<TITLE>16. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 Now, I want you, as soon as healing service is over, the prayer for the sick, I want you to come up here and stand around the altar when we make the altar call, and offer thanks to God, that the people here can see that you've accepted Jesus as your Saviour. For He said, "If you'll confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels." May the Lord bless you.
Now, we're going to call a prayer line. Just before we do this, I might say this: We're late, not... A little late, not too late, we're never late. Peter, I believe, preached the Holy Ghost Gospel all night long. A man fell, killed himself. He laid his body over him, and life come back. I believe God.

L-59 Now, as for... If there be any strangers here who's never been in the meetings before, I do not profess to be a healer. And any man that professes to be a healer--he's a healer all right (See?), but not of God. For there is no healing except Divine healing. There's no medicine that'll heal. I've never had a real doctor to tell me that it is.
Mayo Brothers, when I had the interview... You read the miracle of Donny Morton, and--and that issue of "Reader's Digest," "The Miracle of Donny Morton." I was called in. And they said, "We do not profess to be healers. We only profess to assist nature. There's one Healer, and that's God. We could not build tissue. But we could keep a place clean while God builds the tissue." That's doctors, real doctors. See? A doctor can set a bone, but he can't heal it. God has to.

L-60 Someone said to me one time. "What about penicillin killing the cold germ?"
I said, "Did you ever have a house full of rats? You put out rat poison? They're eating up your house? The rat poison kills the rats, but it don't patch the holes. That's what penicillin does. It kills the germ, but it doesn't heal, 'cause God is the only Healer there is. Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases." Doctors take their own medicine and die. God's the Healer. So, healing, as far as God was concerned, when Jesus died at Calvary, "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed." Is that right?
Then you say, "I was saved five minutes ago, Brother Branham." No, you wasn't, sister, brother. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago; you just accepted it five minutes ago. See? That's right.

L-61 Your healing... This young man on the cots and the stretchers, and--and these little children in braces, and--and you with heart trouble, and--and diseases, you were healed nineteen hundred years ago. The only thing you have to have is faith to accept it.
And if you was a sinner, God didn't come down and save you just a few minutes ago. It was you come and got saved by believing, accepting what He done for you. Now, no one can heal. God is the Healer, and it's already did. It's just to prove your faith in God. It's called "Faith healing," your healing.
Now, God is a good... He sends His Word. If you won't believe His Word, then He puts in the Church five different offices: First, apostle, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. They are for the perfecting of the Church. And in each local body, He put nine spiritual gifts in the local body. That's gifts that goes from one to the other. But these are ordained and predestinated of God. Gifts and callings are without repentance. You know that? Sure they are. Now, then God sets them in the Church.


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