<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 And I'm so glad tonight in my heart that in this little group here in this city, there's somebody God can witness to. I--I'm glad of that--that you like to hear the Gospel, to love our Lord Jesus enough to come out, listen reverent and very nice.
I'm trusting that God will not have any sick people among us when the service ends. Many has been healed. I've got testimonies. And I'm sure that something's going on right on. It's the reason it's something the way I'm standing here now, waiting word. I don't know what to say, but I know either God's power has to linger near or death one, shortly. So I'm--I don't know what He will say.
But now in the day we can't expect the Gospel of Christ to be popular. Now, the--the Gospel--this is not the Gospel. This is a part of the Gospel. The--Paul said the word--the Gospel come not in word only, but through power and manifestation of the Holy Ghost. Is that right? The Gospel is not the Word only. The Word's just a dead letter. It's got to take the--the letter quickened and made alive and brought to pass what the letter says it'll do. That's the Gospel.

L-5 Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to ever nation." Now, listen to see whether that's right or not. Preach the Gospel to ever nation. That's the United States and to all the world, and "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned; and these signs shall follow them that believe: In my Name they'll cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents, drink deadly things, or lay their hands on the sick, shall not harm them."
Now, in order... He didn't say go teach the Word. He said, "Go preach the Gospel." He never did commission, "Go teach the Word." "Go preach the Gospel." And the--the Word is the beginning or the forerunner of the Gospel. The Word goes out, and the Gospel of the power of the demonstration of God follows the Word--makes the Word manifest. That is the Gospel. And in order if man could preach the Gospel, the last Word...

L-6 Maybe there would be someone who wouldn't believe in Divine healing. I wonder what you'd think of this: the first commission that Jesus gave the Church was to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out devils, freely as you receive, freely give. The first commission was ever give to the apostles--to the Church.
Not only the apostles. You said, "That was just the apostles." I beg your pardon. There's seventy of them, not just apostles.
Someone said the other day, "That the power only come to apostles." It was give to whosoever will, he that believeth, not to the apostles. There was seventy sent that wasn't apostles.
Philip was not apostle, and he went down to Samaria, and cast out devils, and healed the lunatics, and had joy and shouting and screaming and going on to the city down there, and he wasn't apostle. He was a deacon. He wasn't even a preacher, and he had signs following his ministry. To demonstrate the power of God is preaching the Gospel.


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