<TITLE>05. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 Now, in I Corinthians the 10th chapter, beginning with the 12th verse:
Wherefore let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall.
There has no temptation taken you but such is common to man: but God is faithful, who is not--who willing that you--not to suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able; but with every temptation also make a way of escape, that we may be able to bear it.
What a beautiful verse. May the Lord add His blessings to that Word. "Making A Way" would be what I'd like to speak on tonight. You know, may He add His blessing to His Word, as we listen now to the Word.

L-19 It's my opinion that if the Word, which is the grass roots, which is the thing that takes hold... Many times in my healing services, I--I try to, even after the teachers has already went through it all, I try to come back and--and take the Word and lay a foundation.
A few nights ago I got a little letter of criticism, which was fine. A man told me, said, "Brother Branham, you're just a boy yet." Said, "I was preaching the Gospel 'fore you was born." And he said, "I..." All of my forty-six years, but yet... He--he was a teacher of some Bible school. And he said, "But a man that--of your kind, that teaches people, and yet would make a remark that you made the other night." Said, "I think it's ridiculous." Said, "You said that the devil didn't have no power to heal." He said, "Perhaps, what if I tell you that the devil has got power to heal?" Said, "Now, you'd ask me, if you were standing present, why I know." Said, "I'll tell you."

L-20 Said, "In our town there's a woman lives there which has a--a bad spirit. And she--people comes to her for healing." Said, "She'll pull hair out of their head, and she'll pluck blood from their veins, and wrap it up in his hair, walk down to the river, and cast this thing over her shoulder, and not look back, if she looks back," said, "then the disease remains with the person. But she has to throw to the river like it's forgetfulness and walk away." And said, "Sixty percent of the people, we've kept count, are healed." Said, "Now, if the devil can't heal, what about that?"

L-21 So I answered him back, I said, "My kind beloved brother, with all due regards to your years (See?), all due regards to your years of teaching, but I'll tell you now, that Jesus Christ said that the devil has no power to heal. And if Jesus said it, that settles it with me. He said, 'If Satan cast out Satan, then his kingdom's divided and it has an end.' And he cannot cast out Satan. Then you'd ask me why was these people healed? Why, it's not the person, the witch had nothing to do with it, no more than I'd have to do with it, or any other man. It's the people that's approaching, thinking that they're coming God's provided way for their healing. It's their individual faith in God that does the healing." See? That's the approach that they think. It isn't the witch, or no more than it would be the man.
If--so therefore, the Gospel can only maneuver, or it can only reach out as the Word of God is taught. And man base their hopes upon God's Eternal Word. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word."

L-22 Dr. Adair, here in the city, my beloved friend, said to me one day, he said, "Billy, don't you think if people had faith to touch the tree out there, they'd get the same results?"
I said, "How could you have faith in that? If you could have the equal amount of faith, believing that it was God's provided way for you to touch the tree, and it would do, then they could do it. But who's got faith in the tree? I got faith in what God said, and I just take that."
So faith isn't built upon the shifting sands of--of emotional conceptions. But faith is built upon the standard, God's eternal Word, the Rock of Ages. There's where faith takes its solemn resting place and never moves, when it's built right there.


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