<TITLE>17. Par 126-131</TITLE>L-126   See, that's what Cain did; he reasoned. That's what Korah did; he reasoned. It's not him that reasons.
"We cast down reasonings." We believe God, no matter what anything else says. We believe God. We don't reason what God says. You can't reason with It. You have to accept It by faith. And anything that you know, you don't have to reason any more. I don't know how He does it; I just believe He does it. I don't know how He is going to keep that promise; but He said He would do it. I believe it. I accept it on the basis that I believe that it's the Word of God.
You say, "Well, you can't get by with that." I don't know how I'll get by with it, but He said, "Say it."
I remember my Baptist pastor told me, said, "Why, Billy, you will preach to the posts in the church. Why, you think anybody will hear a thing like that?"
I said, "God has said so."
"How are you going to, with a seventh-grade education, pray for kings, and preach around the world?"

L-127   I said, "I don't know how I'm going to do it, but, He said so, and that's just good enough for me." See? "He said so. I don't know how it's going to be done."
He said, "Do you think the people in this great, educated world that you're going to stand up against, on this subject of Divine healing and so forth, do you think they'll believe that?"

L-128 I said, "It ain't for me to know whether they believe It or not." I said, "My duty is to preach It. That's what He told me. He said He would be with me, and He's told me what it would do."
And it's done just exactly what He said it would do. "First, take a hold of their hands; then it'll come to pass that you'll even know the secret of their heart." And I told you about it, and it happened that way. How does it do it? I still don't know how it does it. It's none of my business how it's done; it's just done.

L-129   Who could explain when God told Elijah, "Go up there and set on the mount, and I'll feed you. I've ordained the--the crows to feed you"? How could a crow get a slice of bread and a piece--a piece of fish, baked, and bring it to a prophet? That's beyond anything I could explain. I don't think you can either, or nobody can. But He did it. That's all was necessary. He did it, and that's the truth of it.
How He did it, I don't know; it's none of my business. But He did it. How He made the earth, I don't know; but He did it. How He sent His Son, I don't know; but He did it. How He rose from the dead, I don't know; but He did it. How did He save me? I don't know; but He did it. That's right. How did He save you? I can't tell you; but He did it. How did He heal me? I don't know; but He did it. He promised He would do it, and He keeps His Word.
Now, Balaam should have knowed that, and he did know better.

L-130   Notice, this better, influential group, come, and what better? They had better gifts. And not only that, they could give him more money, and they could, offered him a better position. "Now, besides just a regular minister in the organization, we'll make you district superintendent. See? That, we'll--we'll do something for you if you'll just run that bunch of people out of there, see, and stop that." Oh, they offered him a great position. Said, "The more you bless..." Said, "You know, I'm able to promote you." Look where he's getting his words from, the head of the nation.

L-131   Where was Moses getting his Words from? The King of Heaven. One was the Word of God's promise, "I'll take you to the promised land, and no man will stand before you. I'll send hornets before you and drive them out, from right to left. And you're going to take the land. I've prom-... I've already give it to you. Go on, take it, possess it; it's yours." And now, see, that's Who Moses was listening to. And this man was listening until it come to something in his own heart he was jealous of, and so then he went to his ecclesiastical head. See?


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