<TITLE>18. Par 184-192</TITLE>L-184 There laid a man crippled from his mother's womb. Poor, old beggar, looked out there, and he wanted something. Peter said, "Now, silver and gold, I have none. I don't have any money. But such as I have I'll give it to you, if you want to accept it." And he looked up at him, as if to receive something. He said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk."
And so the man couldn't move. So Peter just walks over and took him by the hand, him and John both, and lifted him up. Said, "Didn't you hear what we said? Stand up and walk." That's it. The man stood up. And well, why, he said... The first thing you know... Just held him there a little bit, and his ankle bones got a little bit better and he started off.
He said, "Well, looky here." And away he went. And the first thing you know, he begin to leaping, and jumping, and running.
And you know what that people said? Said, "What's the matter with them men?" Why, they took them in there and beat them and put them in prison. "Why," said, "they oughtn't to do this. It never come through the church." There you are.

L-188 Now, the 4th chapter, begins.
 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captains of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them.
Peter and them still speaking to the people... Oh, they was. Listen up here. Let me get just a verse or two behind this, in the 3rd chapter, kind of back it up a little here. Let's take the 20th verse.
 And he shall send Jesus... (Peter preaching)... He shall send Jesus... which before was preached unto you:
Through the prophets and everything (See?), told them they ought to received it, but they didn't. He told them back there, said, "With wicked hands you've crucified the Prince of Life." Told them, said, "You did it through ignorance, 'cause God said you was going to do it."
Why couldn't those priests believe? Why couldn't the religious, holy men... Oh, I can't let this go by, Brother Neville. Look, religious, holy men, living in every bit of light they had, and everything else, religious, holy men, and they could not, the Bible said they could not believe on the Lord Jesus. Why? God predestinated it.
Isaiah spoke it and said, "They have eyes..." Said, "They could not believe on the Lord," because Isaiah said, under inspiration... God dropped it down to him about eight hundred years before they come, said, "They have eyes and can't see; and ears, they can't hear." And therefore they could not receive Jesus. No matter how much they wanted to believe, there was something that wouldn't let them, because God had said so.

L-192 Brother, you ought to be the happiest person in the world to know this morning that you're setting here as a believer on the Lord Jesus. Yes, sir, brother. You don't realize, or a sinner doesn't know what it means, that when Almighty God knocks on his heart. Why, there's nothing like it, nowhere. You couldn't... You could search and comb the heavens and you couldn't find anything equal to that, that how a holy, infinite God would come down and knock at the heart of a sinner's door and want to live buddies with him. Whew. It ought to make us break loose, everybody.
Watch here. He said, "It was before preached to you."


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