<TITLE>04. Par 12-13</TITLE>L-12 Now, you could see right there, it's unscriptural, and not right to begin with. Anybody with any--any knowledge of God... See? And said, "Then she takes, and pulls some hair out of the back of her neck, plucks some blood from their veins, and wraps this hair in it, walks down to a little creek behind the place, throws it over her head into the creek."
And said, "Then she starts walking towards the people. And if she's constrained to look back," said, "the people, the disease comes back on the people. If she doesn't," said, "then, why, the disease doesn't come back."
And said, "We have watched that." And said, "A certain percent of them get well." And said, "The very idea of you saying that Satan could not heal." Well, he went on with a whole lot.

L-13 And I thought, "Well, if he took enough time to write me twenty-two pages, I ought to write him at least two pages back as an answer. So I set down the best that I could. I can't even read my own writing, so... And I scribbled him off a little something. And I said, "Precious brother..." I had to call him that. Any man that had been preaching for fifty years ought to be regarded as brother, preaching the Gospel, no matter how it's been. And I--I--I regard him as my brother.
And I said, "I certainly appreciate and esteem highly your long years of ministry for our Lord." And I said, "I--I certainly am thankful to God to let you live at this good ripe age, and the things that you've done," and so forth. And there was another brother with them. So then... of this college.
Then first thing you know, I--I--I said, "But the... What strange thing is to me," I said, "that you criticize me so much upon saying that Satan could not heal." I said, "Now, you said Satan could heal. Jesus said if Satan can cast out Satan, then his kingdom's divided." I said, "Now, who am I going to believe? You, or what Christ said? Satan cannot heal. Christ said so. He's working against himself. He cannot heal."
But I said, and I... "To try to explain, if you'll forgive me," I said, "to a dean of a college, or a great man like you, that I would like to tell you; being a missionary, I've seen people come to idols and get healed. Alsace Lorraine, France, there's an idol of a woman. And down in Paris I seen where they had a--a woman, dead woman there, and they'd rubbed a whole stone off behind her to keep plagues off the city. I've seen all those things."
"And I've seen people in America, who call themselves divine healers, and say, 'I got healing here, and healing this way, and healing in this...'" I said, "It's the same thing. See? Healing is in Christ." Exactly.
But I said, "The people... I don't doubt but what those people got well. But here's what happens. The--Divine healing is based upon the--upon faith. And those people coming to that witch that you're talking about, of course they get it. They think they're approaching God through that witch, and upon the basis of their faith God heals them." See? They--they... Certainly. You... If you've got faith enough to believe it, it'll take place. That's exactly right.
But I said, "The strange thing to me, that a dean of a Lutheran college would base his faith upon an experience in the stead of the Word of God when Christ said that Satan could not heal. It's their approach, believing they're approaching God through the witch, and through the idol, and so forth. It's innocent people that's believing, that God heals."


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