<TITLE>16. Par 68-72</TITLE>L-68 I said, "I want to ask you something, doctor. Now, we different in--in theology," I said, "you being Catholic and me Protestant." But I said, "We are worshipping the same God. You're just taking a different road. But I'd like to ask you something. If that was a Catholic boy laying in there dying, and the priest was standing here, and that boy was crying wanting him, and the father and mother begging for the boy to receive the last rights of the church, would you let him go in?"
He said, "Why, certainly."
I said, "I mean as much to them as a priest would to that, a Catholic boy."
And he said, "But wait a minute. The priest is not a married man; you are."
And I said, "If I'm willing to sign a statement that I am--I am responsible... And it won't happen to me."
I finally persuaded him, and he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan and--and all over my face.

L-69 And I went in there. And there was a little nurse there. And the boy had been unconscious for--or two days. And I do not understand anything about medicine. But anyhow they put a cardiogram test on him, and some kind of a something that went all the way down the hand. And he was just barely living. I forget how many times his heart was beating per minute.
And so the old father and mother standing there, said, "Oh." like said, "Mother, look. Brother Branham's here. It's going to be... The Lord's going to heal now."
I prayed for him. I said, "Heavenly Father, I come here now as Your servant. I come with faith. I... You let me in by some means, so beyond that doctor he squeezed over a little bit and let me come in. And now, I lay hands upon this precious, dying boy, and I call for his life to be restored to him in the Name of Jesus Christ." I got up.

L-70 And the mother and father begin to hug one another and saying, "Isn't it wonderful, mother?"
And I said, "Do you believe?"
"Oh," said, "Certainly."
So went on. And I started out. And the little nurse walked over there. And they were just shouting and praising God for the boy's healing. He never moved. And the mother... The little mother and father rejoicing, so the nurse come over, she said, "Sir," she said, "I believe in--in faith myself," she said, "but how can you stand there and carry on like that and your only child laying here dying?"
"Oh," the father said, "he is not dying. He's living. He's going to live."
"Why," they said, "how do you figure anything like that?"
Said, "Why, he's a living, sure."

L-71 She said, "Listen, sir." Said, "It's good to have faith, and we all believe in faith in God." See, there you go back that hybrid theology again. See? And said... But said, "When that hand..." whatever it was.
Now, if there's a doctor present, I don't know what it was. But somehow, ever... When it ever went down that low, that heartbeat with this disease, it never has been known in history to ever come back again.
The sainted old man put his arms around the little nurse's neck. He said, "Honey," said, "you're trained to watch that machine. That's what you know about." Said, "I don't blame you; that's done a lot of good things. He said, "But, you see, it depends on what you're looking at." Said, "You're looking to what that machine says; I'm looking to what a promise of God says."
And that boy is a missionary in Africa tonight, the father of two children, preaching the Gospel.

L-72 It depends on what you are looking at. The Bible, the Christian, looks at the unseen, not what you see here, but what God said. It's a promise. Don't care what science says or anything, it's what God said.
You know, people talk about symptoms. I think Jonah had the worse case of symptoms I ever knowed of. Remember, he was in the belly of a whale. And now, he was way out in the ocean a couple day's journey, perhaps it was forty fathoms deep there. And there was a storm on the sea, and his hands was tied behind him.


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