<TITLE>03. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 Over in the book of St. Luke just for a little Scripture reading for a context tonight. I would like to read in the--in the 18th chapter and the 37th verse.
And they said unto him, that Jesus of Nazareth passes by.
And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
You say, "That's an awful small Scripture reading, Mr. Branham, to accommodate a group of people like this tonight in you're last night in the city."
You see, that is a small Scripture reading. But it isn't how small it is; it's how valuable it is. The value is laid not on quantity, but quality. Just a little bit.

L-10 But sometime ago in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, just across from our little city, I had a little boy friend over there who was rambling around in an old garret one day, and he found a--an old trunk. And he was looking through this certain trunk, and he found a little old yellow postage stamp of about one half inch square. And he thought this was a grand thing, that he might be able to have five cents out of it, that he would go get him an ice cream.
So he hurries down the street to a stamp collector, and he said, "Sir, how much will you give me for this stamp?"
And the collector immediately taken his glass and looked it over; he said, "I'll give you a dollar for that stamp."
He said, "You've made the sale." And he sold him the stamp for one dollar.

L-11 'Course the little lad with, in his mind was ice cream, took down the street to buy his ice cream. In about three weeks that man sold that stamp for five hundred dollars. Later is was sold for twenty-five hundred dollars. And the last I heard of that stamp, it's worth a quarter of a million dollars.
You see, the little yellow piece of paper, it was not the value of the paper. It was the value was what was wrote on the paper. And that's what this little Scripture reading is tonight. It isn't how much it is; it's what it is that's wrote on it. The paper is ordinary paper that you make here in your mill. But that what is wrote on there is the infallible Word of the immortal God.

L-12 And no man is worth any more than his word. If I cannot take your word, then I won't have any dealings with you. If you can't take my word, you could not trust me.
So that's the way it is with God. If He has made a promise, He must keep that promise. If he doesn't keep that promise, then He isn't God. And if a certain crisis arises, and God acts on that crisis, then He has to act the same the second time that He acts, or He acted wrong when He acted the first time.

L-13 If someone was sick, and God was consulted, and God healed that person, then on the second time someone gets sick, and God is consulted, He's got to heal the second time, or He did wrong when He acted the first time. For God is infinite. We are finite. We get smarter. As... And our generations gets brighter and more intelligent. Our scientist move on. But God, being infinite, He has to be perfect all the time. He cannot get smarter or cannot lose any of His intelligence. He has to remain the same.
There's where our confidence can rest solemnly upon what He says to be the Truth. If it isn't, then I--I can't believe Him. And if this Bible doesn't--if the promises He made in this Bible is not true, then it is not the Bible or there is no God. But if the Bible promises are true and God confirms them promises, then He is God of the Bible, which is His Word. Just as plain as it could be.


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