<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 And he said, "Right not far from our college here there's a woman with a familiar spirit. She puts a big apron on, and the people comes in, and she puts her hand--her hands on them. And then she plucks their veins, and get a little hair from the back of her neck, and roll it up, get the blood on there, and walk down to a creek behind her, and throws it over her head like that into the creek. Starts walking out with her hands..."
And said, "The people standing up there, if she's constrained to look back, the disease is on the blood of the person... in her hair." And said, "Then, when they look back, the disease will come back to the person. But if not," said, "the person's to get well." And said, "About twenty percent of those get well. And then you say the devil can't heal."

L-16 Oh, he--he had a good mental approach. But, brother, that's not what we approach--not mental; we approach the Scripture. So I just thought, "Well, twenty-two page letter; didn't even address me as brother; just said, 'Branham.'" So I thought, "Well..."
He said, "And you talking about your years," said, "I was preaching the Gospel before you was born."
Well, I thought, "A man that's preached the Gospel that long should have respects, no matter what he is." See? We should respect him. So I set down and addressed him--my little scratching, the best I could--two pages back, to recognize him. And I--I said, "Brother dear, I sure appreciate the many years that you have spent and all this." I said, "I--I appreciate it, a servant of Christ. And I do appreciate the criticism." Now, a man that can't take criticism, there's something wrong with his experience (You see?), 'cause God sends criticism to us to correct us, to make us see our--our bad points. I've been helped so much by criticism, that's friendly criticism, just not get nasty, and angry, but just--just friendly criticism. So I said, "I appreciate it, sir."

L-17 And then I said, "There's just one thing I would like to express here, as you was speaking of my grammar, of course I'm not--have no education. That's true." But I said, "The thing what surprises me, that a dean of a Lutheran college would base his theology upon an experience, in the stead of the Word of God, when you talked about the witch that could heal."
I said, "Jesus said, 'If Satan can cast out Satan, then his kingdom's divided.' He cannot heal. Now, you can... See, if he can... Jesus said he couldn't heal, and you said he could heal. I'm going to believe Jesus (See, that's right.), because He said let every man's word be wrong and His right. And I said, "I believe Jesus. And surprising to me, that a dean of a Lutheran college would base his theology upon the--an experience, or an emotion, instead of the Word of God." I said, "A dean, or anyone else, any minister should base his theology upon the Word of the Lord."
And I said, "I'm certainly... And what you call to be a soothsayer," I said, "I presume it was the discernment." And I said, "Did you know that the Pharisees and Sadducees once made that remark themselves, when they seen the same thing done by our Lord, called Him Beelzebub?" I said, "Now, perhaps what if I am right? Now, Jesus said when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same, that to speak a word against it would never be forgiven in this world, or the world to come, no matter about your fifty years of being preaching. A word against the Holy Spirit," I said, "I forgive you for that, and I know that God will, for He seen that you didn't understand it." And I wrote him the nicest letter that I could. Later I got a letter inviting me to come up.


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