<TITLE>07. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Some fellow come to me not long ago, and he said, "Brother Branham, do you think it's wrong for a Christian to smoke tobacco?"
And I said, "What are you asking me for? If there's a question in your mind, leave it alone. Don't never..."
You can't have faith unless you're perfectly sure that you're right. When all shadows is drifted away, then you can have faith and confidence. And I could not walk out there and preach that Scripture, not knowing what I was talking about. But yet, I knew It was of the Lord.

L-27 Many you people bear me record, that for the last two years, you've constantly heard me from this platform say that there's something, something somewhere. And I'm reaching; I know it's close at hand. I just can't seem to grasp it.
I say, "I hit a Scripture, now I don't know what to do, because Scriptures..." Though you might put an interpretation... If someone would've asked me, I'd said something to them, and walked away, and turned it off on something else. But to face the issue...
Just like we've got to face the issue: Is the baptism of the Holy Ghost right or wrong? We've got to face the issue: Is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? Is it right or wrong? We got to face it. We must know that God's Word is always true.

L-28 So on it went, and up and down, and I'd get it in my mind, and I just couldn't get it away. And everywhere I'd go, it would constantly come to me. "If you say to this mountain, 'Be thou plucked up and cast into the sea,' and don't doubt in your heart, but shall believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you have said."
I thought, "How can it be, Lord. That would be me saying it. I would... It wouldn't do no good, for it would be me saying it. So I can't say nothing but what You've said, and I--I just say that by the Scriptures."
And all things rested in the atonement. There's no blessings outside of the atonement, 'cause we are sinners outside of the atonement. If it was just a universal thing for everybody, then everybody would be saved. But it's your attitude towards the blessings of the atonement that brings the blessings to you.
Like salvation. As far as God was concerned, I was saved when Jesus died. But it'll never do me no good until it's revealed to me that He's the Son of God, and I've accepted Him as my Saviour. And every Scripture is the same way.
Divine healing's for you if God will reveal that to you that that's for you. But you can't just stumble at it. It's got to come by revelation. And when it's revealed that "By His stripes you were healed," there's nothing Satan can even do as our young brother from Sellersburg said, "All the devils couldn't move it." Sure. When something is revealed...


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