<TITLE>09. Par 79-83</TITLE>L-79 The Christian doesn't ask for easy things. We are not... There's so much promises today made amongst Christian people; so many ministers promise the people a false thing, "If you'll just come to Christ, all your troubles is settled." I tell you; when you come to Christ they then begin. That's when you put on a uniform, and take a gun, and enter the battlefield. This Christian road is not a flower bed of ease. It is a battle from the very hour you start until you're spirit's set free by death. You are not at no picnic. You're on a battlegrounds. And so we are promised things.

L-80 And I become sometimes... I hate to say this, but I mean it from my heart, that I become perplexed when I hear so much super-duper faith, super-duper religion. And everything today has become a--a super-duper something. It--it's the super-duper man. And the television has opened the way through spacemans, and so forth, and a bunch of nonsense, super-duper. Oh. And they bring out even into Divine healing today; super-duper healings. Now, God doesn't have no such things as that. They bring people, many times, to the platform, and gifted men, no doubt, but with a misunderstanding of the Gospel, put oil upon them, and pray, and stand there, and shake them until something happens; they get healed. And maybe that person living in sin, and they go back out and find it comes right back on them again. Maybe they was under an excitement at that time. Which the faith of God that they accumulated did heal them. But when they get off amongst unbelievers, it comes back again, it will do that again.

L-81 What we need today is Divine healing, is clean-cut decisions for Christ. That's right.
I was reading a letter just recently that was sent me from the Lutheran Association in Germany, where a--a brother had been staying and having a healing service in Germany, with the sponsorship of the Lutheran church, and Pentecostals, and so forth. And this copy of this letter was wrote: "And he said, 'You preach that Divine healing. And all they have to do is you lay your hands on them, and they feel something and get healed.' He said, 'I certainly different with you.' He said, 'Then what about little Deborah Stadsklev when she died up there? A perfect, healthy child one day, and the next few hours she was laying dead. And you all went up there, and you prayed, and you shook her, and you anointed her, and everything, for healing, and there was no life. The baby laid there.' Said, 'Then they telegrammed Brother Branham, and he never said a thing until he got a good clean-cut decision from God, and then come in the Name of the Lord Jesus to say the--the Word.'"

L-83 Now, that's what we need: get a clean-cut decision from God. That's why we've got to come. That's why we baptize in the Name of Jesus Christ; it's a clean-cut decision from the Word of God. That's the reason we stay with the things we do, because they are God's orders and God's Gospel. And we've got to stay with It just the way It's wrote. Whether agreed, whether you're hated, whether no matter what takes place, that doesn't have one thing to do with it. God wants clean-cut decisions. And how can you do it when you know you're wrong to begin with? You cannot have a clean-cut decision from God. How can you come and ask for Divine healing when you know that your heart's not right with God to serve Him? See, you want to go back out and do the things that's in the world. You'll never get healed like that. See? You must come clean before God and dedicate your life and heart to God, and then God will heal. And it's lasting then, 'cause your faith has been anchored.


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