<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 What if I was out here cranking my car, 'course that's long time ago, I guess, when the old hump back model-T days, now, when they used to crank the old car. What if I'd break my arm, and I'd run in and say, "Physician, heal my arm right quick. I--I got to finish cranking my car."
Why, he'd say, "You need mental healing." Well, that'd be right. See?
He'd say, "Well, I can--I can set your arm. But something higher than me has to heal it." That's right.
He can set it, and that's his duty. That's what we ought to do, go and let him set it, but God does the healing. So I do not believe that there's such a thing as a Divine healer outside of God. I believe that God is the only Healer that there is.

L-5 Therefore, many times people have said, "Brother Branham, the Divine healer." No, I am no more Divine healer than the pastor is the Divine Saviour. So I... We just preach the Gospel, the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the good news that Christ was "wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed." It's something that's passed. See? Christ did all for us that was required to be done. And all that can be done, is already done. I believe that the only thing we have to do is to accept what He has done: what's already done.

L-6 And now, a minister, any minister, has just as much right to pray for the sick, or the laity just as much as anyone else. Because He said, "Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another. That you might... may be healed. For the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
I do believe that there's power in prayer. I've seen some very direct answers to prayer, but never healed anybody in my life. But I've seen God do a lot of it. So I--I believe that it's the individual's faith in a work that's already been completed.
Now, you say... I'd say here tonight, "How many Christians?" So many hands would go up. "How many was saved last year?" So many hands would go up. "How many was saved maybe a week ago?" Maybe they'd be two or three hands go up.
I differ. You--you was not saved a year ago, or you wasn't saved two or three days ago. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago at Calvary, but you accepted it last year, or you accepted it last week (See?), or two days ago. And the same thing, "by His stripes you were healed." See? "You were (past tense) healed."
Now, you can accept it tonight, or you can accept it tomorrow night, or whenever you accept it, why it's yours. So it's up to you when you want to accept it, upon those basis.


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