<TITLE>07. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 And today, to see the same Holy Spirit that was upon Jesus Christ, working in the church, confirming everything that God said, what a marvelous hope it builds up in us to think that we are His children, and blessed of His Presence, and now He's here with us as a infallible proof that He is the Lord God Who made the promise to Abraham. Now, listen to the 17th verse:
Wherein God willing, more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise, the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
That by the immutable thing... which is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

L-27 What a marvelous promise! Two immutable things: God cannot lie and be God. Now, if God has made a promise in His Bible here... We believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of God. And if God has made a promise in this Bible, we have this consolation and know that it's impossible for God to lie. Therefore, when we see He promised it in the Bible, we believe it soul, body, and spirit. It's impossible for Him to lie.
Now, if there's any fault, it's in us, not in God; for God is obligated to His Word, for He's sworn by His Word. Oh, my. I'm sure when we get to seeing it in that light, things begin to shape up and heap up different than what they used to be.
Healing of the body doesn't become a fiction, it becomes a reality. The baptism of the Holy Spirit doesn't become any emotional, worked-up substance. It becomes a reality of the indwelling Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ to change the life.

L-28 A few nights ago in a prayer meeting a man said to me, "The Holy Ghost wasn't given only to the ten--the twelve on the day of Pentecost."
I said, "Well then, what about the hundred and twenty was there at the same time that received it? How about on down at the house of Cornelius when the Gentiles received it? Thirty-three years later when Paul asked the, the Baptists if they had received the Holy Ghost since they believed, and he laid his hands upon them and they received the Holy Ghost... Setting the church at Corinth in order, he also set in the church apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, gifts of healing, and all those marvelous gifts, years and years beyond Pentecost."

L-29 Well then, it's today, to every believer: "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. (How far? All the world. How many? All the people.) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name they shall cast out devils and heal the sick..." and so forth. There you are.
It's God's promise that He swore He would do it. No matter how much rises up to try to counterfeit or impersonate it, how many things raise up to try to contradict it or take it down, it'll go on and on and on forever, for God has swore by Himself that He would keep it.

L-30 If I fail to preach it and lay down, God will raise somebody in my place to go on with it. If you fail to believe it, there'll be somebody step into your place to believe it instead of you. For God has sworn He'd do it.
Oh, what a consolation that gives us. And the beauty part about it, my Christian friends, is to think that now we have the evidence of it. We have it here in blessing. We have it in power. We have it in miracles. We have it in signs. We have it in a picture. We have it in every way, that God has promised it even more than He promised to give it to us. And it's infallible, the Truth: the Truth, not of man, not the truth of some teacher or philosopher, but it's the Truth of Almighty God.
And what a hope it gives us. No wonder we can sing:
 My hope is built on nothing less,
 Than Jesus Blood with righteousness.
 When all around my soul gives way,
 He's all my hope and stay.
 For on Christ, the solid Rock, we stand,
 All other grounds is sinking sand.


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