<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>53-0602, The Authority Of The Word, Roberts Park Amphitheater, Connersville, IN, no tape
L-1 ... Christ's Name. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
If the people could just believe, have faith for all things...
Today, way down on the highway many miles below here, almost to Jeffersonville, there was... I stopped in a little place to eat a sandwich... Taking my children, wife home... And I was eating and the phone rang. And from way back in another district, there was--someone had seen the car going down the roads with the signs on it, and I stopped at the restaurant to go pray for a woman who was nigh unto death. And as I was ministering to the lady, what a--a pity I--I thought... That she was just so close to being healed and yet that little precious part of faith was blocked so she couldn't get over it. Oh, if she could just only have seen, she'd been setting here tonight. The Holy Spirit there, perfectly willing, wanting to do it, already had did it... All that can be done, has been already appropriated for every one. All your salvation's already complete: Christ died at Calvary. That settled it. Your healing was completed the same day your salvation was, if you can just believe it.
Now, I appreciated one thing in the woman: that she was sincere. She didn't say she believed when she knew she did not. She was honest about it. She said, "I just can't seem to grasp the faith."

L-2 Now, see, faith doesn't look at any--at any symptoms. Faith doesn't see nothing but victory. Faith has already appropriated it, and there's nothing else to be done. No matter, if you were laying dying, and a half a dozen doctors was stand around saying, "They're blood pressure is dropping. They're heart's failing and..." That wouldn't faze you one bit. If you believe that you're going to live, no matter what would take place, you still believe it. See? That's faith. If you can just get to that... That's what you need tonight, is that type of faith.

L-3 Now, this centurion... A centurion was--is a man that's over, I think the right word would be, over a century which would be a hundred men. And he was--put himself in the background.
Now, I want you to do that: keep yourself in the background. Never be somebody that you're not. I've often wondered, when wheat was growing in the field, you see the little wheat that sticks up and just feels like it's so--the inferiority complex. There's nothing in that head: a heavy head bows, a full head bows. A full heart will bow. "Lord... (See?) not worthy..."
But this man thought he was unworthy: He said, "I'm not worthy that--that You should come under my roof." He said, "And I didn't think myself worthy to go to You, so I sent someone else." But said, "Lord, I am a man under authority, and I say to this man go, and he goes. And to this man come, and he comes," for he had authority. He... In other words, if he told that man to go, he must go, because he's over him. He's superior to him, and he must obey his master.

L-4 Now, notice. In his own line of work he saw Who Jesus was. He said, "I know that if I say to this man go, he goeth; to this man come, and he cometh. Now, Lord, I'm not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just speak the word." There you are: the authority. He knew that Jesus had all power over all sickness and all diseases; over death, hell; and he knew that all Jesus had to say was speak the word. That settles it.
Now, Jesus was willing to come in and lay His hands on the boy, rebuke the fever. So it astonished Him. He said, "Why, I have not seen so faith--so much faith, not in Israel." That was the believers. He never seen such faith among them. Just to know that His Word, It was a power of testament, His power of authority. And Christian friend, tonight, His Word is the Power of authority. What He says, it will be, regardless of what you or I think. It's going to be just the same.


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