<TITLE>05. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 May the Lord add His blessings to that. And for just a little subject, we'll take, "At Thy Word, Lord, I'll Let Down The Net."
Now, many of us in looking or approaching the subject of Divine healing and so forth... As we are tonight praying for the sick, God willing, I wish to make this statement, that everyone will be sure to know that I do not claim to be a Divine healer. I don't believe there's one on earth. And I don't believe there ever was one on earth. Even the Son of God, Himself didn't claim to be a Divine healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the work; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the work."
And now, Christians, and to you maybe--maybe non-Christians, there's no power in man, never was, and never will be, to heal the sick. It all comes from God. No matter... I--I have nothing in me; no other man has anything in them to save or forgive.

L-20 Now, sin is that--is the cause of sickness. Sick--sickness all comes from sin. It's a attribute of sin. Before we had any sickness, we had no sin. Sin followed sickness. So there if you deal with sin, you're bound to deal with its attributes. You just have to. And anyone who'd preach the Gospel of salvation from sin would have to preach Divine healing or you couldn't preach the Gospel. See?
You couldn't kill a--a dog, hit it in the head and kill it, without killing its foot also. See? You'd have to kill the rest of its body. So the head of it is sin, and all this weary and sickness and all attributes, even death itself, is all wrapped up caused by sin. Man didn't have to die, didn't have to be sick. He didn't have to weary, didn't have to shift for himself. Everything come after the fall.

L-21 Now, in this... But God hath set in the Church, gifts, first the Bible. Now, I'm strictly a fundamentalist. If anything doesn't come from this Bible, it isn't true. I believe that this is God's Truth. And everything, every doctrine must be based upon this New Testament, the New Testament Church.
And now, we see in the Bible that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, when He came to the earth, He came to rid sin and sickness, divorce it, put it away forever from His people. And claimed that He would return again, but in His absence, that He gave His Church the same authority that He had.
If we'll notice what authority He had, it did not come... Jesus didn't go around healing people because He wanted to; He only healed them as God would let Him heal them.

L-22 We notice His ministry, as I quoted it the other night. If we can find out what kind of a ministry Jesus Christ had Himself, then we can find out whether He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. My contentions is this: that Jesus raised from the dead. He is not dead. He's alive, just as alive as He ever was and ever will evermore be alive. He isn't dead.
He was only--only absent just a little while from the earth and had to bear our sins to hell as He was made sin in our stead, to take our sins, but knowing no sin Himself, but an innocent substitute for we guilty sinners, taking our sins and sickness to hell when He went in our stead. But God raised Him up on the third day for our justification. As we look and see the empty tomb, we realize that we're freely justified in the sight of God, and God has been well pleased with the price that was paid of the death of His Son at Calvary.
He said, "This is my beloved Son, hear ye Him."
Jesus at the cross said, "It's finished." The atonement was paid for and made, rather at Calvary. What kind of a ministry did Jesus have? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, don't you audience tonight think if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever that He will... can do the same today that He did yesterday and forever?


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