That settled it. That devil recognized that was faith. See? Not quantity, it's quality. See? Bodily exercise profit little. You don't have to run around over the floor. Which I don't blame anybody from getting healed from running, screaming, shouting. You say, "You believe in shouting, Brother Branham?" Absolutely, yes sir. Don't think that. I'm one Baptist that believes in shouting. And I believe...


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