<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>54-0217, Jesus On The Authority Of The Word, East Alton -Wood River Community High School, Wood River, IL, 83 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Brewer. You may be seated. It's indeed a great privilege to be here tonight in the service of the Lord, to pray for the sick and the afflicted, to minister in the Name of our dear Lord Jesus Christ, Who loved us, gave His Life that we who are unworthy might be made partakers of His grace and His fellowship in the ages that is to come. And may His blessings and His august Presence anoint every one of us now with His Being, and may it not leave any until we leave the building, for He to receive glory.
We are always... The healing services usually make me, maybe a little nervous, not exactly in the way that would be the nervous like you might think. It's--it's the way it works on me, ministering to the sick.

L-2 And most always, spiritual people are considered odd or strange. We would think of the great poets of--the world has produced, for instance, like Stephen Foster. He was considered a neurotic. He gave America some of it's best folk songs: "Old Folks Of Home," "Swanee River." And after the inspiration would leave him, he would--he would go out and get drunk. And then when he finally called a servant and took a razor and committed suicide... And then, William Cowper, who wrote that famous old song:
 There is a fountain filled with blood
 Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
 Sinners plunged beneath the flood,
 Lose all their guilty stains.
This famous man, William Cowper, I stood at his grave, just recently, in London. And after he received the inspiration to write that song, when he came out of it. He tried to find a river to commit suicide.

L-3 It's not bad while you're up there; it's wonderful, or while you're down here. But it's in between the time. You don't know where you're at. You say, "Well, that's songwriters." Well, prophets, Jonah, as we spoke of him last evening, God gave him a message to go tell a city the size of St. Louis over here, to repent. And the prophet, after delivering his message, up and down the streets, to a million illiterate people, some of them didn't know which was right or left hand. They repented in such a way, till they put sackcloth on their animals.
Then he set down under a little gourd tree. And after the inspiration left him, he prayed for God to take his life. He didn't know where he was at. Didn't understand.

L-4 Elijah the great prophet of old, Jehovah's great witness, when he went to Mount Carmel, called up Israel before Baalim, to see which was God, he said, "If Baalim be god, serve him. If God be God, serve Him."
When God anointed him with inspiration, give him a vision and told him how to do things... And he went out there and called all the prophets of Baalim and let them make a sacrifice. They screamed and cut themselves: no god. But Elijah killed a bullock, laid it upon the rock, the altar, and said, "Lord, let it be known that Thou art God and I am Your servant." And said, "I did all of this at Your command," showing that the Lord had showed him what to do.
And when he fulfilled the vision the Lord showed him, the Fire of God fell out of the heavens and consumed the sacrifice. It hadn't rained for three years and six months. He'd closed the heavens, because the Lord had told him so. And he told the king that no water, even dew wouldn't fall until he called for it. Then he went out, and set down, and prayed again, and there come a--a gush of rain. It watered all the land.
And as soon as the inspiration left him, by the threat of a woman he run in to the wilderness and wandered for forty days and nights. And when God found him, wandering around out there, wondering if he was beside himself, he had crawled back in a cave somewhere. God called him.


<A HREF="P2">Next Page</A>