<TITLE>15. Par 152-164</TITLE>L-152 Now, the Gentiles has had two thousand years of teaching, like they had thousands of years of teaching. But if the Gentiles don't get the same thing that they got, then He's a respect of person. So how would we know Him today? When He stood with us, and in us, and worked through us, and proved that this Spirit, that we call the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is Jesus Christ in personifying Himself in the form of Spirit in the human being, doing the same. He said in Saint John, the 14th chapter, the 12th verse, "He that believeth," not make-believeth. But, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." Isn't that true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-153   He said, in Saint John 5:19. He passed through the pool of Bethesda. I'm still... That's the 4th chapter of Saint John. Now I'm in the 5th chapter. In the 5th chapter of Saint John, He passed through the pool of Bethesda. There laid great multitudes. It takes two thousand to make one multitude. So there's multitudes of people in this great spiritual hospital, as it were, laying at the sheep-gate waiting for the moving of the water.

L-154 God has always had a way of Divine healing for believers. See? And the Angel came down and troubled the water. Any of you know what a troubled water is, see, is the current going one way, and the wind whipping around another. It's a troubled water. And it was that Angel coming on the water, whirling it around. And the first one stepping in, with faith, took the virtue off the water, and got healed.

L-155   Jesus passed through this group of people there, and He knew where a certain man was laying, that had had an infirmity thirty-eight years. He probably had prostate trouble or--or something. It wasn't going to kill him. It was retired. He had it, thirty-eight years. And He walked to him, and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?"

L-156 Why didn't He say it to the lame, halt, blind, or afflicted? They was in there with water-head babies. The Bible said, "They were lame, blind, halt."

L-157 This man could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down, somebody steps ahead of me." But, remember, He knew this man had been there. You get it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-158 And He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house." There's no question about that. He went on, for He knew he would do it.

L-159   They found him packing his bed, on the Sabbath day. He was called in. It would be the same thing tonight.

L-160 [A brother calls out, "Brother Branham, I want the Holy Ghost."--Ed.] If--if--if a man tonight... God bless you, brother, to receive It.

L-161 If a man tonight was healed, and could prove it, that he was healed, knows within himself that he was healed, with a prostate trouble, what do you think would take place tomorrow? Somebody would be saying, "I know somebody sets on the corner. I know where there's a crippled person. I know where this is, or that is. Go heal them." See, that's that same devil.

L-162 Jesus was questioned. Listen what He said in Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily, I say unto you." And verily means, "Absolutely, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. That doeth the Son likewise." See? He never did nothing until first He saw the Father show Him that in a vision. That made Him the God-prophet.

L-163   And today He is still the same, the same God-Prophet, the same Holy Spirit that's dwelling amongst the people. We have received Him, in the form of the baptism. We've received Him, in praying for each other. We've saw Him speak with other languages. We seen Him interpret it. We seen Him do these great signs of the day.

L-164 And now we're moving on into something else. We've had a lot of impersonation. We had a lot of these things, but that doesn't take it away from the Bible Truth. He is still the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is still Jesus Christ. He's the Son of God. He's alive forevermore.


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