<TITLE>09. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 Elijah didn't do that. When Elijah had the first little, bitty sign, he raised up and said, "Hallelujah, so much... Rope up the rain barrels, get up and see. I hear the sound of the abundance of rain." Amen.
If I can wiggle my finger, "Hallelujah. Get my crutches out from under me; here I come. Doctor, I'll pay you my bill; I don't need it any more. Thank you, doctor, for all you done, but I won't need your service any more. I hear the sound of the abundance of rain. Yes, sir. She's coming down the rain pipe right now, and I'm going to stay right at the spout, and get ever bit of it." See? Oh, he was ready.
How quick unbelief catches a hold and perhaps the father... That's the reason he said, "If thou can, if thou can do anything for us." All right.
Now, Jesus walked over to him to get in conversation, like He did the woman at the well, said, "How long has the child been that way?"
"Oh," he said, "since a youth." One time looking into them eyes, something come over him. Then he said, "Have compassion on us."

L-32 When he once looked in the face of Jesus, he could tell that wasn't no mental telepathy. He could tell that there was something about that Person that no one else had.
And any man or woman that ever looks the cross in the face... The other day... I got an old cross hanging on my windshield out there. I don't know how many has said to me, "Brother Branham, that looks like a Catholic cross."
When did the Catholics ever have the option on the cross? When did the cross ever become an emblem of Catholic faith? Cross is an emblem of the Christian faith, not Catholic. No, sir.
Said, "Why do you have it hanging there?" Some fellow riding with me, coming down from Sellersburg, kind of tearing me up. They like to do that somehow. I don't mind it, as long as they don't tear at Him.

L-33 Said, "Then why is it hanging up there?"
I said, "You know why? Every time that I turn my head up here at this country, when summertime comes, there's a naked woman standing in the yard, on the street, or somewhere. I look at the cross. Amen. I'd rather look at that." He never said no more.
I said, "Now, I see where I was redeemed. In there I see His stripes, I was healed. Once I was blind, I had no eyes where I could look with, and I promised Him if He'd heal me, I'd look at the right thing. And I know that's the right thing to look at. I look to Calvary. It's a memorial to me, that my Lord died, He healed me. And there on that cross was where He forgave my sin. There on that cross where He took all my worries away from me, on that cross, He healed me with His stripes. "I said, "I look at that, turn my head, look at the cross." All right. Depends on what you're looking at. That has a whole lot to do with it. Look at the cross one time, see how much different.

L-34 Now, when this man looked in the face of the Lord Jesus, He was anointed. He was the anointed God. Here He was standing there, the anointed Man, God in the Man. And when he did, there was something caught the man...?... He said, "Have compassion on us." Now, he's on the right grounds. He's coming on the grounds of pleading mercy. He's coming to the mercy seat. And that's the only way you'll ever get anything from God, is come to the mercy seat, not judgment, not upon self, but upon the mercies of God.
Now, he's on the grounds for healing. There's no "if" in it. He's placed it on Jesus now. Watch. No more, "Sir," now he says something different. It's Jesus then places it right back on him. He said, "Oh, canst thou believe? Can you turn Pastor, Rabbi Jones down over here? Can you cast all this doubt away from you? Canst thou now believe?"


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