<TITLE>02. Par 6-8</TITLE>L-6 All right. I want you to come here, sir, the usher. There is a man standing before me with a brown coat on; kind of a purple looking shirt; he has dark hair; brown trousers. How many believes that? I see him. My sense of sight is the only thing that declares that he's there. Just a little closer. Now I do not see him, but he's still there. Would you like to argue with me that he isn't there? You'd have a hard time convincing me. But I know he's there just the same as if I was looking at him, because I have another sense and that is feeling. It's just as active as sight is. I know it; they didn't change men on me. You know why? He had a wrist watch on his left hand and there it is. See? I saw it with my eyes, now I feeled it with my hand. So it is not an evidence that you cannot... Or the sight evidence is not the only evidence that there is. Thank you, sir.

L-7 Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, taste, felt, smelt, nor heard. You believe it. When your faith says that you're going to be healed, just as positive as your sight says that shirt's white; that's all of it. You don't have to worry no more, because it's already finished. There's nothing in the world could ever take it out of your heart. No matter what anyone said, if I told you that shirt was red, and you're not color blind, you would say... You would argue; you'd say it's white. I'd say, "It's red," but you trust your sight.
You'd say, "It is white, Brother Branham."
"How do you know?"
"My sight says so."
Then, if you believe that you're going to be healed tonight, regardless of what your trouble is, and your faith tells you that you're going to be healed, just as plain as your eyesight says that's white, you wouldn't never have to come to a prayer line; it's all over. There's nothing in the world to keep you from being healed.

L-8 Now, faith is a substance. It's like this. Perhaps, what if I had... Well, you found me somewhere starving to death, and I told you I was hungry. And one loaf of bread would save my life, and you'd reach into your pocket and give me twenty-five cents, say, "Here, Brother Branham. You don't have to starve; I'll give you twenty-five cents to get a loaf of bread." Now, I'd be just as happy with the twenty-five cents as I would be if I had the bread. Why? I've got the purchase power of the loaf of bread in my possession. Now, I cannot eat the twenty-five cents, but the twenty-five cents will buy the bread. And now, faith is the twenty-five cents. If you've got the faith in your heart, you're just as happy with the faith that your crippled hand will move, as you would be if you were moving it, because it's--the faith is the purchasing power of your healing.
Now maybe with the twenty-five cents, I'd be just as hungry as I was before I received the twenty-five cents. And I might have to go several miles before I could get the loaf of bread. I might have to go through the briar patch; up over the mountain; cross over the bridge; wade through the water. But all the time I'm going, I'm rejoicing because I've got the purchasing power of that loaf of bread.


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