<TITLE>17. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 But God's going to ask us, "Why?" He asked the king, "Why?" Now, it wasn't because they didn't have a prophet that he could consult. No, no. No, sir. He could have went and consulted the prophet of God. It wasn't because there was no God in Israel, sure. The God of Israel would have told the prophet about the king. But it was the king's own stubborn way.
And that's what's the matter with the nations today in the world. It's not because we haven't got a God, but science is trying to rule Him out of the picture, and the people are too stubborn to stand up on the principles of God's Word. It's exactly right.

L-66 They say, "Oh, that's a bunch of holy-rollers." Let it be whatever it may be. I've been... I've traveled the world over several times; I have never seen a holy-roller yet, and I've looked. There's nine hundred and sixty-nine different organizations and churches recorded in Washington, and there's not a one of them called holy-rollers. That's a dirty name that the devil put on the church. There's no such a thing as holy-roller. No such an organization's called holy-rollers. They call anybody that believes in holiness holy-rollers. And if... "Without holiness, no man shall see God." So you see where the essence of it comes from. Yes.

L-67 All right, the king, he--he was just stubborn. He didn't want to listen to the prophet. They had a prophet. They had God, but they--the king was too stubborn. That's the way it is today; people are too selfish. They talk about Divine healing. They'd rather lay out there and die, than even to admit they believed in Divine healing. People would rather...
It's just like a man dying on a doctor's doorsteps because he won't take his medicine. The doctor's got the toxin for the disease he's got. And the man will set on the door step, and the doctor's got plenty of toxin, but he won't take it, just too stubborn to go in and take it. He will die. And he ought to. So then... If you feel that way about it. It's not because the doctor... Don't lay it onto the doctor. If the doctor's got the toxin and willing to give it, and the patient's setting on the doorstep just too stubborn to come and to take it, don't lay it onto the doctor. It's not the doctor's fault, neither is it the toxin. It's the patient's fault that won't take it.

L-68 The same thing it is in the church. We've got plenty of balm in Gilead, and we got physicians here. But people die in the pews in sin without the Holy Ghost, because they're too stubborn to come take it; and they're afraid it'll hurt their social prestige; it'll break them down, might cost a little of their card parties and things, afraid they might cut up and little and act unruly. No, don't blame the doctor; don't blame the remedy; just blame the patient for not taking the remedy. That's where it's at. We got toxin; we got plenty.
The world is full of the Holy Ghost; it's just everywhere. We got physicians, brother, that knows how to give the medicine, but the--the people won't take it. "Oh," they say, "I'm Presbyterian." That don't mean no more than a hog would be able to wear a side saddle in a stable of a race horse. That don't have nothing to do with it, has nothing to do with it. Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostal organization, or anything else don't mean that to God. [Brother Branham snaps his fingers once for illustration--Ed.] You must be borned again. Dying in the church pews, not because there's no toxin, plenty of toxin, but it's because they refuse to take it.
Now, you know what? If you refuse to take the doctor's medicine, it's dangerous. You might die if you don't take the doctor's toxin. You might die, and that's dangerous to not take it. Like the Salk vaccine, like the smallpox...


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