<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, where I think it is, friend, Christian friend, is first... There's two things that we have to watch closely. One of them is an intellectual religion, intellectual faith. And the other one is a borned again experience. One of them is in the head, and the other one's in the heart.
Now, of course, science has fought against that up till last year. But in the Chicago paper, when I got it, I just screamed. You know the Bible said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." As a man thinketh in his heart...
Well now, science said, "God got all mixed up." Said, "Because there's no mental faculties in the heart to think with." It's just a pump, that pumps to the blood, purifying the blood, coming through the cylinder, as it was. But said, "The mental faculties is in the head." But, you know, they have to take that back now, and say God was right.
About a year ago they found out that in the human heart that there's a little compartment, teeny, that even a blood cell don't exist in. It's not in an animal heart; it's only in the human heart. And they found out that that's the occupied place of the soul. Did you ever have something that you just knowed was going to happen, yet you couldn't reason it out, but something just told you it was going to happen anyhow? You believe that in your heart. That's something down here.

L-24 Now, when Jesus becomes... Not because you can be orthodox, because you can explain your religion, that isn't really what He meant by man must be born again. When a man... It isn't so much intellectual, but something has happened down here that's changed that man. It's changed his motives. It's changed his ideas. It's changed his life.
As I was speaking last night, he's come into the inner court. The veils is dropped around him; he lives daily for God. Meet him anywhere, any time, he's still got that testimony on his heart. In any trial he still holds good. It works, friend. I know it by experience.

L-25 Not long ago you remember, when I--they let me stay in the prayer line too long and it broke me for about eight months. They just done everything for me nearly. And I... The visions... You see, and they just--they just let me stay too long. We'll explain that later on when we're talking on healing.
But the part was, some man met me, said, "Hey, Preacher Branham."
I said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "Did you keep your religion during the time of your sickness?"
I said, "No, it kept me." It isn't idea whether I hold on; it's whether He held on or not. It's... The work has been finished.


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