<TITLE>06. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 I give him a little parable. I said, "Brother, one time there was king, and he had a great kingdom. And in this he made the rules, and the atonements and so forth, of the king." And I said, "There was a slave committed a crime, and that crime required death. And so, he called the slave up, read off the... And it was death. So there wasn't nothing for the slave to do, but die. So he said, 'What can I do before I kill you?'"
"And the slave said, 'Get me a glass of water.' And so they brought him a glass of water. And the poor fellow knowed he was going to die, so he was shaking so hard, he couldn't hold the glass in his hand. And he said, 'Now, wait a minute. Before you... 'Fore I take your life, I'm going to... You drink that water before I take your life. And I'm not going to take your life till you drink that glass of water.' And the slave throwed the water on the ground."

L-20 I said, "Now, what's he going to do? If he's a man of honor, he has got to keep his word, no matter the law says, he's got to keep his Word."
"Well," he said, "of course, Brother Branham, that was a slip up on the king."
I said, "Then God is so loose, He let it slip up, and put it in His Word, and not put it in the atonement? No, no, don't tell that to me. No, He can't do it. No."
You can't deny but what it's in the Word, and if it's in the Word, the atonement's to back the Word up for every Word of God is inspired.
Said, "Do you believe Mark 16 inspired?"
I said, "Yes, sir. Every..."
"All from 9th verse on?"

L-21 I said, "Yes, sir. 'They take up serpents, and drink deadly things.'" I said, "Yes, sir, I believe it's inspired. I don't believe in tempting, no more than anything else," but I said, "I--I believe that it's inspired Word."
One time there was woman, her boy went away to college. And he learned a whole lot, you know. And while he was gone away to some great college to learn all about God and everything, his poor old mother got sick; and the doctors about to give her up. She had pneumonia and was going to die.
So this little old woman lived down the street, went to a mission, the Full Gospel Mission. So it come back up, and told her, said, "Now, lady," said, "do you believe, your pastor, believe in praying for the sick?"
Said, "No, I don't believe we believe in Divine healing down there."

L-22 Said, "Well, our church believes in Divine healing. Let me get your--my pastor to come up and pray for you."
She said, "Well, all right." And so the pastor come up, and anointed her with oil, and prayed for her. And the woman got well. So her--her boy came home from the cemetery, seminary, a little later on. So when... I--I get those two mixed up, and there are so close together anyhow. So I got... It got up there.

L-23 So the first thing you know, he said, "Mother, dear, I'm so glad to see," and rejoiced her, and said, "Now, the thing I was wondering, mother," he said, "you--you was telling me, being so sick, and I was ready to come home, then all at once you wrote and told me you were well." Said, "I never did get the meanings of that."
Said, "Oh, honey, didn't you understand?"
Said, "No."
Said, "You know where that little mission is downtown there?"
"Yes."
Said, "That Full Gospel preacher come up and prayed for me, anointed me with oil, and the Lord healed me. Hallelujah!"
"Why," he said, "mother, the very idea. Why," said, "of course, those are illiterate people down there." Said, "They do not understand." Said, "We have learned at the seminary, that Mark 16..."


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