<TITLE>04. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 I've taught much to heathens in Africa, India, many different parts of the world, but the worst unbelievers you deal with is not that man who has never heard. It's the man who's self centered in his own way and won't heed to God. That's the worst kind to deal with, for they seem to be just so centered that--that nothing can move them, say, "Don't talk to me. I don't believe it."
Recently a man said to me, said, "Brother Branham, I do not believe in Divine healing."
I said, "Well, it wasn't for you. It was for believers. 'Him that believeth' that's who it's for. It wasn't for unbelievers in the beginning." I said, "So you'll never draw any dividends off of it. Let's don't worry about that."
He said, "I believe that sickness is a glory to God."
I said, "Well, it's strange you had your wife operated on for appendicitis: must've cut the glory out." So people that talk like that, there's something wrong. God don't get glory out of people being sick. He wants you to be well.
Our Blessed Bible said, "Above all things, I would that you'd prosper in health." That's the Scripture. So we can't deny that.

L-10 Now, in order to have faith, faith has to have a basis. You just can't let faith be loose and wild. Faith has to rest itself, not upon the shifting sands of man's reasoning. Faith is based on the solid Rock of God's Word. Faith rests right on God's Word.
If the Lord has said so, then that settles it. It doesn't shift about. Men how sometimes they can explain anything so real and paint the picture so real, but yet faith will never look at that if God's Word is contrary to it. It'll track straight to God's Word.
And when He said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee," you believe that for God said so. And we believe it because God said so.

L-11 Now, in the days of Moses, when God sent Moses down to deliver the children of Israel, before He could deliver the children of Israel... First Pharaoh, there arose up a pharaoh who did not know Joseph, and he was a smart pharaoh, perhaps trained in all the theology of Egypt--smart, shrewd--but he didn't have... He had a good reasoning, but he didn't have the Word of God.
Now, he reasoned out scientifically and said, "Looky here. They're all multiplying. They're more of a thrifty people than we are; they can live on a smaller income, and they're--they're generating and multiplying. So the thing we must do is stop this right away, kill all the infant babies, males, so that there'll be no more... They won't grow so fast.
If Pharaoh... They said they might come a war and if a war would fall out, he said, "Then they might join themselves with our enemies and fight against us. They'd be greater than we are and powerfuler than we are."

L-12 Now, his reasonings was correct, scientifically correct, but where Pharaoh made his mistake was not looking into the Word of God that knowed that great promise that God was going to bless them and bring them out anyhow.
No matter what science says, what reasoning says, if it's not based on the Word of God, I'm sure sorry for the person that listens to it. So therefore, faith can't rest on reasoning. It rests on God's Word, what the Lord has said.


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