<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 Now, we're at this carnival. There's a great big high wall around. We haven't got any money. We can't get in. So it happen to be, we're walking around the side and wondering what all, how many animals was on the inside. We can hear in there, the--the lions a roaring, the tigers, and giraffes, and so forth, and we're listening to them.
And after while, I find way up here there's a knot hole. Well, maybe you never reach that knot hole, but I'm tall enough. God made me tall enough that I could reach up real high, get just the end of my fingers over the boards of the fence, and I can pull on my fingers until I can just look through the knot hole and let back down.
Oh, the parade's passing by. And you say, "What did you see, Brother Branham?"
"A giraffe."
"Oh, you did?"
"Uh-huh."
"All right. What else is in there, Brother Branham?"
Oh, my. See? All right, here I go again. I jump up and grab the end of my fingers, and I pull again real hard; I look through this knot hole.
"What do you see, Brother Branham?"
"An elephant." See? "Oh, I'm so tired."
Now, that's what the meeting is here. When I'm standing before you, it's you operating that gift, and that's what makes me weak. See? It sets one thing at a time. When you--when you're standing there, and your faith's a moving, it's--it's God speaking as you are pulling from the gift of God. The desire of your heart is coming through by the gift of God.
Now, perhaps, the--the circus man comes by and say, "Hey, fellow, what are you doing? I want to show you something?"
"Yes, sir."

L-18 And he picks me up by the back of the coat, lifts me up, and he said, "You see this elephant coming near; he's going down here, he's going to go over here; he's going to do this; and he's going to do this; and he's going to do this; and over there?"
"Yes, sir, I understand. That's just the way it's going to be," sets me down. That don't make me tired; he's holding me up. Now, in that manner it's God using His gift.
Now, look, what was a greater miracle than Lazarus being raised from the dead, or the woman who touched His garment? Now, the woman, she said within herself, "If I can only touch His garment, I will be made well." So she climbs through the crowd, Jesus knowing nothing about it, and she touched His garment, and went back. Now, what was she doing? She was pulling through Him, you see what I mean? Pulling through Him, the gift of God, through the man. See? She pulled from Him, 'cause God was in Him, and she was pulling from Him the--what she desired. Her faith was a doing it. And when Jesus said, "I got weak; somebody touched Me."
They said, "Everybody's touching You."

L-19 Said, "Yes, but I got weak." And He looked around and seen where it was at, and He seen the woman. And He said, told her about it. She denied it first, when He asked, "Who done it?" She denied it. They all denied it. But He said... He told her that she was the one done it, and her faith had made her whole.
Now, see, that made Him weak. But when the Father had showed Him that Lazarus was going to die, and sent Him away from home, and they sent for Him to come pray for Lazarus, He just went on, somewhere else.
What if your pastor would do that? See?

L-20 Then He went on, asked again, and He still went on. Then when the amount of days was that the Father had showed Him (which He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him.), He said, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep."
They said, "He doeth well." See, that... He had to tell them in their own language then.
He said, "He's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." The Father had showed Him. Watch Him stand at the grave, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me already, but I say this for those--the sake of those who stands around." There's no virtue nor nothing. God was using His gift there.
And the woman was using His gift here. Do you get it now?


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