<TITLE>14. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 How many in the building tonight has never been in one of our services before? Let's see your hand. Not too many, that's good. Glad to see the crowd maintaining their position. I don't like to see people just come and fill up one night and go back and say, "Oh, that's enough for me." Shows something's wrong. See? Oh, if I eat a cracker day before yesterday, that might be all right, but I got to have one every once in a while. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God."
To you that's here for your first time, I do not claim to be a healer, my dear friend. No one else is a healer. God's the Healer. I believe that Divine healing is something that God did for us through His Son Jesus when He was sacrificed at Calvary.

L-43 This just comes on my mind; I must say it. Some time ago I was with a studio where Charles Fuller and Stewart Hamblen, many of them had been in there to have their picture taken. And I happened to be called by--to the same studio. And so this young fellow in there had just come out of the--of a fundamental school, and he certainly had the education. And he said to my manager; he said, "I would like for you to leave Mr. Branham here." I looked over, because when I go to breakfasts they use them great big words; I don't know what they're talking about. I set next to the manager, if I don't know what they're talking about, I kick him with my knee and he talks from there on. So he said, "I'd like you to leave Mr. Branham here." Something in me told me he was going to put me to question. So finally Mr. Baxter said, "All right, but you have him there in thirty minutes."
Said, "I want to take some side views." I knew that wasn't exactly right. So as soon as he left, he said, "Mr. Branham, I want to tell you; as a man I respect you. But your theology is wrong."
I said, "What's wrong with it, sir?"
He said, "Well, the first thing," he said, "do you teach Divine healing by the atonement?"
I said, "Every redemptive blessing comes from the atonement."
"Well," he said, "Mr. Branham, if Divine healing was in the atonement there would be no more pain."
I said, "Is salvation of the soul in the atonement, sir?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Is there temptation?"
"Sure."
I said, "Then there's pain."

L-44 He went to using some great big words; I said, "I've been among the Pentecostal people for a long time, but I've never got the gift of interpretation. Speak to me in King James." See? I said, "I don't know what you're talking about." I said, "You're talking another tongue to me, sir. I'm just a hillbilly. But I do know the Lord Jesus. I may not know the Book too well, but I know the Author." And I said, "Just talk to me in plain words."
He said, "Do you apply the Divine healing in the atonement that Isaiah said back there?"
I said, "Yes, sir, that's it exactly."
He said, "I believe that you're a conscientious man, Mr. Branham." He said, "If I prove to you by the Bible that that was done away with, will you be man enough and gentleman enough to accept it?"
I said, "Certainly, I certainly do."
He said, "Matthew, I believe the 8th chapter, they brought to Him them that was sick and afflicted and He healed them that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, 'He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.'"
I said, "Then you mean that the atonement that He was speaking of Isaiah was fulfilled there?"
He said, "Certainly."
I said, "Then who was the man at the gate healed by and the rest of them?" I said, "Sir, that was a year and six months before the atonement was ever made. Then the atonement had more power before it come into affect then it has after it's come in effect."


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