<TITLE>13. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 Over here please. Here's a man standing before me with a gray suit on. He's got a stripped tie. Quite a bit larger than I am. How many believes that? Why? You see.
Step back this way. Now, I cannot see the man. It's impossible for me to see him. But do you want to argue with me he's not there? I know he's there just as well as if I was looking at him. And I can't see him. Then seeing is not believing.
I've got a sense of feeling. And I can feel him. And the sense of feeling is just as reliable as the sense of seeing. How many senses are there in the human body? Five: See, taste, feel, smell and hear. Now, I now I can contact him in my sense of feeling. Now, I cannot contact him in my sense of feeling; it's dormant. But my sense of sight says he's there. Now, seeing is believing now. But feeling is believing now.
Where's the pianist? Organist, or something? Give us a little note, would you sister? How many believes there's music, let's see your hands. How many of you sees it, raise your hand. Did you see it? Well, why did you raise your hands for, then if seeing is believing? Hearing is believing now, isn't it? See, hearing is believing.

L-47 Now, what is faith? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. You believe it. Your body has five senses; none of them senses contact God. God give you them five senses to contact your earthly home, here on earth.
But you contact God by faith. That's the... This great mechanical age that we live in, people's got--has got it scientifically prove it. Like Moses, if he was standing there at the bush... What if he'd been a modern man today and the bush was on fire? What if he said, "Now, wait a minute; I'm going to take this bush, some leaves off of it; and I'm going down to the laboratory to give a chemical test and find out why them leaves didn't burn and got fire on them." See?
In those days, when a miracle was done they took a man's word for it and went on. Because they knowed it was supernatural. But today they got to run it through the scientific test. And you can't prove God by scientific tests. God is believed. And you know Him by faith.

L-48 A fellow said to me not long ago, he said, "Brother Branham, anything that's not scientifically proven is not real."
I said, "I will just contradict that brother and say anything that is scientifically prove isn't real."
"Oh," he said, "that don't sound intelligent."
I said, "I know it don't sound intelligent, but it's correctly intelligent. The real things of life cannot be scientifically proven."
He said, "If it isn't scientifically proven I can't accept it."
I said, "Are you a married man?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
"You love your wife?"
"Yes."
I said, "Scientifically tell me what love is. What part of you--show--pull it out here an let me see it; analyze it; let me see what part's love that makes you love that woman different from anyone else, makes you love your children different from other children, what's scientific?" I said, "Have you got any mind?"
He said, "Certainly."
I said, "Scientifically show me what your mind is."
Can't be done, certainly, but it's real. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, all those are God, and they're the real thing. The scientific things are perishable, come from the earth. But the unscientific things are the real things that come from heaven: God, Holy Spirit, Angels, supernatural; they are the everlasting things. Believe on the Lord; don't try to scientifically prove anything; just have faith in God.


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