<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 So that's right. So the judge dismissed the case. There could be no more about it. That's exactly. See, he was... As long as he was walking he was all right; but when he begin to doubt, down he went.
And that's just how long divine healing lasts: as long as you believe it. And that's how long salvation lasts: just as long as you believe it.
Someone said to me some time ago, said, "Brother Branham, I don't care what you would produce, what you would say, or anyone else, that... You might raise up ten dead people, and make every cripple walk," said "I still would not believe it."
I said, "Certainly not. It wasn't for unbelievers; it was just for those who believe." That's all. It's just for believers.
Jesus said, "To those that believe." Unbelievers are not even included, see. You're just to be pitied. Something wrong somewhere. So if you're a believer, why, it's for you. If you're not a believer, then it's not for you.

L-6 And someone said, "Would you...?" Was out on the street one day, said, "Would you tell this man standing on the corner what's wrong with him?"
I said, "You know, God takes His man but never His Spirit." His Spirit upon Elijah come upon Elisha, then of John. The One that was upon Jesus came on the church, and on down through the age. Satan does the same thing. He takes his man but never his spirit. I said, "I'm just about minded when they put a rag around Jesus' eyes there in the court that morning, and hit Him on the head with a reed, and said, 'Prophesy and tell us who hit you and we'll believe you.' He never opened His mouth and said a word, because He didn't clown for people; He only obeyed God." See?

L-7 Satan said to Him "If you be the Son of God, why, perform a miracle here before me. Let me see it." You've heard that said. See? Just remember, that's the devil. See? That's him. See? He said, "If you be the Son of God," said, "just, just perform a miracle and turn this bread... this, this rock into bread and I'll believe you."
He said it's written, "Man shall not live by bread alone."
And then at the cross Satan and those priests said, "If you're the Son of God, come down off the cross. Then we'll believe you."
He could have done it, but He'd have been obeying Satan. See? He don't do what Satan says; He does what God says. And any servant of God does the same--just obedient. So when you hear those remarks, just remember where it comes from.
Don't, don't despise the people, but feel sorry for them that they're in total darkness and blindness, maybe ordained to that condemnation. Then what? That's bad, isn't it? So we just feel sorry and just move on, be humble, and be Christians.

L-8 Now, tonight I want to speak to you upon a little subject that perhaps maybe... just to kind of, till we get our audience kind of balanced, and begin to let all the superstitions rub out, and...
Last evening I thought for a first time it was pretty good to see as many as responded to the Holy Spirit. 'Course I could have counted at least twelve right in here that thought it was a hoax or something like that, but you're going to have that anyhow, you know. So you just don't let that interfere with the ones who do believe. They're disbelievers, unbelievers, and in a bad shape. So just pray for them.
But now tonight, I want to approach the subject of Conferences.
Now, I want to read a Scripture found in Isaiah 1:18:
 Come now... let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be... white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be white like wool.
That's a very familiar old gospel text. Perhaps your pastors has approached it many times. And I think it's one of the most outstanding texts, or sympathetic, of the Old Testament... God trying to hold a conference with the people to reason things out. Jehovah God, Who made heavens and earth and all the creatures that's on it, and yet would ask to have a conference with the people to, "let's reason it out, to see what it would be."


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