<TITLE>22. Par 240-248</TITLE>L-240   So now I want you all, your undivided attention, every person stay right in your place for the next few minutes, and pray.

L-241 Now, it's a great thing to come up here and preach a Gospel that can make people, actually, that was once bootleggers and gamblers, and prostitutes and everything else, out on the street, to sit in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and can feel the inspiration of the Spirit to rise you to a place till you lose yourself, and scream out "amen" and "hallelujah," praises to God. That's a wonderful thing. But then in that same audience, and the Gospel being preached and say what He was, now to identify Him again right back the same One.

L-242   Now in this prayer line standing here, I don't think... I don't see one person in that line that I know. There is not a person. If each one of you that's in that prayer line, are strangers to me, I do not know you, you know that I don't know nothing about you, raise up your hand. Each one of you in the prayer line, that knows that I know nothing about you, raise up your hand. All right. I suppose, it was the entire prayer line. Now, I don't know none of them. Now the only way that...

L-243 And if anybody thinks that this is wrong, you come up here and take my place. See? Until you can do the same thing, then don't say nothing about this. Jesus said, "If I cast out devils by the finger of God, who does your children cast them out by?" In other words, "What system they got better?" See?

L-244   Now we've had a time that everybody has begin to think of the old tradition, laying on hands. And that's all right. But now, my minister brethren, just bear me record, that was a Jewish tradition. See?

L-245 Jairus said, "Come lay Your hand on my daughter, and she'll live." But the Roman, the Gentile, said, "I am not worthy that You would come under my roof. Just speak the word." Is that right? It's the word spoke; the Gentiles, see. We should carry out that; if that Roman could think that, a heathen that had just seen Him. Cause, he knowed that, Jesus Christ's Words. He said, "I'm a man under authority. I say to this man, 'goes,' and he goes, and this one comes. He has to, 'cause he is under me." What was he identifying? That every sickness and every disease was under the command of Jesus Christ. Yes, sir. He has authority.

L-246   And if we can hear Him speak, then that identifies Him of being with us. How much greater it would be for you Gentiles, tonight, to know, and to know that He is among us, and can reach up and realize. Not say, "Brother Branham laid hands on me; Brother Roberts, or my... somebody else." But by faith in the Son of God, say, "I accept You, Lord Jesus. You are here. You heal me."

L-247 Now if He will identify Himself and prove by the Gospel that He is just as much here now as He was then. I have proved to you, that's His identification mark, (is that right?) promising in the last days these things would happen. And we've seen the church go right into it through Luther, Wesley, Pentecost, and right down to the end. See? And here we are, Laodicean Age, the Sodomite Age, and here we are. The ministry has come through every angle of the Word. And I believe, the entire mystery of God, It's already been preached. Now it's identification of Christ among His people, God working in human flesh.

L-248   Now, no matter how much He would anoint mine, you have to be anointed, too, to believe it. See, you're the one has to do the touching. See? And both of us, together, make a unit. I don't know you; you don't know me. You just believe, and I believe, then God takes us both in hand. That's God.


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