<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 There's people today... It's just like this: a man dying on the doorsteps of a doctor's office, when the doctor in the building has the cure for his disease, but he refuses to take it. If the man has a disease, and the doctor has the cure for it, and the man may lay on the doctor's doorsteps. But if he refuses to take his medicine, he will die on the doorstep. You can't blame the doctor. The doctor would give him the medicine that would cure him, if he'd only come, take it. But it isn't the doctor's fault, he's got the remedy, but the man's too stubborn to take it. Then whose fault is it?
So is it today, that many people die in front of the church, on the steps, in the pews, die in their sins because they refuse to accept God's Balm that's in Gilead. They die in their sins because they refuse it, not because there isn't any there; but they just refuse to take it. Then what will they take? They have to take something false instead. It's not because there's none there, because there is. But men and women just refuse to take it, and they die, die in the church, set in the meetings and listen night after night to inspired prophets of God, who's takes the Word fearlessly and lays it out, "Ye must be borned again." Men and women set in the pews and die, and sink into utter despair, and annihilated from God. Not because there's not grace and salvation, but because they refuse to receive it.

L-14 "Is there no Balm in Gilead? Then why is the daughter of My people so sick? Isn't there a physician there to minister this?" Sure there is. God has His prophets yet. God has His Balm yet. And God's daughter is sick, and she hasn't recovered. But it isn't because that there's no Balm; there isn't because that there's no prophet; but it's because the daughter refused to take the medicine. That's true.
Medicine, if you refuse the medicine, then there's nothing to be done.

L-15 Now, medicine has to be tested. They take medicine and they... First, when they find a toxine that they think that's for some ailment, they try it on guinea pigs. And they take the toxine, after the science has worked on it for a long time, and they shoot it into a little guinea pig, and they watch his reaction. If it doesn't hurt the little guinea pig, then they use it on human beings.
But medicine is a chance to take. For some medicines that will help one human being, might kill another. So you have to watch that, because that it's--it's... Sometimes you must be sure that you know what you're doing, and let a doctor that knows how to give it, give it to you, someone that you got confidence in.

L-16 And now, we are--hear so much today about heart disease. They say that heart trouble is the number one killer in America. Heart trouble isn't the number one killer; it's sin that's the number one killer in America. Sin is what does the killing. Medicine... You might be able to patch up your body a little while. And that body is going to die anyhow. It's going back to the dust of the earth. But that soul will live somewhere forever. That's the killer, is sin to the soul. That's number one killer in America.
So many people say, "I just got to do this. I just got to do that."
Someone said to me not long ago, said, "Billy, I'd... I'd--I would love to be a Christian, but I had a habit that I inherited it from my father." And he said, "That habit is playing cards, gambling." He said, "It's worse than any other habit." And he said, "I just have to play cards."


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