<TITLE>05. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 And now we see Him setting at the right hand of God, making intercessions upon our profession, or the same word is translated, "confession." And no matter how much you pray, how much you cry, how much you agonize, how much you do, it'll never be accepted. God can do nothing for you until first by faith you accept it, and believe it, and confess it. See?
That's the only way God can act now is when you act first, 'cause He's a High Priest making intercessions on your confession of your faith in His finished work. I don't believe there's anyone could find fault with that. See? That's the basis of Divine healing.

L-20 Now, brethren, there may be someone here who doesn't believe in Divine healing, that doesn't teach it. Well, now, I--I certainly don't agree with you on--on your--on your views. But I--I feel sorry for you for the--the great blessings that you could have by believing the full Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, if you could only just accept it upon the basis of the Word.
Sometime ago, a man told me, a young Baptist minister had just graduated... And Charles Fuller and several other men, and Stuart Hamblen, I believe it was. They was all had their pictures taken in the studio there. And I was having the service in this city. And I... They asked me down. They wanted to take some pictures. And they tried to get my manager away because they know that I didn't have any education. And my manager was a smart man.

L-21 So as soon as they got him away, promising to have me there, then the man said to me; he said, "Mr. Branham, as a man, I admire you. But your theology on Divine healing," he said, "I do not believe it."
I said, "Well, that wasn't given to unbelievers. It was only give to believers."
And he said--he said, "Well," he said, "do you preach Divine healing on the basis of the atonement?"
I said, "Every redemptive blessing was included in the atonement." See? It has to be.
He said, "Then, yeah, you mean over there in Isaiah where it said He..."
I said, "Exactly, that's right."
"Well," he said, "I believe you're honest enough. If I would prove to you by the Scripture," said, "surely, that you would accept it if the Scriptures would claim that that was done away with."
I said, "If the Scriptures claimed it, yes, sir."
And he said, "Well, if I'll prove it."
I said, "All right, sir."

L-22 He said, "In Matthew 8, they brought to Jesus the sick and the afflicted. And He healed them that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet Isaiah. He bore our infirmities and took our diseases." He said, "You see, it was fulfilled right there, Brother Branham."
"Well," I said, "brother, I--I was expecting something better than that." I said, "I believe my--my little boy could've give me a--a better one than that." I said, "If that be so, that was a year and six months before the atonement was ever made, 'fore Jesus was crucified." Then, I said, "Then the atonement had more power before it was enforced than it is when it's in force." I said, "That won't work."
And so, then he started off on some of those great big words, that I couldn't understand. And I said, "I've been with the Pentecostal people a long time, but I don't have the gift of interpretation." I said, "I understand it just the way it's written here in the Bible. You talk King James to me and then we'll understand."

L-23 So I said... He kept on saying different things. I said, "Well, now, brother, I want to ask you something." I said, "Do you--will you believe that, saying, leaving aside the atonement, do you believe it was in the Word? Like Mark 11:24, 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe...'"
Oh, he said, "It's in the Word." That's when he hung hisself. See? He said, "It was in the Word."
I said, "But not in the atonement?"
"That's right."
I said, "Oh, brother. You mean that God put it in the New Testament here that whatsoever included anything?"
"Yes, that's right. And other Scriptures in the New Testament."


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