<TITLE>09. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 But how much more dangerous is it to pour out the balm of God--God's remedy. Make fun of it and call if fanaticism, blaspheme the Holy Ghost. There'll be no excuses when you're asked why. It's a dangerous thing to do that, dangerous to neglect your body. Well, the medicine if the doctor's got it for your ailment... More dangerous to neglect the balm for your soul, 'cause God's got it.
Now, you can't lay it on say, "Well, it ain't... It's the doctor's fault." No. "They haven't got the medicine." They got it. You can't say... It isn't God's fault. It's your fault if you don't get it. It's here for you and an invitation to whosoever will: Methodist, Baptists, Presbyterian.
Pentecost is not an organization. I know they try to organize it, but you can't. Pentecost is an experience that goes to Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Catholic, whosoever will let him come. Black, white, yellow, brown, whoever he is. It's God's remedy. It's His balm for sin. There is a Balm in Gilead. Someday we're going to ask why we didn't take it.

L-32 Now, sometimes in taking medicine... Sometimes the medicine's not... It's good. The Bible says it is. "A merry heart doeth good like medicine." Notice, but sometimes medicine won't always work the same on the person, and you have to take a chance on that.
I was amazed here in Africa, if there might be a doctor near. How that God takes care of His people. A native told me that when they got a sore that wouldn't heal up, they would go out under an old wild orange tree, and--and get an orange that was covered all over with mold and rub that mold in that sore--penicillin. They knowed it hundreds of years ago, and we just found it out recently. Then we think they're dumb.
God takes care of His own. If we'd spend more time praying, there'd be more things done.

L-33 Now, we notice that sometimes we can give a patient penicillin for pneumonia. It'll kill the germ, and then sometimes we give it to another one, it kills the patient. You can't be too sure about it.
I was talking one time making an expression how that medicine did not heal. Medicine is only an aid to nature when I was interviewed at Mayo's. That's what they told me. Cut your hand. Medicine don't heal your hand. You put medicine on it to keep it clean while God heals it. God builds tissue. Medicine doesn't build tissue. If I broke my arm and said, "Doctor, you're a healer. Heal my arm."
He'd say, "Mr. Branham, you need mental healing." That's right. The doctor can set my arm. That's what he does. He studies it how to put it together, but God has to heal it. That's right. 'Cause He furnishes the calcium and the life that knits that bone together. God heals it. So Psalms 103:3 says, "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." That's correct. God--God heals ever...

L-34 There never was medicine that healed. Any medicine that'd heal a cut in my hand would heal a cut in my coat, as I've often said. You say, "Medicine wasn't made for your coat. It was made for your hand." Let me cut my hand and die right here then. You sew my hand up, and take me down to the morgue, and--and embalm my body with a fluid that'll look natural for fifty years, and give me a shot of penicillin ever day, and put salve on it; and in fifty years from now if my body was still there, the cut would be there too, for it won't heal my body. You say, "Life's gone out of it." Then what you healed, medicine or life? Life. Tell me what life is, and I'll tell you Who God is. God is Life, Eternal Life to help this life.
Someone said then, "What about penicillin? Shoot penicillin into you."
I said, "Well, penicillin is just like rat poison. You got a house full of rats eating holes in the house. You put out some rat poison and kills the rats. It doesn't patch the holes. Penicillins kills the germ, but God has to heal the cells that's been damaged by it. So God is the Healer. It's correct.


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