<TITLE>04. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 "He must have some connection somewhere with Jehovah, must be somewhere around Him or in Him. For no one could do that unless God was with Him. And this Man that the people thinks is a fanatic, I'm more convinced then ever that He is Jehovah's Son or He could not do those things, because He's doing the very same things that Jehovah done. And can you remember Him saying too, that 'If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not.'"
That's how a man is vindicated. That's how a Christian is known, is by the life you live, and the works that you do.

L-14 Someone said to me (I believe it was last evening) said, "Brother Branham, where does this come from? How are you able to go meeting after meeting, staying under the anointing, and... Even one sign made Jesus weak when the woman touched His garment." Said, "I see you stand for a hour under that."
I said, "I'd like to tell you. Here's where it lays: he don't want me to say this, but my brother setting here, Gene Goad, that boy don't touch bread or water for days, fasting and praying. Here sets Pat Tyler, this other brother setting here by him. Them men lay on their faces without food and water when I'm in a meeting, praying for me. That's where it comes from. If there wasn't something like that, I'd go down."
That's the men behind the curtain. The man who prays for strength for a message, that they lay down everything. Maybe they haven't got the gifts to do those things, but they're putting every effort they can to support it. And the only way they can do it they know, is prayer before God and fasting. There's where power lays: let someone pray for you.

L-15 I can hear John say, "When I looked upon His face, it seemed to be there the very look of Jehovah. And I'm sure that He is connected with God, aw, because He does the same kind of works. Tell me whenever bread was ever created outside of the hand of God. So it must be Jehovah."
Then it must have been the big fisherman, Peter, who liked to talk anyhow. Might've shook his head and said, "You know, when Andrew here, my beloved brother, who's been a partner and fisher with me here on the sea for many years--when he attended that wild man's meeting, they call him John, dressed with a piece of sheepskin wrapped around him. And he'd come tell me that this prophet spoke of a coming Messiah that was to be at hand. One day he run in frantically, and said, 'Simon, today it happened.'"
"What happened?" I said to him.
"He's come, Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah God."
"Oh, now wait a minute, Andrew. What's this preacher got you all stirred up about?"
"I was standing at the river, when I seen a young Man walking down to the bank (in His thirties), and walked out into the river, and was baptized by John. And when He come up out of the water, I saw a light like a star coming down from the heavens. It looked to me like that same Pillar of Fire that our people followed through the wilderness to this land. And when it come close to Him, it took like wings like a dove. And it settled upon Him, and a voice came out of that Pillar of Fire saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in.'"
Oh, I'll never forget it, Andrew." And he put his arm around him, pulled him over to him.
"And then I went with him, and I thought, 'I'll see this most unusual Man. He's a... Must be an extra ordinary Character, because I know that my brother here is not a fanatic by a long ways. He saw something in that Man that was different, or he wouldn't be excited like that.'"
"So I remember, on the days on the lake here with my old Pharisee father before he died."


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