<TITLE>06. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Now, there be just a little instruction I might say to the sick. You might come here, be prayed for; you might have Angels to lay hands on you, and it will never do one thing to you until you first believe it, and accept it, and confess it. For He is the High Priest of our confession. We've got to confess it first before He can witness it before God. For He's the High Priest there to make intercessions upon our confession of what He has done for us.
Now, what is Divine healing? Does it mean now that we have to wait till tomorrow night to be healed? No, sir. Do I have to come to the church? No, sir. The moment you believe God and accept it as your personal property, it's finished right then. That's right. "When was I healed, Brother Branham? I was saved last week, I was saved night before last, ten years ago." You was saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died for you at Calvary. And every redemptive blessing that God has for you... Jesus said at the cross, "It is finished." Everything is done paid for.
Just like you was in the pawn shop and God come and took you out. Oh, beautiful lesson in that. We might get to it next week of Ruth and Naomi, the kinsman redeemer. That's a beautiful lesson. So many... The whole Bible's beautiful, and just all of it because it's the Word of God.
Now, the moment that you can accept your healing or your salvation, if you're walking down the street, if you're--wherever you are, the moment you accept it, that's when you're turned around.

L-16 I was mowing the grass here about a year ago in my yard and--and I was trying, sometime you'd have to get on my overalls and cut a few rounds; then somebody come in, and you'd have to go pray for them. Go out the back door and change and come back. And I just run out of gasoline, and so I started up on the porch, and I seen an old beat up truck stop in front of the house and a gentlemen come walking up the street there, the little driveway. And he said, "I'm looking for Brother Branham."
And I said, "I'm Brother Branham." He looked them overalls over and everything, he said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "That's right."
And so he said, "Well, Brother Branham, I just wanted to see you for a moment; I guess you're busy."
I said, "Never too busy to talk about the Lord." And he said "Well..."
I said, "Won't you come in?"
He said, "No, I'll just set here on the porch."

L-17 He said, "Brother Branham..." He told me where he was from, he said, "I was borned and--and dedicated, or consecrated, whatever they call it, as a Lutheran." And he said, "I guess when I was a little boy, that was the last time I ever went to church that I know of, 'less my mother took me sometime I knowed nothing about." Said, "I'm married," a very fine business man." Said, "I had a lot of things, a lot--nice car business, and I'd made lots of money." Said, "One day my wife went down to the Pentecostals." I'm going to quote it the way he did, said, "went down to the Pentecostals and got the spirits on her." And said, "She" said, "She was having a--a good life." And said, "She come to me and tried to get me to go and get the spirits on me. And I said, 'No,' said, I said, 'Honey, if you want to go,' said, 'you go on anyhow.' Said, 'Now, remember, if you're changing your life...'" Said, "We--we lived an ordinary American life, cocktail parties, dances, drunk, and everything else." And said, "I was glad to see her straighten up." Said, "She did; it made a different person out of her." And said, "I thought, 'Well, if--if she does that, I'm--I'm very happy that she does it.'" And he said, "Now, you got the checkbook, any time your little church needs any money, you're name's just as good on a check as mine. Go on and write them out." And said, "But for me, I--I'm not religious." Said, "If you want to be religious, go on."


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