<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 There's a Balm in Gilead. There's a Physician there. But the people won't take His medicine. The local church member, lukewarm, thinks he's too good to take the medicine of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is God's medicine. It's the cure. But the local church member won't do it. They'll go to church. They'll put their name on books. They're willing to pay their tithing. They're willing to do anything like that. But when it comes to taking the medicine, they won't do it.

L-23 Now, how do we get medicine? The first thing, science begins to search out until they find a certain toxin. And then they inject that into a guinea pig. And they see how the guinea pig reacts with it. And if the guinea pig recovers, and it works out perfectly, then they'll give it to the human being.
Now, not all human beings are made like guinea pigs. You can give some medicine to a man, and it'll help one and kill the other. So, you might have an excuse for that, because medicine will help one and kill the other. So you might happen to wonder about that, but you don't have to wonder about God's Balm, God's Toxin, the Holy Ghost. It'll cure every time It's applied. It's been tested and tried, and It's perfect. The guinea pig cure is all right.

L-24 The sin of the world today, the greatest disease is not the heart disease; it's the sin disease that's killing the world. That's what's breaking up the nation today, breaking up the whole world is sin. And there's plenty of cure for it. But the people won't take it. They don't want nothing to do with it.
Just like the man setting on the doctor's steps. Here comes a man out had the same disease and he's well. Another one comes out and said, "That's fanaticism. I ain't going in there." He will die there, because he rejects to take the medicine.
And so is it. A man will die and sink into dark eternity without knowing God if he refuses the baptism of the Holy Ghost. God's Toxin is for him.
Some people say, "I just can't keep from sinning." "Brother Branham, I got a cigarette habit. I just can't quit it." "I got a drinking habit. I can't quit it." "I got a temper. I just can't get rid of it." You're only stalling. You're just refusing to use God's Toxin. It'll cure it, if you'll just take It. And sometimes it's hard, but It always does you good. It takes bad tasting medicine sometimes to do you any good.

L-25 My old mother, an old Kentucky mama... We lived down there in the hills where we eat black-eyed peas and corn bread, rendered meat skins to get the grease to put in the--the corn bread. And every Saturday night, mama'd give us a bath in the big old cedar tub. How many you Kentuckians ever seen an old cedar tub? Sure. And I want to tell you; there was no change in the water, just add a little bit more warmer water to it, from the first to the last of nine boys. And then, the next thing was to take place on Saturday night to keep from taking plaguery, the food we had to eat, she'd make us take caster oil. I can't stand the smell of the stuff yet. And I'd come holding my nose. And I'd say, "Oh, mama, it makes me so sick."
She said, "If it doesn't make you sick, it don't do you any good."
So that's the way it is with the Gospel. It's got to make you sick first at your sin so It can do you some good. Hold your nose and take It. You may have to act like a, I don't know what, but I... It's good anyhow. It'll cure sin every time.


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