<TITLE>08. Par 76-85</TITLE>L-76 And how, always puzzled me, that a man can claim to have the Holy Spirit in Him, and deny the Word of God being true. When, the Holy Spirit Itself wrote the Word of God. And you know He wouldn't call Hisself wrong. So He wrote the Scriptures, and He stands by the Scriptures, and God watches over Them, to confirm Them.

L-77   So let's just go back and find out what He was, if we want to know if He is the same today. The only true way of finding out, is to find out what He is today, is to go back and find out what He was yesterday, then we know what He will be today. Is that fair enough? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] If we can find what He was yesterday!

L-78 Course, we can start back with a long story. I don't want to keep you long, 'cause you've got to be here tomorrow, and we want to run a prayer line, but I want you to really take this now and listen close. If we can only go back and find what He was yesterday, we can find out then what He is today, because the Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-79   The reason I was turning those pages back, was to find out back here to... I start and I read Saint John 12:20, let's just continue in Saint John. We can take it anywhere in the Scriptures that you want to, because the whole Book is a testimony of Jesus Christ. It's the full revelation of Jesus Christ. Nothing can be added to It or taken away from It. That's what He is. He is Emmanuel, and that--that settles it; no matter what we try to make Him, something else, or a prophet, or--or something like that. He was a prophet; He was more than a prophet. He is a God-prophet. But He was--He was more than that. He was Emmanuel; not just a good man, a teacher, a philosopher. He was all that, too, and plus that. See?

L-80   Now in Saint John, the 1st, we'll start tonight, and maybe tomorrow take it a little, some other Book. Let's start in Saint John 1. We find out... We all know His virgin birth, that how God overshadowed the virgin, and created a Blood cell that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus. And on the bank of the Jordan, when the God came down in the form of a Light, or a dove, no one seen that but John. All them people standing around, did not see It. No one saw It but John. He was the only one looking for It, so God had told him he would see It.

L-81 You only see what you're looking for. If you come here tonight looking for Christ, you'll see Him. If you come to criticize, you'll have plenty, plenty on your hand to criticize. Depends on what you are looking for.

L-82   John said, "He that told me in the wilderness to go baptize with water, said upon whom I 'shall see the Spirit descending and remaining on, He is the One that will baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire.'" John bear record, said, "I saw the Spirit of God descending from Heaven, like a dove, and It went upon Him." And then He was drove to the wilderness, and temptation. Come out of the wilderness, and immediately, we find, praying for the sick.

L-83 Now, you see, the first thing, the Spirit of God come upon Him before His ministry, so that's the reason He could say, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's the Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." Now we find that His ministry started out, begin healing the sick, by--by prayer.

L-84   Now God heals in many ways. A doctor asked me, not long ago, said, "What's your opinion of medicine, Brother Branham?"

L-85 I said, "Well, God is the only One that can heal, sir." I said, "The Bible don't lie, and the Bible said, 'I am the Lord, heals all your diseases.'" And I said, "The Bible can't lie." I said, "God heals by medicine. God heals by love. God heals by understanding. God heals by care. God heals by prayer. God heals by miracles. The whole thing, God heals. That's all, all there is to it, He is the healer."


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