<TITLE>08. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 Now, if you've never had the Holy Spirit, no man can even call Jesus the Christ only by the Holy Spirit. Oh, you say, but you might say, "The preacher said so. I read it in the Bible." That's all true, but you don't know it yourself until you've experienced it. The Bible said that you can't know that Jesus is the Christ only by the Holy Spirit. That's right.
So you see, that's the seed of Abraham. And the same promise that was made to Abraham has been made to you. And Abraham took God at His Word, and what God said, Abraham called every other thing wrong and was against hope. There wasn't even a hope, yet believed in hope, and called those things which were not as though they were, because God said so.
Now, if you're dying with a cancer, if you're blind, if you're crippled, or whatever you have, God promised to heal. And accept His Word and call those things... You say, "I ain't any better." Quit looking at that. The seed of Abraham don't look at--at the condition. They look at Who said the Word. God said so.

L-33 People take symptoms, always looking for, "I--I was prayed for. My hand was crippled; I'm no better." And you'll never be no better as long as you look at your hand.
Here some time ago, I stood by a dying child, been about eight years ago, boy about twelve years old. And the old father sent for me to come, and I said, "Well...?... these meetings."
He said, "Brother Branham, my baby's a dying." And he said, "I'm an old man, my only son." He said, "If you'll come and pray for him, Brother Branham..."
I said, "Well, I'm--I'm just here. I've been--eat a big dinner," and I said, "and under no anointing."
Said, "Just come pray the prayer. I believe in you, Brother Branham." I went down to the hospital, and the doctor said, "Who's this?" And he wouldn't let me in. So I kept talking till him; finally let me go. I said, "The boy's dying. He unconscious, been unconscious two days, sir. I said, "Look..." Now, the boy, the man was a Catholic.
I said, "If I was a priest and he was a--a Catholic boy, would you let me in and give him a last right?"
He said, "Well, that's different."
I said, "No, it's not. Not a bit different. We believe, and this old men believes that if I pray for his boy, he'd get well."

L-34 Said, "Go on." So he sent me back there, and we got down there beside the bed; the boy's unconscious. I laid hands upon him and said, "Heavenly Father, this man has believed You, and I come just as a witness that I believe with him to lay my hands upon the boy in commemoration of Your Word, saying, 'If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.' I believe You, Lord. He believes You. Now, we commit it to You."
And the old fellow raised up crying. He run across and grabbed his wife. He kissed her, said, "Oh, honey, isn't it wonderful?"
She said, "Oh, dear, it's so wonderful." The little nurse standing there scratching her head. She said, "How can you all act like that and this boy dying?"
Well, the old men wiped the tears from his eyes and he said, "Madam, the boy's not dying."
Oh, she said, "Sir, he is dying." And it's some kind of a--something. He had black diphtheria and this one... That's the reason he didn't want me to go in, because afraid I'd pack diphtheria to my boy, and my own child. And I said, "If I had that kind of faith, I ain't got no business in here anyhow."
So I said, "Just let me in; I'll take responsibility for that."


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