<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 And just recently where Brother Moore and I was up here at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I got a letter one day from a Lutheran dean that really tore me to pieces. He had twenty-two pages in it. And he said, "The very idea of last night. I drove," he said, "fifteen miles (I believe,) through a blinding snowstorm; thought I could hear a--a man of God. And what did I see but a polished up soothsayer," and just everything ridiculous. And said, "The very idea. A man that preaches to the people that you do, and would say that the devil didn't have power to heal." And he just, oh, he just laid me out on it.
"Well," I thought, "that's... I love good criticism. If it's decent like that." So I turned around and answered his letter back. And he said, "Now, you was talking about you've been preaching for twenty-five years." Said, "I was preaching before you were borned." And said... Went ahead telling me all those things, then, that was all right.

L-24 I wrote him a letter back, and I said, "My dear, beloved brother, I appreciate you, and you... I know that you must love me. If you don't love me, you love the Lord that I speak about, because you're trying to correct me. If you didn't love me, you wouldn't try to correct me. And I believe that in your heart, you're trying to correct me. And now, if I'm wrong, I wish to be corrected."
And I said, "The first thing, you said the things that you seen last night was by the power of a soothsayer." I said, "When Jesus Christ did the same things that you seen last night, they said He was Beelzebub. And Jesus said, 'You speak a word against Me doing this (in other words), it'll be forgiven you; but when the Holy Spirit is come to do the same thing, Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, one word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come.'"
I said, "Now, what if I was right? Remember the Pharisees, many of those Pharisees and--and priests of that day had preached a lot longer than you have, and they were sages. But their eyes were actually blind to that, and they couldn't understand it."

L-25 But I said, "I want to ask you something, my dear brother. On your condemning me for saying the devil could--couldn't heal, the devil cannot heal." And I said, "Jesus said he could not heal; and if Jesus said he could not heal, that settles it as far as I'm concerned." See?
Jesus said if Satan can cast out Satan, then his Kingdom's divided, and he can't stand. Satan cannot cast out Satan, but here's what his reason he give me. He said there was a--a woman lived in his town that had a--a spirit of evil, that the people come to her, and she plucked some of the blood out of her veins, and pulled a hair out of their head, or vice versa, one. And wound the blood and the hair together, and walked down to the river behind her, and throwed it over her shoulder. If she was constrained to look back, then the disease come back to the people. If--if she wasn't constrained to look back, they got well. And he said, "Twenty percent of those people or more'd get well. And then you tell me the devil can't heal."
I said, "I'm..." Wrote and answered him, and I said, "I am certainly surprised that a Lutheran dean would base his theology upon an experience in the stead of the Word of God."
I said, "God's Bible said he cannot heal." But I said, "If you'll excuse me, I'll explain it. There's many people in the land today who say... Healers, claim to be healers, claim to have power to heal, and people go and get healed. Sure." But I said, "I seen witch doctors in Africa. People go to idols and get healed."


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