<TITLE>18. Par 188-203</TITLE>L-188 Now here is Truth. If He is risen from the dead, then He promised that God would be made known in human flesh. Now, no matter how much He anoints me, you've got to be anointed with faith to believe it. See? It takes both of us. You... The woman that touched His garment, she had to believe. He would have went on by. See? She had to believe it. See?

L-189   It's God! Now if somebody thinks, "A gift is a--a great big knife. God give you a gift, you can take it and slice it, and do what..." You've got the wrong conception of a gift. A gift is knowing how to get yourself out of the way, and let God do what He wants to do. See, it's knowing how to relax yourself, that God can use you in the way that He wants to. Just get yourself out of the way. See?

L-190 Now I don't know none of these people, don't know this person here. Here is a lady standing here, she looks about like my precious one that just passed on to Glory, recently. Wouldn't I be a horrible thing, if my mother could look from Glory tonight, think I'd come here to deceive a poor person like that? What objective would I have? I'd be insane. I'm here to try to help you, lady.

L-191 And the only thing I can do is just do what I'm commissioned to do. I can't make people believe. I can't make no one believe. Only, I have...

L-192 I'm not a theologian. I'm not even... I'm not a ke-... I don't call myself a preacher, see, because I have no education. A preacher today is somebody that's got their Bachelor of Art and Doctor's degree. Why, I don't know what them things are.

L-193 Somebody asked me the other day, said, "You don't use your nouns and pronouns right."

L-194 I said, "I don't know what they are. I--I don't know." I didn't know what a noun was, or a pronoun. I couldn't tell you, to save my life, difference between a noun and pronoun. I can't tell you.

L-195 But one thing I know, I know Him, the Power of His resurrection. That's all I care about, see. "Him," is the One I want to know. "To know Him, is Life." And that's what I'm after, Life, to live. That's what you're here for, Life, to live.

L-196   Now, lady, if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me something that you have done, something that you ought not have done, something that you're here for. Like He did the woman, told her what was wrong with her; maybe tell what's wrong with you, if there is, then you'll know whether it's the truth or not. You'll be witness of that. Would that make you... You would know there is Something, something had to come from somewhere. It couldn't be natural. It'd have to be Supernatural. All right. Would it cause you to believe that this Word that I've said, it would be God interpreting His Own Word, then that would be God vindicating?

L-197   Will the audience believe the same? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Be reverent now. Now remember, be real reverent.
You say, "You're stalling, Brother Branham?"

L-198 Yes, certainly. I don't know the woman. It's got to take something else, the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit Itself.

L-199 That Pillar of Fire that led the children through Israel, Israel through the wilderness. See, when He was there, He was Jesus. "Moses esteemed--esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than that of Egypt." He forsook Egypt.

L-200 When Jesus was here on earth, He said, "I come to God, and go to God." He died, buried, rose, ascended up.

L-201 And Saul, on his road down to Damascus, was struck down by that same Light. And that Jew would have never called some freak light, "Lord." And He said, "Lord, who are You?" He knowed that was the Lord that led his people through the wilderness.

L-202 He said, "I am Jesus." "The same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-203 Now if that same Light is among us, see, then It vindicates Itself by producing what It did there. Now if He will do that, that'll make us believe and be happy, won't it? May He grant it. You are...


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