<TITLE>21. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 And I'm giving you His Word. "By His stripes you were healed." Amen.
You that hasn't got the Holy Ghost, I'm giving you His Word. Peter said on the day of Pentecost, when the critics were standing around, he said, "Repent, every one of you. Be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to your children."
"Well, the--the bishop told me, the presbyter told me, the district man told me, the pastor told me, 'Them days was gone.'"
I don't care what they said; the Bible said, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's called, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That's His Word; receive It. He sent His Word. That's what it takes, His Word.
But Jairus wanted His hands. You know, I think, God's a good God. He--He manage it for--to get in there some way. You know, lot of the disciples, they believed as soon as they heard the word that Jesus was raised from the dead, said, "Praise God, that's fine."
But Thomas said, "I've got to put my fingers in the prints of the nails in His hand. I got--I got to feel it. I--I got to see it myself. I seen it work on others in the meetings, but it's got to be on me." Oh, Thomas has got a lot of children, but he... But God's a good God. He--He works around anyhow.
He said, "Come here, Thomas. Feel Me." Now, it works on you. "Do you believe, Thomas?"
Said, "Oh, yeah, you're my Lord now. I believe it now."
He said, "How much greater is their reward who's never seen and yet believe." Amen. They take God's Word for it. That's all. Amen.

L-52 Boy. And I'm just getting down to my text. Where was it? Let's see. Oh, yes. Yes, sir.
Then well, let's take him. Here he goes back up and here's all the critics out, you know, saying, "There he goes along."
So first thing when the courier come and said, "Well, don't bother no more." Said, "He--he... The baby died; it's dead. We done laid it out up there, and it's got the flowers on it, and got the embalming clothes, the fluids on it. And there's no need of fooling any more, the kid's done dead. Doctor come back; we went and got him, and he announced it dead. And he done got it laying out, and it's cold, laying in the room on the death couch. And--and all the mourners are around, and there's a lamentation around there. You never heard nothing like it. So..."

L-53 Jesus walking steady (Oh, I love that. Couldn't you just see Him, brethren?) never bothered Him a bit... Little Jairus' heart was beating...?... Looked over.
Jesus, I can see Him turn them eyes and said, "Did not I say to you, 'Only believe.'" 
Oh, that's what I say to you. Only believe God's Word if you want to see the glory of God. Only believe, no matter what anybody else says, how sick you are.
"But, Brother Branham, the doctor said I was going to die in a few days." Only believe.
He said, "My baby can't get well." But only believe. That's all. Only believe that God made the promise.

L-54 "I'll never walk again, Brother Branham, the doctor told me that." Only believe, for all things are possible to them that believe. Only believe. Only believe. That's all you have to do. Just believe. No matter, and then what was it? Already dead, what now? Only to believe.
Hmm! I feel religious right now; honest I do. Oh, my.
"Only believe."
"Dead?"
"Yes."
Oh, I remember when He come up to the grave of Lazarus. "If Thou had've been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." That's it.
"I am the Resurrection and Life," saith God. "He that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord." Oh, I like that. "Yea, Lord, I do believe Thou art the Christ that was to come into the world. You are the anointed One. I believe it with all my heart."
Said, "Where have you buried him?" ...?...


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