<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Though you can't see it, none of the senses will say it's right, every one of them will say it's wrong; but you know it's right because God said so. That's what makes it right. Now, that's... His provided way has been His Word; it is His Word. God's provided way for the human to live is not by your senses; it's by His Word.
Now, God put man first in His own image, which was in a image of God. And God is a supernatural Being; He was a supernatural Man. And then He put him in five senses, and none of those five senses declare his heavenly home. Those five senses declare his earthly home. And God give him five senses to contact his earthly home, and not to contact God.
His sense, these--these five senses control the human body, and two senses control the inside man. That's faith and unbelief. And you possess one or the other tonight.

L-13 Now, in the garden of Eden there were two trees. One of them was the tree of knowledge; one was the Tree of Life. And man can never know God by knowledge. So no matter how well you get educated, how smart your pastor is, how many degrees he's taken, you can't... God is not known by education, neither is He known by scientific research; the only way God is known is by faith. No matter if you don't know the difference between split beans and coffee, if you absolutely by faith accept God and... It's bound to be an act of faith.
And when man was eating on this Tree of Life, he had Eternal Life. But when he left that Tree of Life and went on the tree of knowledge, the first bite he took, he separated his fellowship with God, and every time that he bites off of that tree of knowledge, he destroys himself.

L-14 Here some time ago when they had a great strike on and they were... I was going along the road, and I seen a load of coals coming up the road, and I said, "Well, praise the Lord, the strike is off. I guess the miners went to work." I thought, "Should I praise God for that? Well," I thought, "electricity go off and things."
But you just remember, friends, that every bit of knowledge... Now, the first thing man bit off of this tree over here, the tree of--of knowledge, and every time he bites off of that tree he just pulls hisself that much farther away from God. And when you think that you can get all your education... I've had men to come to me that had all kinds of degrees and everything else and say, "Brother Branham, I'd like to get saved." That's right. Men who's Doctors of Divinity with D.D. double L.D. That's right. What does that mean? Nothing. Just means you got a lot up here, but what about down here? See? That's where...

L-15 God is not known by knowing genealogy, it by kneeology, where God knows. You don't find God by studying books; you find God on your knees.
And the first time... Now look, he bit hisself off gun power. What did he do with that? That was knowledge, the tree of knowledge; he kills his comrade. The next he bit him an automobile. Automobiles kills more then all the wars put together. Knowledge still... He's got hisself a hydrogen bomb now, I wonder what he's going to do with that? See? He's constantly destroying himself by eating off the tree of knowledge. So just forget about knowledge and all your puffed-up knowledge, and just remember it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, and that's what God wants you to believe, is His Word. That's right. That's God's provided way for man and always has been.


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