<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Now, I'd like to just ask you something. I made a statement a few moments ago, that there was no healing in medicine. Now, we do not claim that we come here to--to tell the doctor, "You're no more in the game." No, sir. We come here to pray for your patient, doctor. I come to pray for the doctor's patient, God's child, my friend. I do not want to take a patient from a doctor. A doctor has his place, and we highly respect that. And we're praying daily for scientists and so forth to find medical realms in surgery that'll help all the sick and needy.
But there never was a medicine that ever healed any man, and never was a person who ever said it that was mentally right. God said in Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases." If that's wrong, then the rest of it's wrong. Every Word of God is true. There can be no other...
If God's wrong in one place, He's wrong in every place. If He's right, He's right. If this is the truth, then it is the truth. If it isn't the truth, then it isn't the truth. So I would have nothing to do with anything that wasn't the truth. I wouldn't be here tonight, only as I know it to be the truth.

L-10 Let me just show you a little simple thing. What if I cut my hand tonight with a knife here on the platform, or my hand was cut with a knife? Now, we haven't got enough medicine in the world to heal that knife cut in my hand. It just won't do it. We haven't got no medicine that'll heal a knife cut. If I had a medicine that would heal a knife cut in my hand, it would heal a knife cut in my coat. It would heal a knife cut in this floor or this desk. If it'll heal a knife cut, it'll heal it anywhere the knife cut is.

L-11 You say, "Mr. Branham, medicine wasn't made to heal your coat and your desk. It was made to heal your body." All right. If I have a knife cut in my hand, and I fall down dead, and you would take my body down here to an undertaker's morgue, and they would embalm my body with a fluid that would make me look natural for fifty years, and every day one of our best doctors would come give me a shot of penicillin, give me sulfa drug, pour in Merthiolate, all kinds of salves and liniments, and all the remedies that we have, fifty years from today that cut would look just exactly like it did the hour it was cut. Then if medicine's made to heal the human body, why don't it heal it?
If I went out here to crank my car and broke my arm, and it--it killed me, and they went and set my arm, put the best of splints on it, rubbed all kinds of liniments and stuff over my arms, and I would look natural for fifty years, that arm would still be broke just like it was the day I broke it. Well, then if medicine is the healer, why doesn't it heal the human body?

L-12 Then you say to me, "Why, Brother Branham, why, the reason it doesn't because the life is gone out of you. That's it." Then which is the healer, the medicine or the life? Life is the healer. And then God is Life. Life does the healing. Medicine doesn't build tissue. Medicine doesn't develop cells. Medicine only keeps clean while God develops cells, grows, mends your arm, heals up the cut place. So medicine doesn't heal. Medicine is an assistance.
Someone said to me long ago, said, "Then what about pneumonia?" If you got pneumonia, the doctor gives you penicillin. So what does penicillin do? I said, "If you had your house full of rats, and they were eating holes through the plaster and all over the floor: rats. And you put out rat poison and killed all the rats, it might kill the rats, but it won't patch the holes that they eat."
I said, "That's what penicillin is. It kills the flu germ, but it doesn't patch the cells that's been tore down. God has to do that." So He's the only Healer. God is the Healer. And then it's your faith in God. And many people have faith subconsciously and doesn't know it.


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