<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Thank you very much for praying for those handkerchiefs. And now, let's go straight to the Word. I love the Word, don't you? I wish I just had have little more throat. Maybe tomorrow afternoon if I don't strain too much tonight, I'll speak to you a little while afternoon on a Gospel subject.
Tonight I thought I would just give just a little preliminary, and maybe see what the Lord will do for us in prayer for the sick. Now, in Saint John the 12th chapter, the 37th verse we read this, beginning at the 37th and reading down to the 40th inclusive:
 But though He had done so many miracles before them, they yet believed not on Him:
What is a miracle? It's something that cannot be explained. 38th verse:
 That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which He spake the, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,
 He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, or understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
They couldn't because the prophet had said. Now, another place I have chosen is in Saint John the 10th chapter and the 37th verse and 38th:
 If I do not the works of My Father (said Jesus), believe Me not.
 But if I do, though you believe not Me, believe the works: that you may know, and believe, that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.

L-31 And may He add His blessing to the reading of His Word. Now, coming to this thought, that we are faced tonight in this age with a--a supernatural move of the living God; and of course, we realize that we have many things. And to you Presbyterian, Catholic, Methodist, there's no doubt that you have heard of many fanaticisms, which we have that. We'll admit that; it's hooked in everything. I seen fanatic Presbyterians; I've seen fanatic Baptists; I've seen fanatic Catholics; I've seen fanatic Pentecostals; I've seen fanatic Divine healing; I've seen impersonations of supernatural.
But what does it all speak of? Of a real one. That all means that there's a real one it's made off of. Now, there is a true and living God, and He's duty bound to His Word. And now, being that the ministry...
I never got no education, and so He gave me another way by sovereign grace to minister to His people, and that was through visions. Now, I thought tonight that I would take a few moments and explain by the Scripture, and so forth, "What Visions Are."

L-32 What is a vision? Someone has asked many times, "Brother Branham, are you impressed to say certain things? Do you just think it in your mind?" No, sir, I see it. It's just there, like I'm looking at you, just the same as you are: only you know you're standing here, yet you may be forty years back in somebody's life, seeing what taken place. Even see them, way they're dressed, positionally, and everything.
And then I have to talk, and when I'm talking, seeing the vision, I'm don't know whether they hear me here, whether I'm loud or not. That's the reason I say to the operator here and every way, if just in this small place where I know you're getting a rebound in this gymnasium room of my voice, whether you really understand it.

L-33 But a--a vision is God, by a word of knowledge, dropping to the person to foresee or forth-see something, tells something that has been, or something that will be.
Now, I'm going to make it real simple. We got little bright eyed children setting here. And if Jesus tarries, that's the men and women of tomorrow. And I think that too many times, that we make the Gospel so complicated, that just maybe the adults and so forth could understand it, and don't realize that those little children get it also.


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