<TITLE>12. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 They said that the Bible is untrue. They was go dig down and find the, what they called the garden of Eden, proving there's just a beginning of a civilization somewhere. And when they dug down, trying to disprove the Bible, they dug up the... on a rock, where it had been written where Isaiah healed Hezekiah with boils. Just to prove that...
And they said that the walls of Jericho did not fall down; there was no such a thing. They dug all around there and there was no such a thing as walls. And some certain doctor went down there and dug down, on down, on down, and found out, there they was, twenty or thirty feet below where they--they'd been digging, and there they was, lapped on top one another, just exactly the way the Bible said. So God was right after all. Mmm...
They said that your great, great, great grandfather, if he was a critic, he said, "They cannot be a carriage ever go without a horse hitched to it, but we got it anyhow. That's right. And all these things that God spoke of, they're eternal truth.

L-50 Here some time ago, it was questioned about Solomon in the Bible, when he said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
Well then, the scientist said, "Looky here. There's no mental faculties in a human heart. Solomon meant his head." Huh. If he'd a meant "head," he'd said, "head." That's it.
I--I believe the Bible to be just exactly the way it's wrote. Just... I believe that's God's Word. Just... I believe it is God. God is no better than His Word. You're no better than your word. Your own word's what's going to stand there to judge at that day.

L-51 Now, in Chicago about four years ago... Brother Mattsson-Boze's little girl, Joyce, is to be married next month. Lovely little girl. She's always telling me something and laughing. Just always having a little joke to tell me, saying about something that's a little crack she has to make about something. And she said to me, she said, "Did you hear what was in the paper today?"
And I said, I said, "Now, I'll wait a minute, Joyce. Now, what--what you going to tell me now? What can..."
Said, "No this is not, Brother Branham." Said, "I'll bring it to you and show you." Said, "I heard you say about man thinking in his heart." I read it in the Bible. She said, "Now, today they have found it and proved it. It's not in the hu... It's not in no other heart but the human heart. It isn't in a animal heart. But there's a little compartment in the heart that science says is the place where the soul abides." So therefore God was right when He said, "As a man thinketh in his heart... See? There is a mental faculty in the heart.

L-52 Now, when you say, "Well now... I--I..." Did you ever... All of you has had this: times that when you would think, "Well, I--I don't know whether it could happen or not." And all at once something just tells you, it's going to happen; regardless of what anybody else says, you know it's going to happen. We've all had them experiences. That's when your heart's thinking. That's your heart telling you...
Now, the mind reasons but the heart doesn't reason. It just believes it. If I could ever drive that home to one of my audience, I'd have a real healing service. If I could ever get my audience to see that, that it's not what your head thinks at all. There's where the devil abides, but he reasons it out. "I--I'm sick. I can't get well. I--I got this... or I can't be saved. I--I--I've done too much." See, that's reason. But we are to cast down reasonings. That's right. Casting down our reasonings, we believe with our heart.


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