<TITLE>03. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 But you know, a lot of times, we people--the people who are smart and educated, they stop and try to figure all that out. That's the reason they miss it. You can't figure it out. I don't care how smart you are. God's not known by education; He's known by faith. You just look at Him and believe. If you can't see, believe anyhow. That's the way we receive Christ.
May the Lord bless you. You're a very fine audience of people. I wish now, watching the clock, trying to get just as much time in as I can for the praying for the sick. I want you to do something for me tonight. I want you to accept it tonight. Just accept it, regardless of how you feel. Just believe it in your heart and settle it tonight; say, "This is it. This is all of it. I'm now accepting it." Usually they wait till the last night of the meeting to do it; weeks later here come their testimonies in. "Well, you know I hadn't walked for years, but I--I was setting in my room and I... All at once I got up and walked." Well, don't wait till after the meeting's over. Do it now. After you go over, you realize that last night, it's a crucial time. You've got to press hard. That's when it happens. You've got to get desperate about it. You really got to mean it.

L-12 A minister was telling me not long ago, said (he was leaving the city in his car), and they was poor people, like really Holy Ghost preachers usually are. So he had his stuff packed up in the back of the car, and he was moving out, and said... His wife said... His name was Vance, Levi Vance. He'd been healed of a cancer. He was setting on a curb; the hospital had turned him out to die. And a kind woman come along and told him, if he'd come up and be prayed for, he'd be healed."
He said, "I'm a Jew." Said, "I don't care what you are, Jesus was too." And 'course she told him a little error. She said, "Jesus didn't... The blood of a Jew that saved us." It wasn't the blood of a Jew. It was the Blood of God that saved us, not the blood of a Jew. He wasn't no man's Blood. He was the creative Blood of Jehovah God, Who created the Blood cell. He wasn't neither Jew not Gentile by Blood. He was God. God's Blood saved us.

L-13 He went home and he begin to pray over it, think about what to do. And he was studying about it and he heard about the meeting. And he looked around towards the bathroom, there hung a light, hanging there, and a voice spoke, said, "This is my beloved Son, hear ye Him."
He was prayed for that night in the city where he went--he was... He went home. They thought they had the Salvation Army on the back of the streetcar. He had his hat on his cane, going up and down the aisles, just a screaming at the top of his voice. And, my, he was--really was a minister. He said that when he was leaving the city, his wife said, "Levi, I want a drink."
Said, "Well," said, "all right. You want me to stop here."
Said, "No, wait till you get to the next hydrant."
Said, "Honey, here's a hydrant."
Said, "Well, wait. We'll find another one." Come on, till after awhile they got out of town. She got so thirsty, she couldn't hardly stand it. Happened to look way back out in a field, where there was a bunch of cows, there was a--a pump. Said, "You've got to stop." So he stopped and grabbed the cup. And 'fore he could get the car stopped hardly, nearly, she was out and across the fence. She was really wanting a drink then, got to pressing.
Whenever you really get to pressing, that's when God comes on the scene, the desperate hour.

L-14 Now, tonight, I want to read some out of the Word: 1st chapter of the Acts, the 8th verse.
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is  come upon you:... you shall be witnesses unto me both in  Jerusalem,... Judaea,... Samaria, and unto the uttermost  parts of the earth.
May the Lord, add His blessings to the reading. Shall we bow our heads while we talk to the Author.


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