<TITLE>20. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 Some of you say, "What is it, Brother Branham?" I--I--Every night when this meeting starts, I feel it say, "You know, I believe he's reading their mind."
One says, "It's telepathy."
One says, "It's nonsense."...?...
Brother, you're only sealing your own doom. If He could speak Hisself... If that isn't the same Word He... How many knows that Jesus Christ is the Word of God? "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Is that right? How many knows that Hebrews, the 4th chapter, the Bible says that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword? That's preaching, slice her down cutting both two-edged coming and going.
Some people thinks humility is something that ought to wear a skirt. No, no. You misunderstand that. Jesus, the humblest Man that ever lived, He could plait ropes together, and look on them with anger, and run them out of the temple. Yes, sir. Certainly.

L-66 You say, "He had compassion." He did. Why did He pass through thousands of people that were laying blind, halt, withered, and found a man laying on a pallet, maybe he had prostate trouble? He could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down, somebody beats me." He... Wasn't going to kill him; he had it thirty-eight years. And the Bible said He passed through great multitudes of lame, blind, halt, and withered. Is that right, brethren? A compassionate God, passing through that kind of people, and found a man laying on a pallet.
How many knows what a pallet is? I was raised on one (See?), so... Then, you... Laying on this pallet... And there he was, laying there. And Jesus looked around until He found him, and the Bible said that He knew he had been in this condition. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?" Why not the twisted man? What about that woman there with the dying baby? What about these? What--what about them? "Wilt thou be made whole?
He said, "I have no one to put me in the water. When I'm coming, somebody steps down."
Jesus said, "You've had that for thirty-eight years."
"That's right."
"All right. Take up your bed and go unto your house." He never questioned. He just picked up the bed and went walking on. Is that right?

L-67 And the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin court (the church), questioned Him. "What about all the rest of these?"
He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you: "I can... The Son does nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." That's compassion. Compassion is follow the will of God, not human sympathy, but compassion. Oh, it's two different words altogether: sympathy, and compassion. See? If it wasn't, Jesus sure made a rude mistake when He did that. See?
So you must realize that the compassionate Christ... Again He has healed every one of you. You're all free, if you can believe it. Now, do you believe this is the Word of God? That that's exactly what Jesus done, what they were testifying about? Raise your hands.

L-68 Now, if He was standing here, the One Who wrote the Word, if He was standing here, and would tell you and prove to you that He was standing right here on the platform, would you be willing to accept Him, and say, "That settles it for me; I... "? If He's standing here, and wrote the Word, and said, "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst... And the works that I do shall they do also."... Is that right? Saint John 14:7, 14:8-"The works that I do..."
Now, here's a broad challenge before, as our brother said, nineteen hundred people. Here lays a Bible on the desk. Here's two or three sheets of paper of some kind, and something, I don't know what even's on them. They belong to some of the brethren here. Here's a Bible. There's nineteen hundred people. There's not a person here that I know. I can't see one living human being that I know in that audience. If you're all strangers to me, raise your hand.


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