<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Now, the mind will reason things. In revivals of healing campaigns you see people get that in their minds. They'll say, "Now, looky here, this is all unreasonable." Here sets a lady in a wheelchair. I don't know her, never seen her. But maybe she might be paralyzed. See, I don't know what's wrong with her. Whatever it is, maybe say she was paralyzed, maybe been setting there for years. But say, the reasonings... The doctors says there's a calcium deposit over the bone; you can't move no more. Maybe the spines broke; maybe there's something wrong in that manner. Maybe there's a blind man setting here with his eyes blinded over. And you'd say, "Well, now..." Reason... "Now, the doctors... I've been to the best, and they tell me I'll never be any different." Well now, mental reasonings would say, "That's right." But now, as long as you dwell in that mental reasonings, you'll never be no different.

L-25 Now, the Bible said we've got to cast down reasoning. Then when your soul says that "Jesus is my Healer and I now believe it and accept it," then reasonings move out. And your soul comes in first place, and whatever God says, it won't reason at all, it'll take it--God at His Word. That's what brings the results. Such a simple thing...
It's not nothing that--something that someone would go to someone and say, "Now, I have power to heal you. I have power to do this, or..." That isn't it. It's simply taking God at His Word. And your soul will always agree with God's Word, but your reasonings will--will different with it.
A man say, "I can't live the life."
That little girl the other day that was converted, she said, "I can't live it, Brother Branham." That was reasoning, but when it struck her soul, something begin--become a reality then. It's not reasoning any more; it's taking God at His Word. Amen. Notice, when you get reasonings cast away, the soul will answer clear.

L-26 Not long ago I heard of a case where a woman that belonged to a certain church... I told this two or three times, maybe not here 'cause it just happened, of a woman who... Well, she--she's lived around the church and she married a boy there. The boy was converted but the woman wasn't. So she... They moved away from the neighborhood. She was a pianist in the church. She moved to another neighborhood, and the ladies in that neighborhood wasn't as moral and clean as they was in this other neighborhood. So they wore these little bitty short clothes, and got out and mowed their yard and those things which isn't right.
Anybody's that's borned again knows that's wrong. Why, it's only the devil that makes you strip your clothes. There never was nobody in the Bible, but just demon powers that does those things. And the world's just full of it. And it's even religious to do so. Why, certainly that's the devil.

L-27 And so then this woman, she said, "Now, wait a minute; my Mama was just an old fashion fogy Christian. And if these other women can be just as good standing in the church as I am, why can't I do as they do?" See? That was in her mind to begin with. She said, "I could be just as good as they; and they're just as much thought of." See, that's reasoning.
Now, her soul will tell her that's wrong. But she pushed it aside. And she went to doing it anyhow. "The ladies in the church, most of them smoke cigarettes." Which is one of the cruelest and worst things that women's ever done in this modern age. See? But she said, "If the other ladies can smoke, why can't I smoke?" So she started doing that. Oh, so cute...
Her husband tried to tell her, said, "Now, honey, we--we don't--we don't do that."
She said, "Now, look, John..." See? She'd do it anyhow. See?


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