<TITLE>13. Par -</TITLE>L-20-2 Now, if God said, "The--the day you eat thereof, that day you die."
Satan said, "Let me tell you something. (See?) Now, that--that's... Oh, yeah! We say God's true, sure; that's right. We believe that Word. Oh," Satan said, "I believe that real, sure. But listen; let me tell you; he didn't exactly mean that."
He did mean that. He meant just what He said.
Satan said, "Now, look, I tell you why he did it. He really... You see, you're--you're really not wise yet; you haven't got any wisdom. (See?) You're just like a sheep to be led. You're not your own." That's the way God wants you! "You're never--you ain't got no Ph.D. yet. You--you--you just don't have enough education. (See?) But I've got wisdom, and I'll prove it to you. Now, look, you don't know what's right and wrong. You know there is such a thing, but you don't know what it is. Let me show you how it's done." That's all he wanted to tell that woman. That's all he wanted to do. "Let me show you how it's done."
She said, "But we'll die."
He said, "Surely, God won't do that. But he knows that you'll be wise too." See? Putting his wisdom against God's Word. There's the wisdom that I'm talking about. See? Wisdom against faith--verses faith. There's the first battle, and God's Word held steady and true. When they partook of the forbidden they died, and have ever since. See? There's where... Proved right there beyond a shadow of doubt. Now, we're going to run it for a little while.

L-20-6 Now, I had Genesis 3:1-17, and now--or 1-7, rather, and now, now, where wisdom has reasonings. How many believes that now, say, "Amen!" [Congregation says, "Amen!"--Ed.] See?
You say now... The doctors say, "Well, I tell you..."
Now, let's take this little woman I just gave the testimony of. Doctor says nothing he can do. "You're done gone; there's no hopes for you. Go on to the insane institution; take her over there."
She said, "Before I'd go there in one of those cells, I'll kill myself."
And then what? God come on the scene. And through her--advertisement somewhere in the paper, way over in Kansas, from Bloomington, Illinois, she heard. "Faith cometh by hearing." See? Well, her husband got her together. (They was real sweethearts, loved one another.) Think. Four years and four major operations, fifteen, sixteen tranquilizers, that's enough to kill a mortal. See? And all those shots, two or three times a week with... I know one of them was Lextron, and I forget what the other one was. It was something for mental condition. She was taking these shots, and besides that, two sleeping tablets, and couldn't even sleep with that. Misery, sick all day, all night, year in and year out; nothing could be done. But faith cometh by hearing. See?

L-21-4 Now, when she got there, God placed her on the platform, first one. See? And in what--why what? When I walked up to her, and I said, "How do you do, sister." "How do you do." (She'd never heard nothing about this; she knowed nothing of it.) But said, "You are Mrs. So-and-so. You come from Kansas."
Now, quickly that gets her to--to thinking, "Wait a minute. I just heard him say that Christ was the same yesterday, today, and forever. And here we proved in the Bible tonight that Christ promised to appear in the last days in His church; and the things that they did down at Sodom, and so forth, as he preached on (which is my opening sermon for the... ) now, here I see it going on right here." See?


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