<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-1111E, Why I'm Against Organized Religion, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 173 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother...?... You may be seated. First, I've been so busy today till I've missed some sick calls. There was some people on private cases to be prayed for, that I was supposed to meet. But now, the--some of the--one of the parties, I believe Billy said was from Canada, two or three different places. Now, they come in here, you know, and stay in hotels and motels constantly all the time. And I go meet them, meet them and pray for them coming in from everywhere from around the world, and Asia, Europe, and everywhere. Day by day, when we're here, people are coming in. There's better than six hundred on the list, waiting for private interviews, and so it makes it kinda hard. But the people that's real sick and emergencies to be prayed for, why, I try to meet them.

L-2 And just, well, since I been in there with the trustee board, on a little hearing with my board of trustees here at the church, we had to meet a few moments ago. And during that time it throwed me off about an hour and a half, and there was some people supposed to be here at that time to be prayed for. If they are here, I would like to have prayer for them at this time. So if they will, those people that were supposed to be prayed for, well, if they'll just come up now while the pianist, ever who it is, will come and--and give us a little chord of "The Great Physician Now Is Near, The Sympathizing Jesus." Now, those who are to be prayed for, if they will, how many there was I don't know. And you are the brethren, I suppose.
Brethren, I've suffered much in my own body. Jesus bore in His body, suffering, that He might be the right kind of a Mediator, because He being God made flesh so He could suffer, He could feel the pains of infirmity. And that's why He come to make an atonement. And in this He commissioned His church to continue His work.

L-3 And I have--I have high regards for medical profession, surgery and so forth, who--who with the talents that God has given them to do certain things to the body, to operate and remove teeth that's got bad, and--and so forth. I appreciate that. But there comes a time when they are beyond their--their knowledge; they--they don't know what to do. See? And I think, then, we have a perfect right, as we would in the natural, if we went to our family doctor, maybe a--a doctor out in the country, some good old doctor that pack a lantern and walk through the field of a night to find you, to doctor with you. And if he fails to know, he'll go to someone just a little bit higher than he is. He'll send you to a specialist. And now if the specialist don't know, I--I'm glad we got another Resource, the great Physician. And He doesn't fail, this One doesn't, because He's the Creator Himself. And He's made a way for us.

L-4 Now, if there was any healing power within myself to do it, I--I'd come there and do it. I--I would just be glad to. But as healing power, I have none; no other man has healing power. But we are commissioned (See?) from Christ to pray for the sick, Who has already put on deposit the healing power. See? And we're only coming, as it was, to write a check on that. "And whatever you ask the Father in My Name," that's the blank check. "Whatever you ask the Father in My Name, that I'll do." What a promise, just can't fail. And I have helped my brothers and sisters around the world make these deposits--or make these drawings on these notes in God's Bank, on the Blood of Jesus Christ. And it's been very successful. He's always paid off, and because the deposit's already there. You see? "He--He--He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." See, it's all over. And we're happy tonight for your faith.


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