<TITLE>12. Par 47-49</TITLE>L-47 What? X, 1 to a 100. What was it last night. H? [Brother Branham speaks to someone--Ed.] They gave X's tonight, prayer card X. Last night was H's. Tonight's X. Hold your H's, we'll get you up here just as quick as we can. When we give a group of cards out, we're waiting for the weather to get a nice group in here and everything, so we could start, really having a regular prayer lines the way we want to have them. Now, but now we're just holding on.
How many's never been in one of the meetings before, let's see your hands? How many's never been in one of my meetings? Just look. Is this...?... I do not claim to be a healer, my Christian friends. I'm not a healer, but here's my contention, that I contend that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He raised from the dead. He's not dead; He's alive. And when He was here on earth, the works that He did, He promised He would do again in the last days: "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do... (Saint John 14:7.) He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also." He said, "A little while and world sees Me no more, yet, you shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, till the end of the world. The works that I do..." What kind of works did He do?

L-48 He said, "He did not heal people." How many knows that? "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. And the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing."
That's the reason when He went and got Nathanael and brought Him to Him, the Jew... He so When Philip went and got him, he said, found him under a tree, and he said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come, see."
Maybe that's what many of the sinners thought tonight, "I'll go see. I'll find out." That's the best way to do. Come find out.
And when Philip, on the road back, had told him what... no doubt, but what when Peter come, Which was... First he wasn't Peter; he was Andrew and a... or Simon, rather. And then when he--on his road... He was Andrew's brother. And when he come up to him, He'd never seen him before, He said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to call you, Cephas." Which is "Peter," "a little stone." And He said, "Your father is Jonas." That startled him.
That was Jesus yesterday. He's got to be Jesus today, if He's the same. Is that right? All right.

L-49 Then this Philip, of the same city of Bethesda, went over and found his friend, and his name was Nathanael. He said, "Come, see Who I found." He was under a tree praying when he found him. Said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, and see." On the road around, he no doubt told him what had been taking place.
When he walked up in the front of Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." He could've been a Arab; he could've been a Greek; they all dress the same, turban and robe. But He said, "You're an Israelite, in whom is no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when--how did You know me? Whence knowest Thou me?"
And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Thirty miles around the mountain... That was Jesus yesterday.
What did this Jew say, this real true Jew? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe?"
What did the Jew say, the real orthodox stiffy? He said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, a devil."
Jesus said, "I forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, it'll never be forgiven you to speak against it. It's blaspheming of the Holy Ghost."


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