<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>61-0410, Conferences, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, 100 min
L-1 God bless you, Brother...?... It's a grand privilege to be back again tonight in the house of the Lord to... in service with you brethren and sisters in the like precious faith of the Lord Jesus. I think a lot of it was my part last night of maybe holding a little too long. I've got the, the reputation of holding long services. I never did hold any longer than all night. I never have taken much longer. I kind of come up with the apostle Paul when he preached all night and the boy fell out of the balcony and got killed. And he laid his body on him and the boy came back to life.
So, someone said to me, he said, "Brother Branham, you, you just talk a little too long." Well, I got so much to talk about I just, just can't get it all out at one time. I just... Ever since Christ filled me with His presence, why, I've just had so much to say about it.

L-2 And so tonight we're going to try to let you out early, because I do think of respects for those who have got to go at a long distance, and you have to go to work, and so forth. Maybe a little later on in the week we'll lengthen out just a little bit more.
And now, last evening we had prayer for the sick, or what we call... many times referred to as healing service. 'Course we don't... We know we do not heal anyone, but we just pray for them. And I have never healed anyone yet, but I've certainly had some great answers to prayer, seeing the Lord heal the sick. And so that's why I'm here, to try to fellowship with you around these things.
And not only to the healing of the body, but healing of the soul also, which is far more essential than healing the body. Now, it is possible that if you live long enough you'll get sick again, because sickness... The Bible said, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivereth him out of them all." So we have many afflictions promised, but a deliverance from them.

L-3 In the discussion when the late Jack Coe... Many might have known him. He was a very personal friend of mine. I thought very much of Brother Jack. And he had such a (excuse the expression), like a bulldog faith to just hold on for healing. And he would... Someone would come up with crutches, he had him an axe or something there, he'd cut them up and break them up, before he had them... prayer for them. He wasn't going away on them crutches any more. If they couldn't walk away, they could crawl away until they got enough faith to...
And he had a little anvil and a hammer laying there, and someone would come up with glasses on to be prayed for, for their eyes, he'd reach up and take them off, and break them all up with the anvil, throw them over to one side.

L-4 So he got in some trouble down in Florida. Satan set a trap for him and got a child that he took the braces off of. 'Course you know the story. Reverend Gordon Lindsay was down there in the trial when the judge said, "You claim that boy to be healed?"
And Brother Jack said, "He was healed"
"Oh," said, "there's no such a thing as that."
Said, "When I took the braces off of him, he walked across the platform. He said he was healed."
Said, "Now, if you can produce one Scripture where God ever did anything like that--would be healed here, or something, and it'll just last a moment, why, I'm willing to take down on it."
Brother Lindsay raised up and said, "I can produce a Scripture."
Said, "Let's hear it."
Said, "One night on a stormy sea, Jesus told Peter to come walking to Him on water. As long as he walked... He was on top of the water as he believed, but when he got ready to disbelieve, he sank."


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