<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 Now, you've heard much gospel preaching tonight, and from ministers. And some of you have been setting here now for--every since about six o'clock. And I don't want to keep you any longer. I'm not no speaker much. I want to read a Scripture, give a little testimony, start the prayer line, while you're praying.
I wish to say this. Today, I had the privilege of being at a place, some lovely home here in Chicago, just out riding around, and come to this place. I met a man that I've knowed for some time. He's just recently been converted, led a drunkard's life for a long time, backslider. And he come put his hands in mine, hand on my shoulder, fine brother, said, "Forgive me for doubting you."
And I said, "Well, what? Doubting me."
Said, "I was always a little skeptic, Brother Branham, until night before last." Said, "You'd come to the platform, and someone come up late."

L-9 Now, the best of the story I can remember, they come to him to get a prayer card. The prayer cards was done give out. They had a sick baby; they said... He said, "Well, I tell you." Said, "You just go in and set down." He might have give the people his seat. And said, "You just go in and set down, and you start praying; you don't need a prayer card. Just pray." And said, "Himself, he was suffering." And he walked back over... I believe it was rheumatism, arthritis, or something he said. He walked back over, and laid his head on the rail, and said, "God, speak to Brother Branham for that poor little sick baby."
And at that very moment, the Holy Spirit heard his prayer, moved me right out into the audience, and said--told the people who they were, where they were from, what was wrong with their baby, told them, within twenty-four hours the baby would be changed. And they met it in twenty-fours hours, and the father said, "The baby's just doing fine...?..." So he said...

L-10 Sometimes it might seem like, if you see something different. We got a regular routine, Christianity has; we just have to stay right in that routine or we're--we're not Christians. We have to believe just this a way or we're not Christians. That's--that's too bad we get that way. See? We must be flexible to the Spirit. Let the Spirit of God lead us. Many things are strange.

L-11 Now, when you see something going on in the phenomenal realms, that you can't...?... find out, you try to understand it, you can't... You heard it read from the Bible; yet you just can't perceive it. Many people sometimes, said, "Well, it's--it's the devil."
That's what the Pharisees done. They seen Jesus looking at people, and perceiving their thoughts, and telling things that  happened. Well, the--the strange thing it was, when they thought first, "Oh, that's just psychic." But when they found out that what He said come to pass... What He said, He was perfect, accurate. And another thing, the sick got well. Why, they couldn't understand that. So then they couldn't--they didn't just try to try to figure it out, they just said, "It's the devil, that's all." And then you try to say... They'd see His healing, and they said, "Oh, He--He's just... He's a devil."
And Jesus said, "If the devil can heal the devil, or cast out the devil, isn't his kingdom divided?" See?
They just don't try to set down and reason it out with God. They try to reason it with theirself, and you can't reason God. That's all. You got to believe God. God is not known by knowledge. No matter how many degrees you got, how many seminaries you went through, it doesn't amount to that. [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] That's true. You know God by faith, not by knowledge. See? You can't know God by--by knowledge.


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