<TITLE>25. Par -</TITLE>L-40-4 Wisdom has Vitamin P, Vitamin R ("pleasure" and vitamin "reason"), vitamin... all these other vitamins; ha--fai--a--rea--a--knowledge has all that. See? Wisdom has all that, reasons them out. But faith only has one thing--Life! That's all that will stay. Thy Word is Life. Thy Word is Truth. He is the Word, the Way, the Truth, the Life. Faith only hangs right there; that's all. It won't take it,
Holy Spirit Life, Eternal Life, that's where faith grows in. Word Zoe, God's own Life. That's the only place that faith can work, is when faith hears the Word and believes that It's God's Word. Then in that Zoe it grows and produces what the Word said.

L-40-6 God... How did He make the world? Do you believe the world was in God's thoughts? Sure it was; had to be. "How did He make it?" He just said... "Where's He going to get the things?" How could you ever reason with God? Say, "God, where'd You get the materials to make rocks out of? Where'd You..."
"They come from gases."
"Where'd You get the gas, Lord?" See? "How did You ever make water? What is the formula?...
"H2O."
"Where'd you get the hydrogen and oxygen at?"
See? That's it. See? It just doesn't make sense. What did God say? It was in His thoughts. And His thoughts is His Word, before It's expressed. Then when His thoughts said, "Let there be," and there was. That's it. There's where faith lays.

L-41-2 By... the Hebrews 11 said, "By faith the world was created." The world was made by faith. God made the world out of things that does not appear. By faith God spoke the world into existence, because it was a, it was a premeditated word. But as soon as He said it, it become life.
Now, you can say, "I believe that, Brother Branham." In your heart you can believe it, then express it, "I believe it," and don't never change it at all. Stay right with it. Watch what will grow out of it. It will produce the Word, 'cause it's faith. See? Wisdom takes you away; faith brings you to It.

L-41-4 See that? That cuts out every man-made creed, cuts out every school of learning of man-made theology; it just knocks them cold. There they are, the professor, D.D., Ph.D., L.L., Q.U.D., and all these fellows has to go to school and learn psychology and all these other things. There's only one thing he leaves out. How to present himself with psychology, and what kind of clothes to wear, and how he must say, "Amen," just so, and, oh, nonsense! Let...?... be led by the Holy Spirit. Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God, not the wisdom of the seminary, but the Spirit of God leads the sons and daughters of God. Certainly it's true. Amen!

L-41-5 Now, lets out every creed, every school of learning, every man-made theology. No wonder they can't believe. There's nothing in there for it to grow on. See? They got Vitamin R, "reasoning," that we're supposed to cast away. Vitamin "popularity," Vitamin "pleasure"--just got to have a little fun.
"What kind of fun?"
"Oh, get out and get on a little drunk once in a while, you know, just have a little fun. It won't make any difference." You know, little things like that, it's just all that--all that vitamin. You see? And how is that kind of a vitamin ever going to grow a Word that denies that vitamin? How you going to do it? See? The Word denies that. "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you," said the Bible. See? So how's the--how's God's--how's God's Word going to grow under vitamins like that?


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