<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 Someone said not long ago to me, said, "Mr. Branham, I don't care how many blind eyes that come open, how many deaf see," said, "I do not believe it's so."
I said, "It wasn't written for you. Divine healing promise was only written to believers and you are a unbeliever. It's only for those who believe." Salvation is for those who believe.
And when God looked down upon Adam's fallen race, and He so loved the race of Adam, He seen their condition, and it so constrained Him to love. And when love begins to go out, and when Divine love has been projected and come to it's end, sovereign grace will project the object that Divine love calls for. That's the reason God had to do something about the sin case, for He so loved Adam's race, and His Divine love went out, sovereign grace sent a Saviour.

L-14 And when man lays sick, and afflicted, and in the condition that they are in, the love of God had to produce something for them. God doesn't want you to be sick. And when anybody teaches you that it's God's will for you to be sick, then if it's God's will for you to be sick, Jesus defied every law of God when He healed the sick that was brought to Him. He did what the Father told Him not to do. Just might as well face the issue; it's lack of faith, is what's the matter with us. "All things are possible to them that can believe." And this is God's pardon.
Now, there's something about a man that's a part of God. He's a fallen race. He's a fallen son. And now, and in one sense of the word, a man in himself is a creator, miniature creator. Now, he cannot actually create, because God does that. But he can take the things that God has made and the--the wood that God growed and build a building out of it. He can take that--the steel that God created and do something else with it. He can take the electricity that God sends in the air and make it light up a building. That's a man.

L-15 Now, I want to ask you something. Let's let our collars down just a minute. Did you ever see a person that's a good person, you think they are nice, but there's just something about the person you just don't like to be around them? Certainly you do. And then, you've seen people that you just love to be around. What is it? It's that creative power that's upon the people that create an atmosphere around where they're at. If they're full of love, not make-belief, but real love, you can feel it. You know that they're Christians. They shake your hand, say, "I'm your friend, John." You can feel it.
You might not agree with me. But I'm thinking of my friend Paul Rader. Now, I believe in heartfelt religion.

L-16 I noticed tonight we have some colored friends with us. And an old colored man said, once down in the south; his boss said, "There is no such a thing as heartfelt religion."
He said, "Just one thing you lack, boss, in saying, 'There's no such a thing as heartfelt religion, as far as you know.'"
He knowed different. And I believe in heartfelt religion. I believe that you feel it, that God gives you something inside of you that changes you. It makes the atmosphere around you different. I've tried that. I know it's the truth, that man create in himself the atmosphere that he lives in. And around him he's anointed with a spirit.
I have seen people that you just couldn't get away from them; you just loved them. There's something drawing about them. It's because they live in that atmosphere, they live under the--the power of the Holy Spirit.


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