<TITLE>13. Par 49-53</TITLE>L-49 If I forced my wife to love me, I'd be afraid to marry her. But she come upon--accepted me for what I was and married me. That's right. And she loved me and she accepted me that way. And that's the way we got to come to God. He wants us to love Him, and come, and believe His Word. And God's Word teaches Divine healing. How many believes that? Let's see your hands. That's fine. That's fine. The Word teaches it; that settles it. How many believes in gifts and callings? Let's see your... That's fine.
Now, gifts and callings does not heal you. Gifts and callings stimulates faith to... Faith is what heals you.

L-50 Now, the person at the platform, if they do not have faith, they'll be told immediately they do not have faith. And then, maybe here now here it illustrates: Here's Mr. Jones comes up, and he walks up here. He says, "Good evening, brother."
"You have faith, Brother Jones?"
"Yes, I have faith," and here he is down here.
Here's a... I will use it, my own expressions, vibration running up here. And Brother Jones is down here. All right. He says, "I got faith." He'd--he'll never be healed down here. He would in a--in amount of time, 'cause just the least little speck of faith, if you'll hold on to it, it'll bring you out.

L-51 But I mean for a spontaneous healing like you expect on the platform, when you make a statement that everything's healed on the platform. There's critics, hundreds setting watching, the newspapers and everything else to criticize that. So... Now, I'm not responsible after they get off of here and get away from the gift. I'm not responsible.
But any power that'll open blinded eyes on the platform till they can read a Bible, they can read it all the time if they keep believing. It's faith. When you lose faith... You get out with a bunch of unbelievers, and they say, "There's nothing in it," and Satan begins to lie to you, then you'll fall right back down in the category where you was the first place. It's... You're...

L-52 Somebody says, "How does Divine healing... Is it... Does it last all the time?" It lasts just as long as faith lasts. And salvation lasts the same way, just as long as faith lasts. When you feel that you're not saved any more, you're not saved. For it's by faith are you saved through grace. Is that right?
When you come to the altar, what do you do? You confess your sins and ask God to forgive you. And then, in your heart... Now get it! In your heart, you have to believe that He has forgiven you. Is that right? You have to believe that.
Then you walk away from the platform. And then you have to confess it first, that you are saved. You can't just keep it under a bushel; you'll lose it right now. You've got to confess it and tell everyone that you're glad. Now, what if you walk outside and somebody says, "There's nothing to it; you just got excited at the altar."

L-53 How many Christians is in here? Let's see your hands. All right. Oh, my. A hundred percent I believe. All right.
Each one of you, God saved in the same way, by faith. You could come here, and cry, and pray, and pray, and cry all this week, and next week, and a month, and you'd still be a sinner until you accept Him by faith. Is that right? It's not your crying that saves you. It's your faith that saves you. All right.
Then when you accept it, you believe it and somebody say, "Let's see if you look any different. Why, you still got brown eyes, you--you're just the same as you was." You can't show nothing that you are saved, only you're testifying of the unseen. Your faith says you're saved. Then you...?... what you do. You believe you're saved; then you say you're saved; then you act like you're saved; then you associate with those that are saved; and it works righteousness. Isn't that right? And after while everybody knows that you're saved. Isn't that right?


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