Heading For Healing 31b: Who/What Does The Healing? Go And Sin No More

This is a most interesting trip. We have got to do some mental wrestling. From Heading For Healing 31a I wanted to emphasize that because of Christ's redemption of us in the Atonement, the devil actually has no claim on us except in our continued blaspheme of the Holy Ghost; i.e., we do not believe what God has said, which leaves us unforgiven. My favorite go-to for this is T. L. Osborn's testimony of William Marrion Branham's healing of a little deaf and dumb girl, which Osborn witnessed: T.L. Osborn Testimony On William Branham, "I saw Jesus in that man..." Please note T. L.'s comment from .25 to .30 that he aspired to popularity. We need that to help understand Branham in his later ministry.

While looking for videos of Osborn's testimony of this healing, of which there are several, I noticed David Cloud's article William Branham's Bogus Healings. As a Branham I am well aware of how William Marrion's later ministry went south, so I was not and am not dismayed by this revelation. I am here to tell you, though, that it is bogus, unbelieving news.

THE PROBLEM IS IN CONCEPTUALIZATION. Branham pronounced everyone healed on the basis of Christ's finished and complete redemption of them: "Disease is from the Devil, and he has nothing on you now. You ARE healed." The "faithful," though, typically expected (from their typical church's preaching) that Christ and his Apostles had some kind of supernatural Jazam! power emanating from their bodies with which they could heal at will. They believed in God, Jesus, the Holy Ghost, the Bible and healing, but IT WAS STILL SEPARATION. They did not believe what God says, that He and we are ONE, with redemption leaving no problem between us. They had faith in the wrong thing--eternal separation between God and Creation, and they died.

Friend, Christ's work, though ongoing, is DONE. It is just a running end--we each graduate in our own time. We are saved and healed by our faith IN THAT FINISHED WORK. The Devil has got to go just as simply as Branham commanded it from that little deaf and dumb girl. It is oh so regrettable that he aspired to popularity and failed to continue to communicate his message clearly. "By HIS stripes ye ARE healed." Fight for it. Rejoice in it. Confess it not as an outward reward but as your inner being: "He is me, and I am as healed as He is." Accept Him, and ask Him to accept you.

William Branham--HIS FIRST HEALING CAMPAIGN, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI: BEGINNING AGAIN WITH A NEW ANOINTING