<TITLE>05. Par 21-26</TITLE>L-21 Now, the doctor moves an obstruction. All right, then God develops cells and heal it. As I've said many times, "Any medicine that would heal a knife cut in my hand, would heal a knife cut in my coat, if the medicine heals knife cuts. But there's no medicine that'll heal a knife cut.
You say, "Well, now, it wasn't made for your coat, Mr. Branham. It was made for your hand." Then if I cut my hand, fall dead, and they embalm my body with the fluid that makes me look natural for fifty years, and they sew it up, give me penicillin, and sulfur drug, and all the fine medicines that we got (to which we're thankful of--or for), in fifty years from the day, that cut will look just exactly like it was when it was cut.

L-22 Then if medicine heals, why don't it heal? It can't, because the life is gone. So life develops cells, and life is God. See? He is Life. So medicine does not heal. Doctors don't claim to heal; they claim to assist nature.
I was saying that in a meeting one time, and a lady wrote a note and put it on my platform or on the pulpit. And the night before--night afterwards, rather, preceding, she said, "Well, then Mr. Branham, I pray you tell me what about penicillin then when they give you a penicillin for--for a bad cold?"

L-23 Well, I said, "My dear sister, penicillin does not heal. No medicine heals. God heals." I said, "Penicillin is like--on this basis. If your hat--house was full of rats, and they were eating holes in the pantry, and in all around the walls, and everything and you put out some rat poison and killed all the rats, that doesn't take care of the hole in the house."
That's what penicillin is, it kills the rats that's in your body, but God has to build up the tissues that the rats has tore down. He's the Creator alone. See? So no matter which way you take it, God is the Healer. He heals the soul; He heals the body. First, is the soul.

L-24 Now, Divine healing and salvation for the soul is not on the same basis. Jesus died that He might save us. When we're saved, we're saved eternally. But when we're healed, physically, we'll get sick again. But the soul is the immortal part, and Jesus said, "He that heareth My words, believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (that's present tense), Everlasting Life and it shall never come to the judgment, but is passed from death unto life." That settles it.
Then when we are borned again, we're a new creature. And that soul is a part of God. The Eternal Life there comes from the Greek word, "Zoe," which means "God's own Life." That makes us sons and daughters of God. We can no more perish than God can perish, 'cause you're a part of Him.

L-25 But you... When you're sick in your physical body, until this body has been redeemed, it's subject to sickness again. Exactly right. Now... But it's got to die. It's got to perish. So did the soul have to perish, the thoughts. The soul is the nature of the spirit. And those thoughts and so forth in you had to perish, before the new man could be borned into you to make you a new creature in Christ.
Now, in the prayer lines, which will be formed, the prayer lines will be... I don't know just what we'll do each night. We're going to try tonight by the grace of God to have prayer line.

L-26 Now, tonight the prayer cards will be given out at a--from six o'clock on till seven. I think the services start along that time. Those obtaining prayer cards must come and receive the prayer card theirself, so they can get the instructions. There'll be a speaker in the afternoon meeting giving instructions on healing of the body and so forth. Each night, altar calls are made. Bring your sinner friends.
The--this meetured--this meeting, pardon me, does not feature Divine healing; it features Jesus Christ. And Divine healing is only a bait. You never show the fish the worm--the hook, you show him the worm. He takes the bait and gets the hook.


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