<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Am I'm looking at the little alcoholic that was healed in the Hammond meeting? God bless you, sister. I just happened to recognize you. I can't think of your name right now, and yet I've seen you and talked with you. One of the... from...
If there'd happen to be an alcoholic here tonight, and the Alcoholic Anonymous has failed and all, here sets a beautiful little lady setting here, that was a past Alcoholic Anonymous and all, and Jesus Christ called her and made her well, solemnly, soberly, and setting here now perfectly normal and well. And that's been two or three years ago, hasn't it? [Sister says, "Four years."--Ed.] Four years ago. I wonder, sister, if you'd just stand up just for a minute. How many would like to see her? Just raise your hand. There she is, an answer to the power of God.
When God in the room called a little women, and told her what she was, and who she was, and all about her, and told her what she was, and God taken the drink away from her right then. And she's not a glorifying her drinking, but she's glorifying Christ Who took it from her. And if you think you can't get rid of cigarettes, tobacco, and dope, and alcohol, and things like that, talk to her a minute. She can tell you where salvation lays. Now... Oh, yes, and the opium needle, or anything else, marijuana, whatever it is, Christ delivers perfectly.

L-13 Now, the... You can't rest your faith, as I say, upon just anything. You've got to have some basic fact. And reason that I rest my faith upon this Word, because I believe it to be the Word of God. And then if it is the Word of God, it's God Himself in Word form. That's right.
Now, then if that's God Himself... And no man is any better than his word. If I write you a declaration here tonight of something that I'll do, now I'm no better than that word is. And that word is a part of me; it's my word. And if this is God's written Word, it--it can be no less then God Himself, because He's obligated to His Word. Now, you believe that?

L-14 A minister, some time ago, when there's a group of men that'd been in, Stewart Hamilton, many of them have pictures taken at a studio, they wanted me to come down and have a picture taken. And a young scholar, was very scholarly, that's true. And he was wanting to get the manger away from me, 'cause he knowed I had no education, and he'd just pick me to pieces. So finally he managed a way to do it. And he said to the manager, Mr. Baxter, he said, "If you go on to the meeting, I want to speak with Mr. Branham just a moment."
And he said, "No, I can't do that."
He said, "Mr. Baxter, I'll have him there just in a little while if you'll just grant me this privilege, 'cause I want to talk to him, and the meeting's due at this time." So finally, Brother Baxter looked at me, and I nodded my head to him; he went on.

L-15 And he said, "Now, Mr. Branham, as a man I admire you. But in your theology, you're as wrong as day is from night."
And I said, "Thank you for the compliment." I said, "But I--I like you too."
And so he said, "I believe that you'd be honest enough to be proven wrong, that you would accept it."
I said, "Absolutely, brother. I..."
He said, "Now as your preaching," said, "and your salvation message, there's nothing wrong with that. It's--it's all right." He said, "But as your doctrine of Divine healing, it's absolutely wrong." And he said, "It's wrong by the Scripture."
And I said, "Well, I'm--I don't aim for it to be, my brother."
He said, "Well, it is. It's absolutely wrong."
And I said, "Well, maybe then you could correct me."
He said, "Do you preach Divine healing by--through the atonement?"
I said, "Every redemptive blessing has to come through the atonement, 'cause that's how it was made. The attributes of the death of Jesus Christ brings us Divine healing."


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