<TITLE>03. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 And I said, "But now, to answer your--give you to my opinion of your answer to your question that you was condemning me on," I said, "that reminds me a whole lot of the things that's going in the world today, Pentecostal fantastics." I said, "Certainly, I believe that people were healed. I believe that every one that comes approaching will be healed." And I said, "But it isn't the witch that's doing the healing, no more than it is these fellows say, 'I got healing in my hands. Feel it, feel it, feel it.' No, you don't. You might feel their hand, but you don't feel any healing. It's a finished work. It's already done. See? So and all these different things that they do..."
I said, "I don't believe those fellows ever healed anybody. And I don't believe the witch ever healed anybody. But what brings the healing is the individual's faith, thinking they're approaching God through that witch. And God's got to honor faith, I don't care where it's at. See? So it's their faith, thinking they're approaching..."

L-8 I've seen heathens kneel at idols and get healing (See?), sure, Divine healing from God through the idol. But it's their faith. They believe that God is in the idol, and they got faith, and they believe it and God's got to recognize that faith, because them things are based upon faith.
Healing is not based upon your works, or your good deeds, or your experience of Christianity, and upon your salvation of your soul; healing... I've seen people come through the line was renowned saints, and go right off the platform sick yet. I've seen ill famed people walk through and be healed with blinded eyes and everything. See? It's based upon your--your faith, not upon your religion, not upon your experience. It's on faith.

L-9 So last time over there...?... He wrote me a letter back and he said, "Mr. Branham, I hear you're coming back for the Christian Businessmen's international convention, to speak." Said, "Could I have a few words with you?" I referred him to the manager, and the manager told him, "All right." So when he got there that morning, here he was. So went back out to the college, beautiful place way out there. And when we went in, he had dinner set for us, or you all call it lunch here. Down south, if I call it lunch, I--I miss a meal. And it's breakfast, dinner, and supper to me. I--I just...
So we... This was--this was dinner time for us. And so we went out there, and they had a great, oh, a beautiful place, hundreds of acres where the students could work their way through and so forth, pay their tuition. And he had seventy something students setting there.

L-10 And after we had our dinner, he said, "I want to ask you a question, Mr. Branham."
I said, "Yes, sir." And I thought, "Oh, my, here it comes now, Lutheran dean."
He said, "I've been down to the Pentecostals, and see them kick the furniture around and everything like that. But I want to ask you: Is anything to it?"
I said, "Yes, sir, there is." I said, "It's like a little kid, when he gets a toy, he just falls." And I said, "Like Ezekiel said, there's a valley full of dry bones. He said, 'Can these live?' He said, 'Thou knowest.' So he said, 'Prophesy to the dry bones.' And when the bones come together, there was a rattling and a shaking, lot of noise. But then when the skin come on, or the meat come on them, there wasn't much noise. He said, 'Prophesy to the Spirit now.' See? I think that's what's going on. See?" So I said, "They... I see them make a lot of noise." I said, "I think the bones are coming together."


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