<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 And any time when you deal with the Word s-i-n, you have to deal with every attribute that goes with it. You cannot preach salvation to the soul without preaching bodily healing; you just can't do it. You can't cut the Bible up like that, because it will--it's inseparable. The same Man died at the cross, He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed the same day, the Blood from the same veins. See? So you--it's inseparable.
So a fellow said to me not long ago, he said, "Why, Brother Branham, are you preaching Divine healing by the atonement?" he said, "Well, I can prove to you that's gone."
I said, "Well, what do you mean, out of the atonement?"
He said, "Sure." He said, "What Isaiah said He took our infirmities and..."
I said, "That's right."
"With His stripes we were healed." He said, "Now, in Matthew 8, Jesus healed the people that come to Him that evening, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, He took our infirmities."
I said, "Then you apply that time there to the atonement, which was speaking of? Why," I said, "If that be the truth, then the atonement had more power before it come in force than did it--when after Blood of Jesus was shed. And that was a year and six months before He died. Then how could it be applied there to the atonement, when it was a year and six months before the atonement was ever made?"

L-18 So you see, the argument of that just doesn't stand. But we're not to argue; we are to preach the Word, and God will have somebody that'll hear it and receive it. That's... Those who Jesus died to hear the Word, they'll hear it. Did you ever think of that?
May I stop here just for a moment and realize I'm facing clergymen and smart men, but I'd just like to say this, know that I--I believe this and know it: Jesus never went to the cross and died for some haphazard affair. Perhaps maybe somebody might feel sorry because He died and--and so they come to get saved. God doesn't run His business like that. God runs His business by foreknowledge, knowing before the world was ever formed, who was His, His own.

L-19 We were in God's foreknowledge, we were saved before the foundation of the world. And Jesus come to die for those who God by foreknowledge had elected. That's right. And when that last one... That's the reason we're having revivals through America, pulling with the nets everywhere and trying to seine out and seine out. That's ministers. But when the last one's took out, that's all of them. See?
Why, the rest of them, they... We throw a net and gather people, and they come in, and then the first thing you know, they get off and gone. And--and God said, "When the trials come, we couldn't stand chastisement, we were illegitimate children and wasn't the children of God." But I believe that any man or woman that's ever truly been borned of the Spirit of God has no more desire of sin in his life, and never will have. That's right. 'Cause sin question's settled forever. You become a creature, new creature, new creation. Your old appetites and everything else is changed.

L-20 Now, we find people along the road here in this Christian experience, many of them find people who just simply can't, seem like, grasp on to the thing. Just--they have their ups-and-downs. One day you find them, they're on the housetop just praising God. And the next day you find them, they're all down in the (what we call, you excuse the expression,) down in the dumps, way down, low ebb, don't know where they're standing, don't even know whether they're saved or not. The next day they're pretty good shape. Maybe a week or two later you find them back in the same shape again.
I just wonder about those people. I found them in healing services. I've seen people come to the platform, totally blind. And come and take--after being prayed for and be healed and read the Bible, walk down there and praising God. And meet them in six months and be just as blind as they was in the first place.


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