<TITLE>11. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 Why are you here? If you're here as a real believer, and you're setting here wanting to serve the Lord, God's obligated. And you could not have that desire in your heart, unless God created it in there. You used to didn't do that, but God created it Himself. Each one of you, maybe there's sick people here, say, "I wished I could be healed, Brother Branham. I been suffering with a stomach trouble for years, or a headache, or something like that."
God's here to do that. See, it--it's not God; it's you. See, He--He's here to do it. His Word is real, if you could just lay hold of it and say, "That's truth." The reason it is... See, the reason that you was saved so easily is, sometimes then you are healed, is because you was elected before the foundation of the world.
Your name was put in the Lamb's Book of Life, and that strain as a son and daughter of God, still hold on you. Oh, you got in...?... yet you kept scratching your head and wondering, "You know I ought to do that. There's something I--well I--I'll do it a little later." Finally it rolled around; there you was.
Now, healing is included in this. You believe in healing or you wouldn't come to hear about it. Now, if you could lay a hold on it just the same way you did for your salvation, you'd get the same results: got to.

L-39 Now, the law having a shadow of good things to come, can never make the worshiper perfect. Now, why couldn't it? Because there was nothing there to perfect him with. The law was a shadow. In the Old Testament when they went to make a offering, the man brought a lamb. He took it up there, and he--he confessed his sins, put his hands upon the head of the lamb, and told God that he was sorry for what he done.
The priest cut the lamb's throat, the jugular vein here, and the little fellow begin kicking, bleeding, dying, his hands was bathed all over with blood, and he felt the quivering and pain of that little lamb, laying there suffering. He kept his eye on it; it shaked and suffered, and shaked and suffered like that. And he'd think, "That ought to be me. What a horrible fellow I am?"

L-40 Now watch, then the man went right out of there, not perfect; he couldn't be. Because when he did, he went out of there with the same desire in his heart to go do the same thing that he did when he went in there, still had the same... Why did he have the same desire? Because, why? The blood cell had been broke in the lamb, which was a shadow of the Lamb of God.
Now, when that blood cell was broke and bursted open, the life that was in that blood cell, or in the li--or the lamb, which consisted... Coming from one blood cell, it all come back to one master blood cell, that was from the germ, which was the pollen from the fe--from the male. And when that blood cell was broken, and this life was separated here, the life that was in that blood cell could not come back on the worshiper. No, sir.
Because how could a animal without a soul, how could the spirit of a brute come back and coincide with a human spirit? It couldn't do it, 'cause it didn't have no soul; it was an animal. Now, but when a worshiper...


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