<TITLE>21. Par 83-86</TITLE>L-83 If--if... Someone said the other day, a minister talked to me, said, "Oh, it's such a blessing, Brother Branham. Oh, the--I've seen the most patient people laying in wheelchairs." And said, "God wants them to be sick. He lets them be sick, so He can show His blessings."
I said, "Then, if that's the truth, then Jesus Christ defeated the very purpose of God when He come to earth. He healed every one He come in contact with them, like I do." Right.
Oh, brother, that--that's too thin. See, it just don't work. You just might as well face the fact, that you don't believe the Bible and just say so, and that's all, 'cause... Or either afraid to step out and challenge God to His promise like Elijah did. That's true.

L-84 Now, what is Christ? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And when He was here on earth, He did not claim to be a healer. Did He? No, sir. Said, "It's not Me. It's My Father that dwells in Me. He does the healing." Is that right?
And when He stood there, and they questioned Him about the man of Saint John 5:19, we had last night, packing his bed on his shoulder like this... And He was questioned about it, when He went through all those afflicted people and healed this one man and walked away. He was questioned. And we went through that last night.
How is He questioned here? But what did Jesus say? "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself." Is that right? "But what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." How many Bible readers knows that that's the truth, that Jesus said that?

L-85 Now, Jesus, according to His own Word, did nothing until first He saw a vision of the Father doing it. Is that right? Saint John 5:19, "Verily, verily (that's absolutely, absolutely), I say to you, I do nothing in Myself; but what I see the Father doing, then I go do what He shows Me to do. The Father worketh; I worketh hitherto."
Now, just a moment, then we'll start the prayer line. When He was here on earth, He did not claim to heal the people. The only thing He did, He watched and seen what the Father told Him. And the Father...

L-86 One day Philip went and got Nathanael, thirty miles around the mountain, brought him back to where Jesus was when He was standing. Just one quotation...
And when he come back, Jesus looked and seen them. They might have been in the prayer line or out in the audience, wherever it was. And Jesus looked at them, and He looked at Philip, Nathanael and He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Why, it astonished him. How did He know he was an Israelite, and how did He know he was a believer, an orthodox.
Why, he said, "How did You know me, Rabbi?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree praying yesterday, I saw you."
Now, what did the--what did the Israelite say? He said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe Me? You'll see greater things than this."


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