<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 Now, the order of our meeting... In America it's hard for the people to see it, the American people. My greatest meetings have been held in Switzerland, Germany, and--and Africa, and India where as many as five hundred thousand people attend at one time. Thirty thousand at a time receive Christ, and--and twenty-five thousand healed at one--one instant, car loads of crutches and things taken from one--one prayer over the people.
We people in America are intellectual. We want to be entertained. And it's all intellectual. We're well fed; we're well-educated, too well. And then we get to a place till we know more than God does. The more simpler you can be, the more you'll understand God.

L-14 Not as I'm trying to use that crutches for my own ignorance and my lack of education. I'm not doing that. I'm only trying to make a point to say this: education's all right in its field, but education and religion doesn't go together, not by a long ways. Education, science has been the greatest hindrance the Gospel's ever had.
In the garden of Eden there were two trees, one were science, the other one was faith. When man left the Tree of Life, faith, and took a first bite off of the tree of knowledge, science, he destroyed his fellowship with his Maker. Every time he bites a bite off of that tree, he still separates himself from God.
So you don't know God by education. You don't know Him by the scientific researches. You know God by simple child faith. That's the way you know God, forgetting your education, forgetting all the other things and just simply know that you're a creature of His creation. There you know God by that, simple as that.

L-15 And when you try to confine God to one little denomination or one little action, you're limiting yourself. God covers all places, He... He's everywhere. God is all powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, knows all things, can be anywhere any time, and He's all powerful. If you get to know how great He is, then you can know something about His power. Look at the universe; look at the stars; look at the trees, and you can see Who God is.
Now, the American people has been taught an old Jewish custom, laying hands on the sick. Someone has said to me many times, "Brother Branham, Oral Roberts will pray for five hundred while you're getting three. While you're praying for three people, Oral will pray for five hundred."

L-16 That--that's true. But you see, I can't be Oral Roberts although he's my bosom friend and a wonderful man of God. Yet I cannot be Oral Roberts; Oral Roberts cannot be William Branham. We both have a ministry. Oral Roberts is doing what God tells him to do. I'm doing what God tells me to do.
Now, we've been taught a--a custom, laying on of hands. "Lay your hands upon me." That was a Jewish custom. If you'll follow in the Scripture, the Jew said, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter, and she'll live."
But the Gentile, he said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof; just speak the word, and my servant will live."
Jesus never said to Jairus, "Great is your faith, Jairus." But He said to the Gentile, "I've never seen such faith as that in Israel." That's what we can't hardly train the American people to do is to receive Christ and what He said.


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