<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 Somebody said, "You lied, Brother Branham." No, I never. I believe that when Jesus died, He healed me. And I accepted it. It had to be so. I wasn't confessing what I felt; I was confessing what I believed. I believe His Word was eternally the truth; it couldn't pass away. It was absolutely the truth. And I--my feelings had nothing to do with it. That's right.
That's the way I accept Him for my salvation. I'm not saved tonight because I feel happy. That's not the reason I'm saved. I'm not saved because I shout. I'm not saved because I spoke with tongues. That don't make me saved. I'm saved tonight, because I met God's conditions of His Bible. That's right.
God said so, and that's my faith. I believe I'm saved because I done what He said. Jesus said, "Whosoever hear... He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life." I believe it. I've accepted on those basis. That settles it. I'm saved.
Satan could beat me around the stump with my feelings. A drunk man could come in and say, "I feel just as good as you do." He probably does. But he hasn't got the faith in the thing that I got. See? I'm saved, because--not because I feel like it. I'm saved because I've met God's requirement. And you're healed the same way.

L-12 As I often quoted this little story, one of the greatest things--enemies that God has--or the human race has (and God's... all your enemy is His enemy, of course) is fighting time. A man says, "Show me, I'll believe it. I can't believe it unless I see it. Seeing is believing." You've heard that. Just let me show you what an error that is. (Come here, Brother Brown.) Let me show you an error.
A man's standing before me, a little taller than I am, with a blue suit and a blue tie on. How many believes that? Sure, all that can see knows that's true. Now, that's the way I know he's there. Well, I know he's there now, and I can't see him. Then seeing is not believing, is it? How do I know he's there? I can feeled him, is that right? Then seeing is not believing. You want to argue with me he's not there? That's...
I got just as much confidence that he's there, if he was and I was looking at him. See? Because he's there; I feeled him.
Now it's impossible for me to feel him, he's out of my reach. But he's there because I see him. (Thank you.) See, taste, feel, smell and hear, God gave men those things to contact his earthly home. But by faith you believe God.

L-13 Now, what is faith? "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." You'd say, "That shirt is white." Yes. Well now, if your faith says that you're going to be healed (just as sure as you're... just as true to you and just as real that your sight says that's white) there's no need of being prayed for, you're already healed. That's it. You can go home, so you're going to get well. You can't keep from it. See?
It's not just a emotional; it's not something mystic; it's a facts, a truth. Sight will fail. Faith... Everything else will fail but faith. Faith can't fail (See?), because it goes into the supernatural realms and it can't fail.
Now, the Lord bless you. Dwell upon these things while I read a chapter out of His Bible here and maybe pass a few comments, for the next fifteen minutes or so. Then we'll have the prayer line. Keep your minds on this. God's Word will never fail.
No matter how you... If you accepted death setting there, crippled up in that chair, if you accept the teachings of the Lord Jesus and accept Him as your Healer and if you're rolled out of here tonight in that chair, the same thing, that won't have one thing to do with it, you'll still get well. You have to.


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