<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 I couldn't help because that I was born with--with blue eyes, or small in figure, but it's the way that God brought me here. If I had wanted to be... I tell you; I want to be a great big man. But God didn't intend for me be a--a large man. He knew me just the way I am, so I could... I'm satisfied with the way God made me, and I move the best that I know how to glorify Him with this body while I'm here on earth. If He had made me a large man, I'd been a large man and...?... And when He sends something for us to do, well, let us do it with all of our heart, giving Him glory for whatever He done for you.
The gift itself doesn't do anything. There's no way for anybody to ever have anything from God except by faith. God has made that His way; that was from the beginning for people to believe God by faith. That was given to Adam and Eve to believe God's Word. And when Eve disbelieved God's Word, then it brought death, and sorrow, and sickness to disbelieve God.

L-6 Jesus said, "I can, if you believe." Now, in order to believe God, most people have to have something to look at, some visible, something to look at to represent God. I believe one of the hardest things that God has ever had to do, was to get one mortal to believe another mortal. We won't believe one another. And we are God's agency. We know that.
Now, when God made His first statue of healing, it was piece of brass on a pole out in the wilderness. Is that true? In the wilderness... Now, there was no virtue in the brass or in a pole, but it was a ordinance of God. Again He... No one knew just how it worked; it was just look by faith. It represented something; it was a foreshadow of Jesus Christ Who would come to the earth to be our sin and sickness Bearer.

L-7 Later on after the days of the serpent, God sent a Angel down from heaven and troubled the water on a pool called Bethesda, and ever who stepped in that water first, having faith, was healed of whatsoever disease they had. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Into the waters...
Now, the brass serpent done no healing. It was their faith in what God had done by the brass serpent. Is that right? The water done no healing. It was the Angel of God on the water that done the healing. The water couldn't say, "See, I'm healing water." No, it was the Angel doing the healing. When the Angel left, the water was water.

L-8 And a man is just a man until he's fully submitted to God, and then Deity dwells in that man, the Holy Spirit. Not the man, but God in the man does the work. So Jesus then, when He came, He was a Man born of a virgin birth. His mother was Mary; His Father was Jehovah God. You believe that? And then in that body God dwelled. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; It's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the work." And that was God speaking through mortal lips, that could raise the dead, still the waters, and so forth.
Then when He ascended on high, He gave gifts to men. One man received a great gift of healing, so the people that laid in his shadow and were healed. Not the man, but their faith in God that was in the man. Do you understand?

L-9 Another one, they taken handkerchiefs from his body and aprons, and laid upon the sick people, and evil spirits went out of people. Not because it was Saint Paul; he was a man who lived in flesh like you and I. And he died. He had to be redeemed by the Blood of Christ just like we do.
It wasn't the man that done the healing; it was the Spirit of God in the man that done the healing, through the faith of the people. Is that right? Well, the same Holy Spirit is with us today. Jesus said, "I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world."


<A HREF="P3">Next Page</A>