<TITLE>13. Par 51-55</TITLE>L-51 Before He left the earth... Our time won't permit me go further. But before He left the earth He said, "The works that I do, shall you do also," the same thing. "Yet a little while and the world won't see Me no more." That's the world's order. See? "The world won't see Me, yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you (How long?) to the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
One more little Scripture. I'll quote it quickly. Saint John 5, the next page over, the 19th verse, when He passed by many crippled people, healed one man laying on a pallet. He knew that that man had been that way for many years. See? He knew he'd been that way. He healed him and walked away and left great multitudes of lame, blind, halt, laying there. What? Yes, left them there.

L-52 And what happened? Why, they questioned Him about the man packing his bed on the Sabbath and so forth. And Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself: but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He will do the same today.
There was a little woman who had no vision, but she had a leading, and she went down to where Jesus was at at the seashore. She had a blood issue. She touched His garment, for she said in her heart, "If I would touch Him, I'll be made whole." She goes back amongst her, the people, sets down or however she was. She might've stood up however it was.

L-53 Jesus turned and said, "Who touched Me?" Now, He didn't know. That was Jesus speaking, the Son. "Somebody touched Me."
And Peter rebuked Him and said, "Well, all is touching You. Why do You say, 'Who touched Me?'"
He said, "But I--but I've gotten weak."
The word "virtue" means "strength." "Virtue went from Me, or My strength went from Me. Somebody touched Me." That was the Son of God.
Well, you say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I wished I'd have lived in that day. I'd liked to have touched Him." This is that day. "Is that Scriptural, Brother Branham?" Absolutely. The Bible said that, "He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities."

L-54 How would you ever know you touched Him, if there wasn't something the come back and told you? See, faith is not something that... It's not a myth. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence that something's happened of things not seen. It's not just--just a make belief, and say, "Well, oh, yes. Hallelujah, I got it." That's been too much in you Pentecostal people to begin with. You're rejoicing about something that you don't have.
Faith is absolutely a substance. It's not a hope. Hope isn't--hope isn't... Faith is the substance of things hoped for. But when faith takes it, it becomes the substance that you hope for (See?), the evidence of things not seen.

L-55 One of the managers, Dr. Vayle and I was arguing that for an hour and a half the other day. He tried to say hope and faith is the same thing. I said, "No, hope is what you're looking for, and faith is what you got by hoping." That's right. Certainly. It's not a hope any longer when you've got it. It's yours. It's in possession; you got it just as happy as you can be, for it is the substance of things hoped for.
Now, this little woman said within her heart; her faith said, "If I can touch Him, it'll satisfy me." Amen. Oh, I wish we could have that faith in Newark tonight. "If I can touch Him..." Could you do it? Yes, He's a high priest, ever liveth to make intercession, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Touch Him and find out whether it's right or not. See if we're just saying this to be standing here. See if the Word's right. If that's not right, how--where are you. What hope could you build yourself in?


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