<TITLE>08. Par 73-82</TITLE>L-73 Now let's just take the armor of Christianity and see if it's supernatural: love, joy, peace, faith, long-suffering, meekness, gentleness, patience. Everything is supernatural. Love! "Go down to the drugstore and buy me a quarter's worth of love. I need it." See? You couldn't do it. "Buy me a dollar's worth of peace." You couldn't do it. See? Everything is supernatural. The whole armor of God is supernatural. His Church is supernatural. It's not an organization. It's a supernatural Body that men and women are born into by the Holy Spirit and Its simple way.

L-74   God doesn't make things complicated, of so many rosaries, and so many this, and join this, and so much education, so much theology. Why, we get ourself farther and farther away from God, all the time, by doing so.

L-75 Today, we're so scientific till we can tell how many molecules it takes to make an atom, how many electrons, and so forth; and split that atom, and tell you how it's done; make an atomic bomb, and then we can explain how we done it; but walk over a blade of grass that we cannot explain.

L-76 God, in simplicity. God manifested Himself in simplicity. He makes Hisself simple. It's so that the wise will not understand. Jesus said, "I thank Thee, Father, Thou has hid This from the wise and prudent, and will reveal It to babes such as will learn."

L-77 Don't never try to educate yourself to God. When you do, you educate yourself away from God. See? God is not known by education. God, is knowing by faith. And the first stroke that the Devil took was on the educational program, and man lost his fellowship with God. That's exactly. He must know God by faith, not what he can explain; by what he believes, that he can't explain. That, we just vice versa the picture.

L-78   Now, today, everything is an educational program. Yes. We walk over a simple, little blade of grass. We send our children to Bible schools and to colleges. Now, remember, I'm not condemning that. I'm not supporting ignorance. But I'm trying to tell you the folly of it. And there's where we make... You know there's something wrong.

L-79 And it's like in my meetings. Most time, when I get meetings, I find those that fails over in the other fellow's meeting. Because, many times...

L-80 I've watched Brother Roberts. Someone said, "Brother Roberts, Brother Branham, will pray for five hundred while you pray for three." That's right. Certainly. "He'll get twice the testimonies." Certainly. "Fifty times the testimonies." See? Because you'll... After all, it's based upon the faith of the individuals being prayed for. But, the ones that fails in there, then they come over to the meeting. Because...

L-81   Here, a doctor is setting present. If a doctor... You go to a doctor's office, say, "I'm sick at my stomach, and got a headache, and so forth." And that doctor just writes you out a little prescription of--of aspirin or a tranquilizer, something, he's never diagnosed that case. He's just trying to get you out of the office. See? Now, if he's got you upon his heart, and he's interested, he'll diagnose that case until he finds the cause.

L-82   And when a man is sick, or a woman, and something has happened, there's only one way to correctly get that, that's, go back and find the cause. Go back till we see what they done. In the meetings, watch them stand on the platform. The Holy Spirit say, "Ten years ago, you was at a certain place, and you done a certain thing. And you did this, and certain." You've heard it, many of you, in the meetings. See? "You did that. You've got to make that right, first." And then, if they promise to do it, then you'll hear come forth, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." Mark it in your books. Did you ever see it fail? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] Certainly not. It doesn't. It can't. What is it? See? You, the first thing, you've got to find the cause before you can produce the cure. You've got to find the reason for it.


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