<TITLE>27. Par 279-292</TITLE>L-279 Preach, you can do that all night, wouldn't bother you. But just let one vision happen, see, it's something, and it's in another world. You see people maybe when they were little bitty children, or something. And you have to talk fast; because, you know you're standing here, but yet you're somewhere else, way back somewhere else, talking. And then when you come out of it, you don't know what you said till you listen to it on the tape. See? And it isn't human. It isn't a person. That's all. It's God. It's always right. And He promised that. See? "Perceiving their thoughts," the Bible said that's what He did. Call it whatever you want to, but the Bible said, "Jesus perceived their thoughts."

L-280   Now, I want you to believe. Now, first, I want you to see that, see, now, like healing. We know the Holy Spirit is here. And I believe in laying on hands.

L-281 Somebody, oh, jumped on me, kind of rough, about that, this morning. Said, "There is no such a thing as people laying hands on one another. It shouldn't be done."

L-282 I said, "You just haven't read the Bible, brother. That's all." I said, "The last commission, that fell from the lips of Jesus Christ, was, 'Lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover," the last Words He said, when He left the earth.

L-283 His first commission, He give His disciples, was, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils," the first group He set out, Matthew 10.

L-284 And the last group He set out, "These signs shall follow them, believe. They'll cast out devils; speak with new tongues; take up serpents; drink deadly things. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That's the last Words He said, and was received up into Glory. Certainly. That's the great commission. What it does, I don't know. It's just carrying out what He said do.

L-285   But here, all, I guess, ninety percent of you, are believers, or more. You are believers, and you have just as much right to lay hands on sick as I do, or your pastors does, everybody. "Lay hands," the believers, "these signs shall follow." Not "the ministers," but everybody that believes. You have a right, everybody.

L-286 As I said, there's no great men, and holy men. There is not. We're not, any of us, holy. We got a Holy Spirit in us, but we're not holy. It's, He is the One is holy. See? It's His holiness; not mine, not yours. His!

L-287 But, here, let's just close your minds to everything now, for the next fifteen minutes. And now, these men are setting here, looking around.

L-288 Here is a woman standing before me. I never seen her in my life. As far... Are we strangers to one another, lady? You heard her, what she said? She had been in my meetings, several time, but she never even had the opportunity to say, "How do you do?" to me. See? Therefore, I don't know the woman. She is standing there. She is here for some cause. Now, let's just--just think now. Take Saint John, the 4th chapter, when Jesus met a woman.

L-289 Now, remember, He said, "The works that I do shall you do also."

L-290   Now, here is a woman and a man, meeting for the first time in life. Now, that's true. Here we are. Here is God's Bible. There stands a woman. Here I stand. I've never know, ever seen the woman in my life, I know. That's all I know, is, she is standing there. Today she was out here somewhere, and somebody give her a prayer card, and her number was called, and here she stands. That's all.

L-291 There's many out there. Last night we just took those who didn't have prayer cards. How many was here to see that? See, the prayer card don't have nothing to do with it. See? It's your faith that has to do with it.

L-292 Now, you say, "Brother Branham, can you heal the sick?" There's not a man on earth can heal the sick. They're already healed. You just got to make them see it, believe it.


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