<TITLE>03. Par 12-23</TITLE>L-12   Said, "Yes, that's right." Said, "When I was at my very worse," said, "there was a fine lady come up here to me. And she said, 'Sister, we were down there in prayer meeting, and we understood that you were very sick, and you had a boy away in--in the seminary school, and to be a minister. And while we were praying, the Lord revealed to us that we should come pray for you.' And said, 'Well,'" she said, "'that, that'll be fine.' Said, 'Do you mind if our pastor comes and prays?' Said, 'Why, certainly not, lady. I'll be glad,' said. So they brought the... The doctor said that we would be fine. So the pastor come up, and he read this Scripture here in Mark, 16th chapter. And he said, 'This is what the Bible said.'" So he laid his hands upon the woman and prayed, went out. And said, she "got well," she said.
"Oh," he said, "Mother!"
She said, "Isn't that wonderful, son? Think of that!"

L-13   "Oh," he said, "Mother, of course that had nothing to do with your getting well." Says, "Perhaps some of the medicine that the physician had give you before, it just didn't take effect at time."

L-14 And said, "Oh!" She said, "No, son. The physician had quit giving me medicine two days, said there was nothing he could do. He just put me under oxygen and said there was nothing he could do. And I was constantly getting worse."

L-15 "Oh," he said, "Mother, it--it wasn't that." Said, "You see, those are illiterate people." Said, "They really don't understand. They just read the Bible." And said, "You see?"
She said, "Well, aren't we supposed to believe the Bible, son?"

L-16 "Oh, sure." Said, "Mother, we're supposed to believe It, but," said, "you know, in the school," said, "we learned that That where he read there from Mark 16, from the 9th verse on, It's not even inspired."
"Well," she said, "glory to God!"

L-17 He said, "Mother, you're acting like them people." And said, "Why, the very idea!"
She said, "Well, honey, I was just thinking."
Said, "What you thinking?"

L-18 Said, "If God could heal me with that part of the Word that's not inspired, what would He do with that really is inspired?" So, That, That's... [Congregation applauds--Ed.] So we believe It is inspired.

L-19   So, now this, we're going to let the prosecutor call his witnesses, the first one to the stand, to witness against.

L-20 I just said that a few minutes ago, because I was just reading, when I was reading this text, Mr. Scofield says that some of the manuscripts don't pack That. That's probably where that story come from. But It is so.

L-21 So Mr. Unbelief comes to the stand, and takes his stand now to testify against the Word of God, to witness against It. And now when he... He is to be the first witness to stand by. Now we find out that after he's sworn in, now his complaint is this, that "the Word of God's promises are not altogether true."

L-22 Now, all these witnesses that the prosecutor's bringing up, claims to be believers. They all claim to be believers, or, they give an evidence of this, "We would have never attended such meetings if we wasn't believers." So they--they say that they are believers.

L-23   And the complaint that Mr. Unbeliever gives against the Word of God, he claims that "Mark 16 isn't true, It just can't be true." For he said that he had been sick for some time, and he's giving his testimony now that he was sick for some time, and he "went to a so-called Holy Ghost meeting where people were laying hands upon the sick, and they claimed that they were being healed." So he went into this prayer line, and when he did... He had been very sick for some time, and he "was prayed for by this Holy Ghost (so-called Holy Ghost) bunch of people that were shouting and making noises, and claiming that they were healed." And Mr. Unbeliever walked through this line, had hands laid upon him, "And that was over two months ago, and there hasn't been one sign of recovery." So he says that "The Word of God, that part, is not true."


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