<TITLE>13. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 And I thank God for every serum that they got, for the Salk vaccine. Pray constantly that God will give us something for cancer, for poor suffering people. Anything can do to help, I'm for it. Yes, sir, I'm a hundred percent for it. And if we Christian people would pray more for such things as that, we'd be better off. The whole country would. Yes, great men, they give their lives just trying to fight back at those things that cripple children and everything. Certainly.
I certainly thank God for everything He's done for us. I thank God for an automobile. I thank God for soap to wash my hands with. And all the mechanics, all those things, I thank God for them. Certainly. There's one time we didn't have soap, you know. There's one time we didn't have an automobile. If I wanted to walk over to Phoenix I could take off, but I thank God for an automobile. I get in and trust Him, right down the road as hard as I can go. See? So we thank the Lord for those things. All things that's good to help us comes from God. Certainly.

L-48 But now, what if the patient's setting out there on the doctor's steps and just refuses to take his medicine? And if the patient dies, it ain't the medicine's fault. "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why is the health of My daughter, My people, not recovered?" Is there something wrong?
It's the same thing in the church. Men and women set in the church and die in their sins, because they refuse God's Balm. That's right. It's not because there's no Balm here. The Holy Spirit's here. We got plenty of doctors, physicians. So the people die in their sins, don't lay it onto God. There's a balm in Gilead, and there's physicians there, but it's the people's attitude towards it.

L-49 Now, if you--you take like medicine. It's a horrible thing if you would refuse medicine. How much more horrible is it if you refuse God's balm for your soul, refuse that toxin, then what's going to take place? You're lost forever if you refuse that. Oh, you--your body you might patch around.
And then another thing, you can take medicine. What's good for one, will help one, will kill another. Penicillin almost kills a third of what it helps. It will kill some and help the others. It's a very dangerous thing. And what will help one, will help the other one. But you don't have to worry about God's toxin. It helps "Whosoever will, let him come." Yes, sir. It's for all. You don't have to worry about it: no danger of fooling with it.
You go fooling with it, and you say, "Well, I tell you, Brother Branham, I don't believe it's for me." Like people say today: "I just can't keep from smoking." "I just can't keep from running out."

L-50 A man told me not long ago, he said, "I got a good wife, but, Brother Branham, I just wasn't made for one woman." Said "I--I got to run with other women."
I said, "You know what's the matter with you? You just refuse the remedy." That's all.
That's what's the matter with the people today. We can drink, smoke, lie, steal, and fuss, and carry on; you refuse God's balm of love that draws us together and makes us one. It's not because there's not enough power of God here to send a revival through the city. We just refuse to use it; that's all. Amen. It's--it's--it's here. But if you die in your sins, your unbelief, it's not God's fault. It's not the Holy Ghost's fault, not the church's fault, just because people refuse it.


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