<TITLE>14. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 Why, Peter rebuked Him. Everybody. "Oh, hello, Master. Are You the great prophet? Or--or I'd like to see You, could I shake Your hand? Would You come with me for dinner? I'd like to have You over to my house. Say, my pastor don't believe on You, but I do." See? But a little woman couldn't even get close enough till she slipped between their feet, and touched His garment, and run back out of there. That's all she wanted to do.
Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
How did He know somebody touched Him? Peter said, he was earthbound too. He said, "Well, the whole crowd's touching You." He rebuked Him.
He said, "I got weak; virtue went from Me."

L-49 What is virtue? Strength. "I got weak; My strength left Me," by one little woman touching the Son of God, with the Fulness of God in Him. I measure it like this. If every bit of water on earth, which almost four fifths of the earth's in water... If every bit of the water on earth represented the Spirit that was in Christ, all that was in Christ, and this little gift here is just a spoonful out of it. You'd never miss it. God don't have to have me, but I have to have Him. But I'm just a little spoonful.
But now, let me show the good of it to you. The same chemicals that's in the entire ocean, is in the spoonful, the same kind of chemicals, just not as much. So the same works that Christ did, the servant does also, because the Life of Christ is in the servant. "I'll go with you and be in you to the end of the world." That's what makes you weak.

L-50 Now, if Christ the virgin born Son of God, with the Fulness of God in Him got weak from a little woman touching Him, how about me a sinner saved by grace. If He didn't stand and hold me, I couldn't stand for one to go by like that.
The great prophet Daniel saw one vision and was troubled at his head for many days. Now do you all beginning to understand? That's what makes weakness. "What does these visions, Brother Branham?" It's you; it's not me. Visions that God... This is a gift of God; it's not mine; it's God's gift.

L-51 My wife said today, said, "Billy, you never stay home. Here we've been married almost fifteen years, and your children hardly know you." Soon as you get the phone, maybe thirty, forty calls a day, "Come here, Brother Branham. Come over here. Come over here." Well, you go wild.
I said, "But, honey, look. My life is not mine, neither is it yours. I'm... God gave me as a gift to the public. I belong to the public."
Now, whatever you do with it, that'll be between you and God. It's not me. I'm a man. But the Spirit that's in here is a public service of God to you. You can receive it or refuse it. Whatever you do with it; that's up to you. You might think it ought to be up in glamor. So would we thought John would've been in glamor, but standing in mud probably to his knees on the banks of Jordan preaching.

L-52 All the prophets spoke what a great time that was, they thought the--the horizontal rainbow would slip down, and a great king would ride down on a horse. What was it? A little common ordinary Man, walking down on the banks of Jordan, being baptized by a man standing there, not even dressed right, piece of sheepskin wrapped around him. The Bible said at that time every low place will be exalted up, and every high place brought down. And when the mountains saw it, they skipped like little rams, and all the hills clap their hands.
What was it? A preacher that was considered a holy-roller, standing out on the bank and baptized a Boy with a illegitimate name, coming down to be baptized. That's when that took place. What the world calls great, God calls foolish. What the world calls foolish, God calls great. See, it depends on where your mind, what you're looking at. Now, let's believe God with all our hearts, with all our mind.
Now, is the prayer line all ready? Number 4 and number 14 hasn't appeared. All right, we give plenty of time. So now, be real reverent and pray.


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