<TITLE>04. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13 Great movements starts, and they run out like the Methodist, the Baptist, and the Pentecostals, and all this, and the first thing you know, they get a little psychic idea, and they run out to the limb, and they're having a big time; but the first thing you know they find themselves at the end. But the only things that ever last is the eternal things. And the eternal things are God.
Now, if you notice a man known by his--his character is known by his works. If we would think of how God shows His character by His works... He's got His own character, and He made His works, and if you look at His works, how great they are.
Now, let me challenge every scientist in the world to build me one tree. Let me challenge every scientist in the world to make me one little simple sprig of grass. And it's totally impossible.

L-14 Well, it seems like then, upon thinking those things, that there could be a placing by reading the Word of faith, that would go beyond the intellectual conceptions into the heart. Jesus said, "If thou shall say in thy heart..."
Now, we get all flusterated in our minds, and we go out and say, "Oh, I seen that done; yes I..." And once in a while it just hop, skip, and so forth; but it seems like it just can't get moving right.
It's because we try to mix the intellectual with the supernatural. They have no dealings with each other at all. Intellectuals will say one thing, and supernatural will say another. And any man that's ever led by the Spirit of God does not take any thought of any intellectual, but he's led from his heart by the Spirit of God. He's misunderstood.
People say, "Oh, how could it be?"

L-15 Right now I'm getting letters and phone calls: "You mean Brother Branham, that you wouldn't be going overseas after all this great... but it looks wonderful."
But something way down inside said, "Be careful." And therefore, we don't look at what we see; we look at those things we do not see by what God says in the heart. And if we could pay attention to those things, how much more by Divine healing?
If God made the promise and it anchors in the heart, well, what good do we need intellectuals any more? I don't look at my affliction. I don't look at my symptoms. I look at what God said about it; because after all, He is the Boss, and the Supreme Boss.

L-16 If the doctor said so-and-so... Now, if you try to bluff that, it won't work. If you try to reason it in your mind saying, "Yes, God's Word's right. I believe that. I believe it will come to pass. I think that." Now, if that's intellectually, you just might as well stop thinking it.
Until something comes down on the inside of you to just says it's so, and that's all there is to it... There is not enough demons out of torment could ever shake it from you. It's something on the inside called the heart. There's where real faith finds its resting place.
Intellectuals will try to reason about it. "Now, let's us be reasonable." But faith has no reasoning. It just has one thing, and that's, "God's Word is right." Oh, there's where the soul sets its feet and rest eternally right there, for God said so. Not a bluff, but knowing it...

L-17 And the earth, being God's work, it absolutely speaks, and testifies of His being. There has to be a God, or there would be no earth. There has to be a Creator, or there'd be no creation. And if this Word that He created the earth by, gives the promise, it has to create exactly what this earth created by His Word in the beginning when God said, "Let there be." And it might took ten billion years. I don't know how long it taken. But how long it taken, that meant nothing, because God's eternal.
And He said, "Let there be." And it begin to develop, for God took His own Word and believed. And if His Word of His creation, His work here, proves that He is the Creator, then why can't we take His Word at what It says and believe It, because it's the same Creator's Word.


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