<TITLE>12. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 It's just like a man, a patient, dying on a doctor's doorstep because he refuses to take his medicine. It's the same thing. He dies on the doctor's doorstep with enough medicine inside for his case, but he refuses to take it. That's not the doctor's fault. It's not the serum's fault. It's the man's fault, because he won't take the serum. That's all. And that's a dangerous thing. It certainly is. You can't say the doctor was the cause of it, and you're right on his doorstep, won't take his medicine, and yet he's got something.

L-44 Now, you say, "You believe in taking medicine?" I believe in anything that helps the human race is godly. Certainly it is. Exactly it is. Tell me why we have the--what would we do today without these clinics and hospitals and so forth? Certainly. I know there's some shut behind the door when I first started off, but where'd it all go to? See, you've got to look at anything sensible. Anything... If--if medicine, hospitals are not of God, they're antichrist. Burn them down, get them out of the country. Sure. But it's something to help you. Certainly.
But they ain't a one of them can heal you. There ain't a medicine in the world, no doctor... If he is, he's a quack. He ain't a real doctor. If a doctor tells you they got medicine that'll heal you, he don't know what he's talking about. Mayo Brothers says there's not a medicine in the world will heal you. Said, "There's only one Healer; that's God. We only claim to assist nature."

L-45 As I've told you, if I cut my hand, fell dead right here, all the medicine in the--the country couldn't heal that knife cut. You say, "No, you're dead." Well, let them just embalm my body and look natural for fifty years again, and put a shot of penicillin in me every day, and everything else, and it'd never get any better. Put salve on it, and sew it up, and give me all... It wouldn't do it. If it's made to heal the body, why don't it heal it? There it lays.
You say, "The life has gone out." That's right. Now, what's life, and I'll tell you Who God is. It's exactly right. God is the Healer. A doctor can set a bone, but he can't heal it.
What if I was cranking my car, broke my arm, and run in, and said, "Hey doctor, heal my arm right quick so I can go out, finish cranking my car. Can't get the thing started."
He'd say, "You need mental healing." That's right. He might set it, but he can't heal it. That's right. He can take a tooth out, but he can't heal the socket it come out of. He can cut an appendix out of your side, but he can't heal the place he cut, 'cause there's no medicines that'll build cells, multiply cells. And before you can heal anything, it'd have to be a multiplication of cells. So God's the only Healer. You can't make God's Word wrong. Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord heals all thy diseases."

L-46 I've been interviewed at Mayo Brothers, and many places, and they say that. "We're not healers. We don't claim to be healers. We only assist nature. There's one Healer; that's God." So God is the Healer.
Someone said to me not long ago, said, "All right, Brother Branham, I'm going to ask you a question then." Said, "What about penicillin for flu?"
I said, "Well, my, my, I hope you ain't that weak." I said, "Look, what if you got a house full of rats, eating holes all through the roof and everything, and down everywhere there's a lot... You put out a lot of rat poison and poison the rats. It kills all the rats. That don't patch the holes. Penicillin only kills the germs, the flu germ. It doesn't build up the tissue it's tore down, just poisons the rats, that's all. God has to patch the holes. That's all. He's the Lord that heals all of our diseases. Yes, sir.


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