<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 I might say to this audience this afternoon, "How many is Christians?" Perhaps ninety-five percent, or maybe a hundred, raise up their hands: They're a Christian. As long as you believe that, all right. But the minute that you begin to think that you're not, that's the time you start sinking right there. That's the time your testimony is negative. Divine healing lasts just as long as your faith lasts with it, your salvation the same. Because every--every thing of God is by faith, and nothing of God's can be proven by natural.
Look at the whole armor of God, is faith. What is the armor of God? Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, faith. Just look what goes in the armor; everything's supernatural. You cannot handle it with your hands; you have to believe it. Go down to the store and buy me a quarter's worth of Divine love; buy me a dollar's worth of faith. You cannot purchase it. It's a gift of God, and you have to believe it. You have to believe it. As long...

L-9 And then if you say that you're saved and still live for the things of the world, your fruits prove that you're not saved. Certainly. I've always said that I'm very strict; I believe holiness, exactly. And I said, I... But if you just make yourself dress like a holy person or act like a holy person, that doesn't make you a holy person. See? You'd just be making out that. But if the Spirit within you makes you live that way, then you know you're all right. That's how you judge yourself; then you're not judged. You're con... You're not condemned with the world, as long as you have judged yourself by the life that the Spirit within you makes you live. Oh, that's--that's God.

L-10 Now, in these meetings, our... We do not have what we call "major" on Divine healing. Because Divine healing is a minor, and you can never major on a minor. You--you... Divine healing is just something that God added to the church. And no one can preach salvation of the soul without preaching Divine healing for the body. It's just like if an animal had me by the side here and was just cutting my side out with his paws, there's no need of just chopping off his foot or his paw that he's got in my side. Just knock him in the head; it kills the whole animal.
Well, that's the way that Christ did when He died for sin, He killed every attribute of sin. See? He killed the whole thing. And before we had any sin, we had no sickness; sickness is an attribute of sin. Without sin, they had no sickness. And when sickness is a result of sin... And you cannot deal with sin without dealing with sickness. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." So when you stop the sin question, you also affect the sick question. All of it is taken care together. And that's why Christ died: a full man, a full death, a full resurrection, for a full church, for a full Gospel. That's right. And therefore, it all goes together. Now, we notice...

L-11 You say, "Well then, Brother Branham, you're ministry's noted as Divine healing." Sure, certainly. Divine healing attracts. It... About eighty-five percent of Jesus--Jesus' ministry was Divine healing. Did you know that? As old... The late Dr. F. F. Bosworth used to say, "You never show the fish the hook; you show him the bait. He grabs the bait, and he's got the hook."
So that's the way it is. People come to--to see the power and the miracles of God. And when they see that, they--actually God catches them with the hooks in the jaw right there, 'cause they know that there's something real.


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