<TITLE>12. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 I said, "In my heart." That's right. And I said, "The trouble of it is, doctor, in the garden of Eden, there's two trees; one was knowledge and one was faith. One was Life. One was death of knowledge, other one was life by faith. And as long as they eat by faith of this tree, all right, they lived. But when he got on this tree, he died. The first bite he took, he separated himself from God. And man continually has been biting off of that tree. And every time he takes a bite by knowledge, he destroys himself. God destroy nothing. Man destroys himself through knowledge.

L-43 Look, he bit hisself off some gun powder, kills his comrades. He bit hisself off of an automobile off the tree, kills more than all the wars put together. Is that right? Knowledge, knowledge, eating off that tree. He has got hisself an hydrogen bomb now; I wonder what he's going to do with that. See?
But the trouble of it is, these people, they figure up so much, on this tree of knowledge, then when they can't figure it out any longer, they say, "bosh with all of it."
Listen, in the Name of the Lord, listen: When you can't figure out any more, that's the time to believe. It's like someone going to swim, as long as you got your feet on the ground, all right. But when you step in the step off, there's the time to swim. It's where you can't figure out, then you believe from there on. Figure up as much as you can, then when you can't figure any more, then from right there start believing, believing.

L-44 The doctors says, all right, "I went to the doctor." He says you got a tumor. "I can't do you no good; it's done went through you. You're... It's malignant. I--I can't do nothing for you. Go over to the other doctor, I can't do nothing for you. It's done." Then from right there start believing. Believe from right there, and say, "Lord Jesus, they can't do nothing, but I'm coming to You." See? Then God will go to moving on the scene.
Do you believe it?
Now, listen to the disciples, a little later in the 6th, in the 36th verse of the same chapter, Jesus speaking, rather, here. Listen at Him what He says now. They was all talking about, "We had Moses. We had this. And we had these others. You see?" But listen what Jesus said, "But I have greater witness, than of John." Now, watch. "For the works which the Father has given Me to finish, the works which I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me."

L-45 Acts, the 2nd chapter, about 24th verse, said: "Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you by signs and wonders and miracles..." They couldn't deny it. They said He was a devil. But now, wait, right at the last of it here, when Jesus was going away, He taught the people in such a way, they didn't understand it. They understood it by the letter. He was speaking to them as an authority. Now, here's what they said in the 16th chapter, the 30th verse beginning, 16th chapter of Saint John 30th verse.
Now said the disciples, now we are sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou comest forth from God... ("By the signs and the wonders that You do, we believe that you come from God.")
Jesus answered and said, Do ye now believe?

L-46 May the Lord God grant the same... Do you now believe? If God in heaven will send His Spirit tonight, in our midst, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to anoint a human being, and to show the same signs and wonders, that He did back there in the days of Jesus, will you then accept Him, believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? And upon the merits of your faith in Him, you're willing to accept your healing, or your salvation, or whatever you have need of?
Let's bow our heads then, while we have: "Only Believe," if you will.


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