<TITLE>14. Par 55-57</TITLE>L-55 A man challenged me on the radio, here not long ago. Said he'd give a thousand dollars for anybody that would prove one case of Divine healing. About a hour after that, there was about twenty cases standing at my door, with doctors and statements and everything. I said, "Let's go collect that thousand dollars."
I went over to his house. He said, "I'll take you over to Abilene, Texas, our headquarters. And we'll take a little girl over there and we'll cut her arm and you heal it... and we'll hold it out and let you... and we... all of our brethren will give you a thousand dollars."
I said, "You're suffering with a bad case of mental deficiency, any man would think of such a thing as that."
Now, the same old devil that met Jesus and said, "Now, if You be the Son of God, perform a miracle here before me and let me see You do it, and I'll believe You. Turn these stones into bread now and You eat. Now, let me see You do it."

L-56 Took Him up on the temple and said, "Now, if You be the Son of God, cast Yourself down. 'Cause it's written in the Scripture, 'He'd give His angels charge concerning thee, lest any time that you'd be--dash a foot against a stone, bear Thee up.'" Quoting Scripture to Him...
The same old devil said to Jesus on the cross, "Now, if Thou be the Son of God, pull Your hands loose and come down, we'll believe You." Tied a rag around His face and hit Him on the head with a reed. Said, "You know what people were doing. You're a Prophet. You understand all things. Tell us who hit You." That same old devil still lives, just the same thing.
Wanting a miracle performed this way. Just hasn't got intelligence enough to look around and see what God is a doing, or I would say this, with a right spiritual attitude to see what God is doing.
Now, Jesus said, "Let them alone. If the blind leads the blind, won't they both fall in the ditch?" So don't fool with them. And I said to Brother Bosworth, "You oughtn't to do it." And I said, "I have never claimed to be a Divine healer." My literature was published in seventeen different languages at that time. And I said, "I have never one time made any statement about being Divine healer. I've always said God is the Healer. I only point people to Jesus Christ."

L-57 I said, "Now, as far as vision being concerned, that's truth. That's a Divine gift." I said, "Anyone knows that God would never have nothing to do with an error. God will never testify of a lie. You know that." And I said, "If it's truth, God will testify of the truth. If it's not truth, God will never testify of it."
I no more than said that, till here He come. And they took the picture of It. And then they went home that night, a Jew and a Catholic, the Douglas Studios. And they developed the pictures.
And they--they'd hired him to come over there. And he took his fist and put it under that old saintly godly Brother Bosworth's nose and said, "Take my picture like this." Said, "I want to put it in my magazine, skinning this old man. And we take his hide and tack it up on my--my study door for a memorial to Divine healing," a Baptist minister. Now, all Baptists are not like that.


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