<TITLE>01. Par 1-2</TITLE>61-0215, Thou Son Of David, Have Mercy On Me, First Assembly Of God Of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 99 min
L-1 Remembered tonight before God in... Our heavenly Father, we are so glad that You answer prayer. So glad to find after many years, meeting the people from way back in '46 and '47, still healed, when they were dying with cancer, crippled in wheelchairs, blind, couldn't see. And here they are here shaking my hand, saying, "Brother Branham, I was crippled; I was blind; I was given up with cancer, and I've never had a sick day since." O Lord, we know that could only be Your grace to them. We're so happy for this, and we pray, God, that others that are suffering today will remember that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
We pray that You'll bless us tonight as we fellowship around the written Word, that the glory of God might come into our midst. We're so glad to hear the results of last night's meeting, receiving the Holy Ghost and being saved. O Lord, how we thank You for these things. Pray now that You'll bless us in further part of the service as we wait on Thee. In Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen.

L-2 It is such a privilege to have a nice audience like this to speak to, and--and it makes it so easy for you to--to believe God when these--takes place like this. Now, I've been for a few nights preaching, and--and just the Gospel, because I think if a--if a person is healed, if they live very long, they'll probably get sick again. But if you're saved, that's eternal, and you have Eternal Life. And it's so--getting so late in the evening lights that I feel that one great thing is needed most of all. That's salvation.
And Divine healing is merely a... Just like Brother Bosworth used to say, Divine healing is the bait that you put on a hook. The fish doesn't see the hook. He just takes the bait and gets the hook. So that's the way it is. People see the--the supernatural, the phenomena of supernatural, God healing the sick. And then they--they reach for that, and the first thing you know, they--the first thing you know, they're right in the arms of the Lord Jesus with great faith to believe. And it--then they become a Christian, have Eternal Life. Now, a great percent of our Lord's ministry about eighty percent of it or better, I think it was--it's estimated about eighty percent of His ministry was Divine healing. So He did that to catch the eyes of the multitude, and also to show that He was their Messiah. He showed them Messiahic signs to say that they--were Messiah.
Now, last night I believe Brother Arganbright asked the audience about how many would like to continue on in--in preaching services, and--or how many'd like to go and have just healing services. And I think about, oh, just a very small percentage of them for the healing services. But however, if we'll open our hearts to God, God will do it any time. See? We just see it like that.


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