<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Now, we know drinking and carrying on is sin; but the whole thing is because of unbelief. 'Cause if you believe God, and Jesus Christ to be His Son, you are absolutely not going to do those things. You believe that? "He that's born of God does not commit sin." See? All right.
You must believe. The whole thing lays in faith. Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, shall not come into condemnation, but's already passed from death into Life." Do you believe that's the truth? There it lays. There isn't nothing else that you can do, only believe. And if you believe, then them little immoral things will just drop off, like that. As you believe, you become love. And love is God. And you begin to wind yourself into Christ. And these other things, you don't have to quit doing them; they just quit themselves. There's just no desire to do it. "The worshipper having purged, has no more conscience, or desire of sin." Hebrews 9. See? "The worshipper once purged..." See what I mean? When the worshipper is purged, is when he is born again, when his old nature dies, and a new nature sets in. Then he becomes a part of God, a son of God. He gets new Life, and the Life is... And the Greek word there is "Zoe," which means "the Life of God." And you become an offspring of God. And God can't hurt you without hurting Himself. See what I mean?

L-29 And if you talk about one another, and belittle some other Christian, or something like that, remember, you're hurting God. Well, you can talk about me as much as you want to, but leave my children alone. Is that right? I'd rather you just take me out and whip me, and beat me, and everything, but don't hurt my boy back here. No, no, he's--he's part of me. Well, that's the way God feels about us. You see? And the only way, God can induce His children to love Him and believe Him, and that's--that's the avenue. Just have faith in Him, and believe Him, and God will bring it to pass. Oh, my. It's just as simple, just like one, two, three.
Let's read some of the Scripture now, and go straight to praying for the sick.

L-30 I want to read a portion out of Acts 2, tonight. And then a--a portion, also, I was reading this afternoon out of Saint John 16:30, beginning, and Acts 2:22. Jesus had just been crucified. Now, listen to the testimony of this apostle, who, after Christ had been on the outside, had cursed and denied Him. But when Christ came on the inside, right in the midst of knowing it might be death at any minute, listen at him speak now to the religious world of that day.
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you also yourselves know:
Well, I read that wrong. Excuse me.
... God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourself also know:
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel, the foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slayed:

L-31 Now, watch. Jesus... Peter was reconciling the crowd to believe that that was the Son of God, because God was with Him, working signs and wonders. Now, listen close.
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by signs and wonders, or by miracles and wonders and sign, which God did there. (See?)
Jesus was approved. He had God's approval, no matter what the Pharisees said. They said, "He's a mind reader, a devil," the world, the ecclesiastical world.
But Peter said, "How can you deny it? God was with Him, and we know that."


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