<TITLE>10. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Now remember, before we get to it, Divine healing is not some magic words that someone says over you. Divine healing... Every sick person in here is already healed in the sight of God. He was wounded for our transgression.
You say, "Brother Branham, what do you mean by that?"
All right, sometime I'll say, "How many were saved twenty years ago?" A lot of hands would go up. "How many was saved two years ago?" Lots of hands would go up.
Well, I different with you. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died for you at Calvary. You just accepted it twenty years ago and two years ago. See? That's your salvation. The plan's finished. Jesus said at the cross, "It's finished." The whole plan of man's redemption was finished, and every blessing that he needed in life's journey was completed at the cross. For there "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him; with His stripes we were healed." You believe that? Now, there we are.

L-38 Now, we'll go back then to catch what He was. Now, we find out in Saint John the 1st chapter, there was a fellow named Andrew. We know about His birth, and--and about His preaching of the--going into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And then after forty days, He came back out. And there was a man by the name of Andrew that went and got his brother, Peter, and brought Simon Peter. (Which his name was not that at that time. And his name was Simon, but not Peter. Peter means "a little stone".)
So he brought him into the Presence of the Lord Jesus. His ministry was young now--Saint John the 1st chapter. He brought him to the Lord Jesus, and as soon as Jesus looked at him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father... You're the son of Jonas." Is that right? "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." This illiterate fisherman, who the Scripture says that "He was both ignorant and unlearned." Did you know the Bible said that the first pope, according to the doctrine of the Catholic church, was ignorant and unlearned? The Bible said it. "He was ignorant and unlearned." Saint John 4. And he... I mean Acts the 4th chapter. (I beg your pardon.) And he was both ignorant and unlearned, but they had to take notice he had been with Jesus.

L-39 And as soon as He said that, quickly he recognized Him to be the Son of God. Why? Why did he recognize it? Because... If there's any Jewish people in here, you'll know it; any Bible reader will know it--that the Jews were looking for a Messiah to come. Is that right?
Moses said, "The Lord, your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me."
Is that right? And they knowed this Messiah would be a God prophet that would give the sign of a prophet like Moses was, for that was the prophet they were looking for. And when He said to Simon, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas," quickly he recognized that that was the Messiah that they were looking for.


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