<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 We don't have to take a substitute; the Pentecostal skies are full of the genuine. Why take something that's bogus when there's a real one there? Certainly. Make it real, then there's no slip ups. See, you've got it right there. Somebody said, like, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, tell Brother Branham, tonight there'll be a woman come in, she's coming from Ohio. She'd be dressed in a certain garment. She's got cancer. But when she was a little girl, she stole money out of a treasurer, she could never be healed. Tell her--tell her go take that money back and make it right, THUS SAITH THE LORD, she'll be healed." There it is. If there wasn't a message directly to somebody like that, it was flesh; we didn't accept it at all.

L-17 What if I come here and say, "The Lord tells me somebody's got kidney trouble. How many's got kidney trouble?" Sure, it's all over the building. I seen that so impersonated of a gift of God. Somebody tells me, "Lord tells me, hallelujah, I feel it's nervous, somebody in here is nervous." Sure, the whole crowd is. No, that's not it. Who is, and where did they come from, what caused it, and what's going to be the outcome? See? That's carnal impersonation, which is carnal in the sight of God.
Why accept that when there's a real one? Why would you do that when there's a genuine? So here's what it is (See?), then reach way up and pull up, that's the gift. See, the person standing there. See? I look up, I say, "Ahh, I seen a giraffe."
"Oh, you did." Now, you know what that is? In the natural, now I'm showing you a parable. In the natural, now, see, maybe the other brothers, they could pack water, they're strong, but I happened to be born to be tall. God makes us what we are, preachers, evangelists, apostles, prophets. God set in the church... "Who taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?" You can't do it. Don't try to be this one when you're that one. See? Just be what you are. Now, what's doing that? That's you doing that yourself. See? Raise up, "Ahh, nearly kills me. Oh, I--I saw a giraffe."
"What else did you see?"
Oh, my, here I go again, jump up, "An elephant."
"Oh, you did."

L-18 See, now that's on the platform. That's the way you are using God's gift. That's the same thing the woman did that touched His garment. See? He never said, "I did so and so." He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." See? He looked around as she touched His garment and said, "I perceive virtue's gone from Me." Looked around over the audience till He found her and said, "Oh, thy faith has saved thee." See? He said...
But now watch, when the Father showed Him that Lazarus was going to die... Now, remember, Jesus never did one thing without the Father showing Him first. How many know that? Saint John 5:19: "Verily, verily (That's absolutely, absolutely), "I say unto you, that the Son can do nothing until He sees the Father doing it first." That's right.

L-19 So the Father told Him, "Go away now, because Lazarus is going to die, and after four days, or so many days, return back, and I'll have You to raise him up again." See?  Well, He left; He never said where He was going. Lazarus took sick; they sent for Him, and why, He just went on. See? Sent for Him again, He just went on, ignored it. That was strange for Him. You see? But men are led of the Spirit of God; just--just have faith and believe. They're--they're following a vision; they can't tell you what to do. Just let them alone.
So then, come to find out, then after Jesus knowed the time that the Father had showed Him was fulfilled, He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth."
He said, "Well, if he sleeps, he does well; let him, that's all right."


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