<TITLE>19. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord and Saviour was on His road to raise up a little dead girl of a priest, and there was a woman who had a blood issue. She had tried to be healed through the physicians; and they'd tried hard to heal the woman, but they couldn't do it. She had an issue of blood, perhaps menopause or something. It couldn't stop, and I can see the little pale thing. She said within her heart, "If I can only touch that man's garment, I'll be made whole." Do you remember the story?
And she touched His garment, and He said, "Who touched Me?"
And Peter rebuked Him, saying, "Everybody's touching You. Why'd You say such a thing?"
He said, "But I got weak, virtue gone from Me," strength.
Now, you say, "Oh, I'm sick tonight, Brother Branham. If Jesus was here, I'd touch Him right now." Would you do it? Sure you would. All right. I want to tell you He's here. Uh-huh. all right. See?

L-72 Now, if He--He was you standing here wearing this suit that He gave me, if you'd walk up and say, "Lord Jesus, will You heal me?"
He would say, "I have already done it. Do you believe?" That's where... "According to your faith be it unto you," He said. See? It's already finished when He died at Calvary, but He can make Hisself present here to show that He is alive and not dead. He promised that. That's our consolation.
Aren't you happy in these dark hours when the world or--and nobody knows what to do yet we know where we're standing. We know. See? He's here. We believe Him. Here He is, and scientific proved that He's here by their pictures and things. The church in the millions around the world sees His power, see it working, and there's...

L-73 Remember, there's something great that's fixing to happen. It ain't the hour yet. Something will take place, and you'll know one of these days, before long now. Don't let it be too late. You remember, lot of times these things pass over, and you don't know it. The Catholic church didn't know when they burned Joan of Arc for a witch that she was a saint. Didn't know Saint Patrick the same way. They didn't know Jesus was the Son of God till He was dead, buried, and rose again. They realized what they'd done. Don't turn this Holy Spirit away, for someday you'll realize what you've done. See? Don't let it be like that.
Now, He's here, and the Bible says if you want to touch Him... Hebrews... Any of the clergymen around knows this. The Bible says that He is right now a High Priest setting at the right hand of the majesty of God, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right?

L-74 Does Hebrews 13:8 say He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? If He is the same High Priest, if you'd touch Him, He would act the same way. Is that right? Same thing He did down there when that woman touched Him, He'd do the same thing, because He promised He would do it, according to what He did there when He was talking to Abraham. See?
If you believe it with all your heart, may the Holy Spirit come by Divine gift, not nothing within myself... Just like this microphone. It's a mute unless... It's a dumb mute without something making the noise on this side of it. So am I a dumb mute; without Something speaking through me, I don't know you. You touch Him, and when you do that, you set something afire that sends the Holy Spirit down.
If I can release myself and humble myself to get my own thoughts out of the way, your faith in God will turn Him around; and He will use this Holy Spirit in me to do the same thing He did to the woman that touched His garment. You won't have to have your prayer card and come up here, 'cause you haven't any prayer cards anyhow. See? We're going to give them out tomorrow. Just have faith.


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