<TITLE>06. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 For instance, if I was a doctor, and you came to me and you said, "Oh, doctor, I've got a terrible headache. It comes all the time, every day, and I just can't get rid of it."
And I'd give you a handful of aspirin, say, "Go on." or give you a hypo just to knock the headache, I'm not much of a doctor. No, I'm not. What I am, I'm just only trying to get rid of you, get you out of the office, or something on that order. A real doctor, if you go to him, and tell him you're having persistent headaches, He will say, "Come in, strip down. Get on the table." He will examine you and do everything. He will not give you nothing, till he find out what he's giving it for. He diagnoses a case, a real doctor, till he finds where the trouble is, and then he starts from there, He knows what he's working on then. If he just brushes you off, that's not much of a doctor.

L-22 Same thing, many times in praying for the sick, you notice the case that's come up. The real best way to do it would be to each case, not in mass meetings like this, in my home or office somewhere, where I could take the patient and find out just where the trouble lays. There's some cause for everything. And you'll--if you'll watch, it's very seldom you ever hear me rebuke a evil spirit. You realize gifts, like this, could cause you to lose out with God? Moses was a prophet, and he--God had entrusted him with power. And He told him to go out and speak to the rock. And instead of speaking to the rock, Moses got angry and smote the rock. And that broke every record of the Bible, right there. See? Because that was Christ. Christ wasn't smitten twice, He was only smitten once. But He had power to bring the rock--well, water from the rock, rather, whether it was God's will or not, 'cause he was a prophet.

L-23 Elijah, the young fellow, went bald-headed when he was a young man. The little children run behind him, and called him "old bald-head." And that angered that prophet, and he put a curse on those children, and two she bears killed forty-two little innocent children, because that prophet cursed those children in the Name of the Lord. That's not the nature of the Holy Spirit. See? But God dealt with him.
That same way, we have to watch what you're doing. When a patient comes, be careful. Sometime there's sin laying there. And if--if this person... Here stands Mr. John Doe. He went out, a few months ago; he was untrue to his family. He did something evil, and God let Satan put a curse on him to bring him back. Now, here he comes up on the platform, and I stand here and anoint him with oil: "Come out of him, devil." I might just scream as all till I get hoarse, and that devil will lay right there. Certainly, he will. The first thing it is, and if you had power of your own to take that curse off of that man, and him in that condition, that God put that on there for something else, and you come around and take it off... See what I mean? You have to be careful. Then you're in trouble with God, right away.


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