<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-16-1 It can't be artificial; it's got to be real. And there's only--only, one avenue that that can come down, and that's by the way of free moral agency, come into the soul by your thoughts. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. If you say to this mountain, 'Move' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to pass; you can have what you said." You get it? There you are. See? There's the battleground.

L-16-2 If you'd only get that started first. We're so anxious to see things done; we're so anxious to do something for God. This little lady's no anxious--no doubt anxious to live; she wants to be well. Others are here, wants to be well. And when we hear about that case, like the doctor, the resurrection of the dead, the great mighty things that our God has did, then we're anxious. And the thing of it is, we try to reach through these senses to grab a hold of something here, like conscience.

L-16-3 So many people lots of times has misconstrued the Word, and I've been misunderstood by this, by making altar calls. I said, "I wasn't much on an altar call," not meaning that you shouldn't make an altar call, but somebody get somebody by arm say, "Oh, Brother John, you know what? Me and you been neighbors all this time; come up here to the altar; get down."
What's he doing? Wish I had a blackboard here, I could show you what he's doing. He's trying to work through his soul on affections. That don't work. That's not the avenue. Certainly it isn't. Maybe he's working in what? A memory, through the sense of his soul. "Oh, Brother John, you had a wonderful mother; she died a long time ago": a memory. See? You can't do that, it's got to come down the line of free moral agency. You, yourself, let the Word of God... You don't come because your mother was a good woman; you don't come because you're a good neighbor; you come because that God calls you to come, and you accept Him on the basis of His Word. That Word's what means everything.
That Word, if you can get everything out of the way, all conscience, all senses, and just let the Word come in, that Word will produce just exactly.

L-16-6 Here, see what it's covered over with? You say, "Well now, uh..." You say, "Well, these conscience, and senses, and so forth don't have anything to do with it, Brother Branham?" Certainly it does. But if you let the Word come in and cover it over with conscience, then it can't grow; it'll be a deformed word. Did you ever see a good grain of corn planted in the ground and let a stick fall over it, it'll grow crooked. Anybody, anything that grows up will, because something has hindered it.

L-17-1 Well, that's what's the matter with our Pentecostal faith today. We've let too many things hinder it, the faith that we've been taught, the Holy Spirit that's been living in us. We've let too many things: looking at somebody else. And the devil's always trying to point you to somebody's failure, but he tries to keep you away from the real testimony that's genuine. He will point you to a hypocrite sometime, who went out impersonating something. He didn't do it, because he was impersonating. But if it come from the true source of the Word of God, "Heavens and earth will pass away but My Word cannot pass away." It's got to stay. You see it, sis?


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