<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 And the stamp collector begins to work on the stamp. A few weeks later, he sold it for five hundred dollars. And then a little after that, it was sold for about three thousand dollars. And now, they say it's worth a quarter of a million dollars.
You see? It wasn't the little yellow paper, because you wouldn't even have picked it up if it was on the street. But what made it so valuable, was what was wrote on that little yellow paper.
And that's the way with this tonight; it's just a piece of paper, not very valuable paper, but it's what's wrote on it that's so much value, because it is the Word of God. And all heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall never pass away.
A man is just as good as his word. You're just as good as your word. I'm just as good as my word. If I can't take your word, I want no dealings with you. I want you to be the same to me, and we must be the same to God. If He can't keep His Word, then I want to know Who is God, that can keep His Word. So He said, "Have faith in God." So little...

L-15 Faith, why, it's the most common thing there is. You can't even get a drink of water without faith. You couldn't come to this meeting without faith. You cannot move your finger without faith. It's said in the Scripture that when they put the Blood on the lintel of the door, for the passover in Egypt, it was put on the hyssop. Do you know what hyssop is? Hyssop is common weed. You can just find it anywhere. And that's the way the Blood is to be applied to the heart's door, tonight, is by something common, faith.
We try to press it out, and make it something, that no one can take a hold of. It's so simple, that you go over the top of it, trying to find it. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," said the writer of Hebrews the 11th chapter, 1st verse.

L-16 Now, it is the substance of things hoped for. Now, it's not just imagination; it's something you have. For instance, if I was starving to death, and you come to me, and you said, "What will save your life?"
I'd say to you, "One loaf of bread."
And you'd say, "Mr. Branham, here's twenty-five cents." That twenty-five cents is the purchasing power of a loaf of bread.
Well, when I got that twenty-five cents, I could rejoice. You gave me the purchase power of the loaf of bread. Now, I haven't got the bread; the twenty-five cent is not the bread, but it is the purchasing power of the bread. And when I've got the purchasing power, it's just as good as having the bread.
Now, that's the way it is by faith. People look out and say, "I haven't got faith enough for my crippled hand." If you had faith, you wouldn't even look at your crippled hand. See? Faith is the substance of things hoped for.

L-17 Now, I can be just as happy with the twenty-five cents as I could with the loaf of bread, because I've the got the thing that buys the loaf of bread, and as soon as I get to the market, I've got a loaf of bread.
And faith is the thing that brings my healing, and no matter how long it takes me to get to that place, I've got the faith that's going to do it, as soon as I get there. You get it?
Now, I can be just as happy with the quarter, as I can with the bread. And when down in your heart, you believe that God has healed you, just as--just as real as you believe you got strength to walk out that door, or just as well as the sight--sense of sight says that shirt's white, it's finished. There's nothing can take it away from you, because it's gone beyond intellectual; it's gone to your heart. It's real faith.


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