<TITLE>01. Par 1-8</TITLE>54-0329, Redemption By Power, The Church Of The Open Door, Louisville, KY, 80 min
L-1 Thank you, kindly. Good evening, friends. It's a privilege to be here tonight to address you again in the Name of our dear Lord Jesus Christ. And it's always a privilege to meet God's people anywhere, and to speak of that great Name Jesus.
I certainly appreciate the song our brother just sang. That--that's my favorite. In the day that when they're trying to make Jesus just merely a prophet, or a good man, or a teacher, that really brings out His Deity, what He was. And I believe that He was...

L-3 There was never One like Him on earth, never will be. He was Emmanuel. He was Alpha, Omega, the Beginning and the End, He that was, which is, and shall come, the Root and Offspring of David; the Morning Star. In Him dwelt Deity. In Him was God.
"God was in His Son, in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." Jesus said, "It's not me that doeth the works, but it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. My Father and I are One," God made manifest in flesh. What a marvelous revelation of God's love to us, He would unfold Himself and come down and dwell in human flesh in order to take away sin and sickness from the human race and redeem us back to the Father. That's wonderful, isn't it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] We sure appreciate that.

L-5 Now, last night I guess I'll have to kind of apologize. I... Billy got me a little quick last night, because it was kind of a... I got weak. But those meetings, that discerning, and no one will never know what that is, 'less it's just... You have to come into it to know it. See? There's no way of trying to explain it. There's not a--a way that you could do it. It's just an experience that--that no one knows about, only those who go through it. What it does to the human race, what it does to the man, brings the very life right of him.
Well, you're living in two worlds. You're in a world here, and you're in a world there, be with somebody else maybe fifty years ago; and you may be with somebody years from today to come; and yet you realize you're standing on the platform here, and you're speaking something that happened many, many years ago: maybe weeks ago, months ago, another nation, another place, or something. And then you try to keep yourself straight in that in thinking; tell you, it's quite a thing. But the Lord has blessed us so far in it. And we're very happy, and trust now that God will get glory from the meeting.

L-7 Now, in the--the services tonight, I thought while we're just a little handful of people together; our meetings is only advertised locally here, and it's just for the local people. And before we get into the larger part of the meetings, I was thinking today, that I would try to maybe get some of the old fashion teaching out of the Bible to the people, that when the great event comes, if God sends it to us, then we'll be able to understand it better.

L-8 After all, Divine healing is just the--the bait on the hook to catch the fish, as you know. It's just... That's the one... The fish grabs at the bait and gets the hook. So our main, our one alternative is this, that souls won to Jesus Christ.
If God healed you tonight, you may get sick again before you die. You may be sick again in a year from now, or two years from now. may be sick in a week from now, or a day from now, I don't know. But there's one thing sure: you're going to leave this world some of these days, 'cause this is just patched up.
But if that soul ever comes in contact with the Holy Spirit and is born again, you have Eternal Life. No matter what happens here, you never perish. Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words, believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (that's present tense) Everlasting Life, shall not come into condemnation; but hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life." That'd make us all Methodists and start shouting, wouldn't it? That's right. To think that, that God has did that. Now, that's not my Word; that's His: Saint John 5:24.


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