<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Someone said one time... There was a man that was a critic wrote in a--a book, a critic of a famous denominational church. And he wrote in the book a criticism of my ministry. And he said, "Well," (he said) "to show that... What I draw the conclusion about the meetings was this." Said, "There was no doubt but what there was some power there that would understand the secret of the heart." Said, "I had friends there that had that discernment was on them." And said, "They knew that was right." He said, "But for the healing, it could not have been right." He said, "Because that there was a man setting in the balcony, which was a friend of his at another church (a brothering church, neighboring church) the man had a serious kidney trouble which he'd had for many years." And said, "Brother Branham called the man by name, and we brought him in there from another city." And said, "He told him of his serious kidney condition and even some things that happened along the road, when he was setting in one of the balconies." And said, "We know that was true." And said, "The man was normal and well for about three years, which he had not been since a boy, and then," said, "it come on him again."
Said, "Therefore, it could not been of God," said, "because if God had healed him, he'd have been well. For if a man's once healed, he's healed."

L-6 It just goes to show, how if... A person has to be ordained of God to believe, or they'll never believe anyhow. They have nothing to believe with. See? They just don't have no depths of their--of their--their soul. If... I have knowed of many men that has been put under a oxygen tent, and given penicillin, and so forth by the doctor, and completely healed with say, pneumonia. And the person left the hospital completely well with pneumonia and a week later die with pneumonia. He just taken pneumonia again; that's all. But he was healed.
And then when the late honorable brother, Jack Coe, had his trial, when a certain denominational church has took sides with a infidel to fight against Brother Coe down in--in Florida at his trial. And then the judge, willingly to show justice, and yet the church men (as the paper gave) had turned against Brother Coe and had joined up with Joe Lewis, the free thinker, infidel, and calling themselves a notable church. But just because they were so against Christ and against healing... But shows how it comes out all right.

L-7 The judge said, "Mr. Coe, do you still claim that this child was healed?"
He said, "I claim Christ healed the child."
And he said, "He took his braces off on one side of the platform in the presence of Mr. Coe, walked across the platform and fell at his mother--crippled." And he said, "Could you show me any place... If there's any one here can show me any place in the Bible that Christ ever did a trick like that, I'll be willing to forfeit the case."
And Reverend Gordon Lindsay (one of your Oregon boys here) raised up and said, "I can produce the case."
And Mr. Lindsay gave him the case. He said, "One night Jesus came walking on the water." And he said, "Peter screamed from the boat, and the rest of them said, 'If Thou be the Christ--the Lord--bid me to come to You on water.' And Peter stepped down out of the boat and started walking towards Jesus, normally, on the water. But when he got scared, he sank."
That settled it; certainly. You can be healed one minute and sick the next. See? It depends on how long your faith holds out. And faith is all what... Divine healing and salvation is nothing that we as individuals can do. It's already a finished work, that Christ did at Calvary; it's our faith in that finished work.


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