<TITLE>14. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 Watch Him in Saint John 5:19 walk to a pool. There lay great multitudes, thousands of people laying there lame, halt, withered, blind, waiting for the moving of the water. Here He comes a few days after this happened. Here He walks through that crowd. There was the lame, halt, blind, withered, walked right through them, looked around till He found a man laying on a pallet.
Now, you Southerners all know what a pallet is. I was raised on one, so quilt at the door (all right), keep cool.
And there, laying on this pallet, He found a man. He might've had prostate trouble. He might've had TB. Whatever it was, it was retarded. He'd had it thirty-eight years, it wasn't going to kill him. And Jesus passed all the rest of them by and went to that one man, and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" How many knows that's the Scripture, Saint John the 5th chapter?

L-51 Watch. How did He know it? Because He knew he had been this way for a long time. God had showed Him where to go. Now, when He was questioned of it, Saint John 5:19, think of it now, 5:19, when they was questioning Him, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." How many knows that's Scripture? All right.
What is it? He never did one miracle, never performed one thing until God the Father showed Him what to do, and God the Father was in Him. "A little while and the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you do also. Lo, I am with you always." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever...
If for healing, it's already purchased. Far as salvation, every redemptive blessing that it was included for you in the atonement, is yours by faith.

L-52 A minister could preach the Word. I'm not a preacher. The minister could preach the Word, and he could make it so plain to you till you'd accept it like that. Then God's good.
And if you couldn't take my word for it, that would be enough, but not God. No. He moves every stone that can be moved to see if He can get you to believe. Then He sends His Spirit into us. Sometimes it works in different ways. He sends It into...?... to reveal Himself.
And its never too...?... the vision...?... anywhere, has it been revealed in this manner until today. What happened? It...?... You say, "Well, Brother Branham, that wasn't...?... here or there." It'd never even make the newspaper. Why? It never did in the Bible time. It never did in the days of the saints. It never did. But God taken the truth just the same. When it's all over, then say, "Well, I didn't know it." See? You... "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." That's right. True.

L-53 Now, I pray, friends, that you'll understand that Jesus [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] is the same as He was then. He will work in you just like He worked in Christ in that day. God will. He will work through any member of His body.
Now, all of us can't do the same thing. Some's eyes, nose, ears, you know how it is, how the Scripture says, I Corinthians 12, some prophesy, some do one thing, some do another. But that's the gift of the Spirit working in the church, the body.
And Christ has raised from the dead. Now, if He will come in this building, audible, that you can see His Word, doing the same as He did yesterday in that day, as I told you, and you know that's the Scripture. If that was the sign that He did to prove He was Messiah to both--to both the Hebrews and to the Samaritans, He's obligated to do that to the Gentiles. How many knows that? The Bible says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let us pray.


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