<TITLE>13. Par 136-148</TITLE>L-136 He said, "I'll know Him when He comes." He was so sure, that he said, "This is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." He knew it was. He testified to it. "I saw the Spirit of God descending from Heaven upon Him, like a dove, and I know that is the Son of God." Persistent! Oh, we could go on and on, with characters.

L-137   This little woman, she was a Greek from the country of Syrophenicia, and we find out that she must have heard about the praises and glory of the Lord Jesus. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." She heard, and when she heard...

L-138 You know, faith finds sources that others don't see. Now if you don't have faith, well, then, there is no need of trying to show it to you. Because, faith can see it. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith sees what the blind people doesn't see. Faith is the sixth sense. Five senses are fine, as long as they don't disagree with the sixth. But the sixth sense is faith, "it's the substance of things hoped for," you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear, but yet you know it. Faith tells you so. And it's so sure that it's real, that it comes to you a substance. Not just imagination. It's something you have.

L-139 I see people come on the platform, said, "Brother Branham, I've got all faith!"
"Well, what are you doing up here, then?" See? See? See?

L-140 "I don't have it." And, but there when you got, when anything...

L-141   You've had things to happen, you just knew it was going to be. Yet you didn't know how it was going to be, but it was going to be. That, that's faith. That's real faith. It's going to happen then, when you know that it's going to be. Now, faith finds a source that others don't see.

L-142 His Word is a sword. The Bible said so, in Hebrews 4:12, that It is a sword. But it takes an arm of faith to wield that sword. Only faith can do it, hold the sword.

L-143   She had many hindrances, this little woman. Now, she had a daughter that was--was having epilepsy, and she was very, very bad. And she had heard that Jesus healed epilepsy. Now, "faith cometh by hearing," and that was her child, so she was determined to--to get down somewhere and hear Jesus. And now she had many hindrances, just many, many hindrances, but her faith didn't have no hindrance.

L-144 Tonight, people has lots of hindrances. If you... Your mind has lots of hindrances. But, your faith, there is nothing can stand in its way. Faith knows no hindrances.

L-145   Let's just think of some of the things that might have happened to this little woman. They might have said unto her, that, "You are a Greek." In other words, "Your denomination is not sponsoring that meeting down there. You don't have any right to go down there." Well, if that would have been in her mind, she wouldn't have sat very long anyhow. She, the jug would have filled up, and she'd have left. But we find out, that didn't stop her. Whether she was Greek or not, she had faith. That's all she needed was faith.

L-146   Now somebody might have come to her, and said, "Well, the days of miracles is passed. There is no such a thing. Those people are just a bunch of--of fanatics." But still she was persistent. She was going to go anyhow.

L-147 Let's think another one. Some of them might have said, "Well, you know what, your husband is a--is a notable man here in the city, and if you would be caught down there with that group, well, your husband will actually leave you." But still she was persistent. She had faith, and had a need to use it.

L-148 Some of them might have said, "Why, if you'd go down to the card game, or whatever kind of an amusement you go to, the people will laugh at you." She was still persistent.


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