<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 I want to stop here just a moment. You know, the Scripture is given by inspiration. You--you don't just learn it in schools. It has to come by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. No matter how smart and shrewd you are, the Holy Spirit reveals the Word of God.
Look at those Pharisees in the days of Jesus, the Sadducees, and teachers, holy men without blemish, scholars, had to be born in a certain lineage, Levite. Had to be trained from youth up in the Scriptures and know every meaning, and yet failed to see Jesus and recognize Him, when the whole Scripture is laying full of it, of His coming. Get what I mean?

L-18 So don't expect to know God by education or theology; you know God by being borned again, new birth. The Holy Spirit wrote the Word of God. And He so entangled it in there; He said, "I've hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and will reveal it to babes such as will learn." So if you want to know anything, get to be a baby. Don't be too smart.
The way up is down. "He that humbles himself shall be exalted. He that exalts himself shall be brought abase." And I think of writing the Scripture, how the Holy Spirit hid those mysteries in there. And all the Bible schools and seminaries will never be able to pull it out. God knows it alone and will reveal it to who He will. Is that right?

L-19 When I'm away overseas, Mrs. Branham, God knows how I love her, and she'll write me a letter. And she'll say, "Dear Bill, I'm setting here tonight thinking of you, praying for you. The children has just gone to bed. We miss you so much." Now, I'm reading what she's saying, but I'm reading in between the lines too, because I love her. And she loves me. And it's a love affair. And she writes it, not so much on the line, but I know what's in between the lines.
Now, when you become in love with Christ, that's the way you read the Bible. It's in between the lines. You get what He's talking about, the real spiritual meaning.
For instance, let's take a little instant of it now, just come into my mind, being that we're speaking on this.

L-20 When Job, old... And God had prospered him and the devil said he--what he was going to do to him; and he did: took all of his riches, made him a pauper, killed his children, burnt up his cattle, broke him out in boils from his head to his feet. And he set out... couldn't even stay the house, perhaps the odor was so bad from his--his boils. And he scraped himself with a piece of crock, as he set on the--the ash heap.
And there, setting there, and his members of his brotherhood of church came to him and turned their backs on him seven days (What a consolation is that?), saying, "Job, you've sinned." A lot of people thinks because people are sick, that they've sinned. God does deal with sickness and sin by sickness, but not in every case. In this case He was correcting, or not correcting, but He was bringing out the qualities of a believer.

L-21 And there was Job setting there, scraping these boils. And his wife come and said, "Job, you look miserable. Why don't you curse God and die? Why, you've prayed; you've done everything, and you've set there scraping those boils. And everybody pass by laughs at you. You've become a laughingstock. God doesn't surely answer prayer no more," something like that.
I can see the old patriarch as he looked up at her and said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman." That's wonderful. Now, he never said she was foolish; said she spoke like somebody was foolish. Said, "The Lord gave. The Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." That's it: determined.


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