<TITLE>11. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 If a man on the street... Could you imagine, you people, of seeing someone on the street that was walking down the street just as heady as they could be, and they were naked, and poor, and blind, and wretched, and disgraced? Then you'd walk to him and say, "Sir, just a minute. Here. You--you don't realize you're blind, you don't..."
"Get out of the way. I know right where I'm at, and you keep your mouth shut." There's something wrong with that person. They're mentally wrong.
Here the other day a woman in Louisville, she was taking her little boy around to the places, and the counters of the ten cent stores, and she was saying, "Look, honey." And the little fellow set staring. And she took him to another counter; she said, "Look, honey." And he just stared. And the people began to watch her.

L-44 And finally she picked up a little trinket that made a noise. She said, "Look, honey." And the little fellow just stared. And she fell across the counter, screaming.
And the people come to find out if they could comfort her, said, "What's the matter?"
Said, "He's a little human being." Said, "He's the--he's the offspring of our union, husband and I." And said, "He's got to a place that he won't even notice things that pertain to human beings. His mind has become addled, and he just stares."

L-45 If that ain't a condition of the church today. God's showing Billy Grahams, Oral Roberts, great signs and wonders, and the church says, "That's not my denomination," just stare, become spiritually insane, just stare. "Oh, this is my church." That's not the signs that follows the believer. They listen to their church and forget the Spirit of God that makes you act Christ-like, that makes you love Him and believe Him.
But what's happened? Their eyes are blinded. They can't... You say, "I have 20/20." But you see, the blindness He's talking about is spiritual blindness.
A fellow said to me sometime ago of a certain church, that don't believe that... They say they speak where the Bible speaks, and silent where it's silent. And I said, "Well, sir, what about a certain..."
He said, "I don't care what you'd say, Mr. Branham. I don't believe it."
I said, "It wasn't made for unbelievers. It wasn't sent to unbelievers. It was sent to those who believe. You're an unbeliever. And what a pitiful shape you are that the devil has blinded you."
He said to me, said, "Smite me blind then."
I said, "You already blind, sir."
He said, "My eyesight's perfect."
I said, "But your spiritual sight..."
He said, "Oh, blindness means your regular eyes."

L-46 I said, "What about Elijah down at Dothan, that day when they woke up that morning, and the Syrians had surrounded, the army had surrounded the city to come in and get Elijah, 'cause he was telling their secrets and so forth. And they hated him."
"And Gehazi woke up and said, 'Oh, my father,' he said, 'Looky here. The Syrians has the whole city surrounded, and we're in the middle of them.'"
And Elisha, that old prophet, raised up and rubbed his eyes. He said, "But there's more with us then there is with them."
Gehazi looked around, he said, "I--I--I don't see nothing, nobody but just you and I."
He said, "God, open this boy's eyes." And when his eyes come open, around that old prophet stood Angels of fire and chariots of fire by the millions. See, Gehazi was blind.

L-47 And then he said, "Come, go with me." He walked out to the chief captain, and he said--raised up his hand when he went to the gate and said, "Lord, smite them blind." And he walked out to the chief captain and said, "Are you looking for Elisha?"
He said, "Yes, sir, we are."
Said, "Come, follow me. I'll take you him."
Blind and looking right at him, blinded seeing Elisha. That's what it is tonight to church. God, be merciful. They're blind...?... know that Jesus Christ is here on earth today, the same that He was yesterday and will be forever. They're spiritually blind. They don't know that the--the devil has blinded them.


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