<TITLE>03. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 Now, to the critic, a few years ago you could make remarks; but now we have tens of thousands of documented statements by doctors, clinics, hospitals, everywhere across the world, of absolutely outstanding miracles of blind, deaf, dumb, raised from the dead, when the doctor pronounced them dead, documented statements. So there's... heir-their... The unbeliever's mouth is hushed. See? You don't hear much more of it, do you? Nothing to be said.
Now, that doesn't belong just to the Pentecostal people. That doesn't belong just to a certain group, or a certain man, or a evangelist come by, like myself, or Mr. Roberts, or some other man. That's to every believer. Not only to the pastor, but to the laity, to any man or woman that's borned of the Spirit of God, that's got faith in healing, has a right to pray for the sick just with the same results that any other man would have. See?

L-8 It's not... I am not one of the believers in the Nicolaitane, taking all of the... conquer the laity and put it all on the pastor. It's in the laity. The Holy Spirit just doesn't baptize the pastor; it baptizes the laity too. It's all in the laity, and pastor is just one of us. Means "the shepherd," pastor, which means "the feeder of the flock." The Holy Spirit gives overseer to watch it and control it.
Now, remember, if Jesus of Nazareth stood here on this platform tonight, wearing this suit that He gave me, and any of you precious people here would come to Him and ask Him to heal you, He could not do it. Now, that seems strange, but He could not (See?), 'cause He's already did it. You are redeemed. See? He would say, "I--If you believe it, it's already healed."
Someone said, "I was healed; I was saved last week, Brother Branham." I beg your pardon.
"No, I was saved ten years ago." No, you were saved nineteen hundred years ago.

L-9 When Christ died He settled the sin question. And how can you ever preach salvation for the soul without preaching Divine healing? Because that sickness is an attribute of sin. Before we had sin we had no sickness, and sickness came because of sin. Maybe not something you done, something that you inherited.
Today in the private interviews... Which, there's a place where you should see the Holy Spirit. There's men and women sitting here tonight that even... the Holy Spirit goes plumb back today in to three generations; and brought down the people and told them their name, and what they did, and all about it, and why this thing was on this person; and took it off of him, and healed him standing right in the room. Tell them their grandmother, their grandfather, who they were, where they come from, what they did. The third generation they couldn't think, but the next generation brought it out and the next generation. And then, to them, of course, they knew. See? He--He knows all things.

L-10 Now, that did not heal the person, but it raised them to a place that they had faith to be healed. That's the reason we do... of acts. Why do we baptize? Water won't save you, but it's the obeying an act. Taking the communion won't save you, but it's following the commandments. You're only...
Beating on the altar won't heal you. Beating on the altar won't save you. You could beat on the altar until you just went out of breath and--and died there. You'd still be unsaved until you accept and believe that Jesus died in your stead, and you accept Him as your personal Saviour. Every minister in here could lay hands on every sick person in here and pray from now until day after tomorrow night. There'd never be one thing happen until you accept what Jesus did for you. So therefore it doesn't lay in ministers, in one another, but it lays in our own individual faith in a finished work that Christ did for us at Calvary.


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