<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-12-3 But now, to see this hungering--for people, and yet, not able to reach it. And many of our teachers and schools have brought in much theology of telling the people, "Well, it's because you didn't shout, because you didn't speak with tongues, or because you didn't have these kind of gifts," which I have nothing in part, or to--to say against such things; but altogether, you find these people, when they do shout or speak with tongues, or some other emotion, they still don't seem to be the person that they should be. Now, we have--know that to be true. And I've often wondered myself, just what could be done in that kind of a state of mind for the person. So finding it so simple in the Word of God, we're trying to explain it. And in order now to do this, after seeing the intellectual part of the mind and the soul, which is in the heart...

L-12-4 Now, you truly have two different mental faculties. You have one of them that's in your head by your brain, and the other is operated in your heart, which is called your soul: your spirit and your soul. Now, they are very much in disagreement many times. When the head seems to say something, the soul wonders at it if it's not right. But when it comes into the soul, the head seems to step back.
There's been things that's happened to you that you knew was going to be, yet, you could not explain why. And there's no reason; you couldn't explain it out; but yet, you just accepted it, and it happened just that way. That's when something happens down here.

L-12-6 In the great meetings of the vast fields of the campaign, I noticed many people coming to me and saying, "Oh, I have all faith, Brother Branham." And intellectually they are right here, but in their heart it isn't there. If it was, they wouldn't be on the platform to be prayed for--for help of faith, if they had faith.
Now, we'll have to go back and get a type to bring this picture out to you this morning as children, and I want you to notice closely. I believe in typing, especially to--to people that's--that's... It's easier for them to understand, to illustrate. It's--it's good to teach children; and we're all children. We're--we're just adolescence in God. Who would--here would like to say, "I'm an adult, growed up in God. I..."? We are not; we're just little babies in God. That's right.

L-13-2 Now, we want to try to get this to a place where we can see exactly what God is doing. So let's go back now to the Old Testament to get a view of this, and we'll take it by the children of Israel.
When they were crossing the--the Red Sea, and come over into the promise land, God, by sovereign grace, each night, rained down manna out of heaven. And the people would go and eat, take this manna and make it into bread, or cakes, or something, and would eat this bread which sustained their life in the journey. And we find out that many times, if they let the manna lay just a little too long on the ground, it would--it would melt, run away. Just like frost or something on the ground, it--it didn't hold.

L-13-4 Now, we see that that same thing is happening in Christianity. Many people, before nine o'clock, get hungry. You have a lot of campground, what would I say, campground stars? Many people go to the service, and rejoice, and shout, and praise the Lord while the Spirit of God is falling; all condemnation left their hearts. And as soon as--a day or two after the revival, they find themselves back in that old grind again. Yet they're eating manna.
Many people come to Christ--which has never been able in the Pentecostal world to make the Pentecostal people see this fundamental truth. It's so hard, because each church has its doctrine, and they hear their pastor daily. And the evangelist speaks something; they say, "Oh, well, I got it, that--what difference does that make?" But they fail to get this truth.


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