<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Why, she said, "Certainly, I'd be glad to." And said, "The pastor come up, and read some out of the Bible, and--and anointed me with oil, prayed me--over me." And said, "The next morning the Lord had healed me, and I was well."
"Oh," he said, "Mother," he said, "Surely, you don't believe that?"
She said, "Well, son, it surely happened."
"Why," said, "Look," said, "where did he read from?"
"Why," said, "He read from Mark 16. And he said... He read like this: These signs shall follow them that believe. And he read it out of a Bible, honey."
"Oh," he said, "Mother," said, "you can't..." Said, "Them people are holy-rollers." Said, "You can't pay no attention to what they say."
"Why," she said, "Holy-roller or no holy-roller, they answered the prayer--God did."
"Why," he said, "Mother," he said, "there's no such a thing as Divine healing." Said, "We learned that in school." Said, "There's no such a thing as Divine healing."
She said, "Honey, he read it out of the Bible."
"Why," said, "Mother, you see those people are not educated." Said, "You see, at the school, we learned that Mark the 16th chapter, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired."
She said, "Hallelujah!"
"Why," he said, "Mother, you're acting like them. The very audacity..." Said, "Why, you're acting like them." Said, "What's the matter with you?"
She said, "I was just a thinking."
Said, "What was you thinking?"
Said, "If God could heal me with the uninspired Word, what could He do with that was really inspired?" So--so, that's right. "What would that inspired part do, if the uninspired will do it?" Oh, It was all inspired.

L-16 The people today... You will hear it though. The medical doctor will say, "Well, don't you pay any attention to that saw bone--that surgeon."
Surgeon will say, "You need an operation, not sugar pills."
And the both of them would say, "The chiropractor, don't have nothing to do with him." And the chiropractors, they have nothing to do with the osteopath. And they'll all say, "Have nothing to do with preacher."
You know what I think? I think it's selfish motives, because we all know that medicine does good; surgery does good, chiropractic and osteopathic; and so does the preacher. Look, if they had the right motive, we would all go arm in arm to do everything we can in our powers and our ability, to make the journey of our pilgrim friends a little more happier as we go along through life. Anything different from that is selfishness, and money motive, or something behind it. Yes, sir.

L-17 Today, you could speak of a miracle. They want to take and examine it and scientifically prove it. Well, you can't scientifically prove God. There's... You--your knowledge in science takes you away from God. You don't know God by knowledge. You don't know God by science. You know God by faith, and that's the only way you can find God, is by faith you know God.
There was two trees in the garden of Eden. One of them was knowledge and the other one was faith. And when man left the Tree of faith--Life, and took a bite off the tree of knowledge, he separated his fellowship from God. Every time he takes a bite, he takes hisself farther away. You can never find God on that tree. It's this tree you find Him on, over here, the Tree of Life which is by faith. "By faith are you saved, and that by grace."


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