<TITLE>18. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 How many doesn't have prayer card, raise up your hand, and you're sick. Raise up your hand. Now, you don't have to have a prayer card. I ask you to believe this story that I've told about Him to be the truth. There was a woman in the Bible; let's say she--she had a blood issue; we know the story. She didn't have a prayer card say, either. But she said, "I believe that man is the truth. I believe that's the Son of God. If I can touch him, I'll be made well." How many knows the story? And when she touched Him, what happened? She went off maybe and set down because she was satisfied in her own heart that she'd touched the Messiah. Do you believe that? Now, listen; watch me and listen to me. See? You touch the Messiah. And Jesus turned around, said, "Who touched Me?" Now, while they're getting those people ready. "Who touched Me?"
And Peter rebuked Him, saying, "Well, Lord, everybody's touching You. Why do You say, 'Who...'" In other words, "What makes you say such a thing as that? Why, people think something's wrong with you. Why, do you say such a thing?"
He said, "But I perceive that strength has gone out of Me." That right?

L-55 Well, if that'd make the Son of God feel strength go out of Him, what would it do to you and I, a sinner saved by grace? We couldn't do it one time unless He said, "The things that I do shall you also, and more than this shall you do." I know the King James says greater, but look at the real translation, more. No one could do greater, 'cause He done everything that could be done. See? He raised the dead and stop nature, and done everything. See?
All right. Now. And that little woman touched His garment and He felt virtue go from Him. And He looked around over the audience until He found where she was, and He told her about her blood issue and said her faith had saved her. Is that right? Is that... Was that Jesus yesterday? Was that the way He did it yesterday? Well, if He's the same today, won't He do it the same today? Sure, He would. Now, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? You believe that? He's raised from the dead?

L-56 Then how could you... "Well, Brother Branham, how would I touch Him?" Now, if you want to touch Him you better listen to what I'm saying. Look. "How will I touch Him?" He is right now a High Priest, Hebrews, 3rd chapter, "A High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity." Is that right? Now, His visible body sets in the Presence of God on the throne of His Majesty, is that right? His Spirit is here in the church, His life, living in us, and He is the Vine; we are the branches. The vine doesn't bear fruit, the branches bears fruit. The vine energize the branches, John 15. That right? Now, if He's the same High Priest and you could reach up to glory and touch Him with your faith, what would He do? If He's the same High Priest, He'd act the same way. He'd do the same thing. Then you yield yourself to Him; I'll yield myself to Him, and then if you touch His--His garment with your infirmities, that He promised in His Bible that He'd do, see if He will turn around and use my voice and use your body, use us together.

L-57 You out there in the audience that won't be in the prayer line; we'll get all these prayer cards by and by, but let's start with the--the first now. All right. Now, first, you people in that prayer line, how many out there that--that's sick, and I don't know you, raise up your hand. All out there that you know that I don't know nothing about you, raise up your hands, every person in the audience that knows that I know... The people in the prayer line, that I'm a stranger to you in the prayer line, raise up your hands, that I do not know you, raise up your hand. I think it's a hundred percent all along.


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