<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 You say, "I have faith to believe." But you're afraid to let it loose. What good does it do a bird to have wings, if he isn't out of the cage. That's right. His wings doesn't do him any good. He's got to get out and throw his wings. In this church tonight there's enough faith to heal every person here, but you're afraid to get out of the cage. Get out of the cage. Don't feed your bird more food. You can feed your bird ever such orthodox food; if you don't let him out of the cage, what good's it going to do him? That's right. It ain't your food; it's turn Him loose.
He's not a God of history, altogether. He's the same today. How can people claim him to be something that was and isn't now? When did our God lose His power? When was He ever any different? What's--what's the use of talking about a Holy Ghost the apostles had, that helped and blessed people then, if He won't do the same today? I can't make sense out of it. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He is, and He will ever be more, Jesus Christ...?... Same God, we love Him. And He...

L-14 Those Pharisees read the same Bible that the apostles read, but they didn't have faith to put into practice what they read. Every denomination today reads the same Bible. But what I want to see, somebody's got faith enough, that'll step out and take the word of it. Amen. That's what we need, somebody to practice what they believe.
Faith without works is dead. Doesn't do you any good to have faith. You say, "I believe that's the Bible." Well, if it is the Bible, It's got promises. And if you believe that's true, well, the only thing you have to do is to let your faith loose with it. Practice what you believe. Every bit's a seed.
I was walking through your city today. I see you've got many fruit trees; that's very nice. Look at that fruit tree just a moment. That little fruit tree, when it was just a little bitty thing, no bigger than that, every apple that was ever on the tree, and ever would be on the tree, was on it when it was that big. If it wasn't, where did it come from?. Where'd the apples come from? You plant it, and it has to drink. It drinks water. And it drinks more and more. And more it drinks, it pushes out leaves, pushes out branches, pushes out blossoms, pushes out apples.

L-15 And that's the way a Christian is. When you're planted in Christ, the only thing you have to do is go to drinking. It gets it's vitamin out of water. And the Christian gets his vitamin from the Word. Then you drink, drink more, and spread out, push out. Push out salvation. Push out through the Holy spirit. Push out, till that crippled arm comes straight. Just keeps drinking. Drink. Planted by the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. Jesus Christ is the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. Drink till you can't drink no more. Drink until you become drunken, that you forget all your theology and believe God. And drink till your well. And then just keep on drinking. Amen. God lives.

L-16 Jesus, walking that road, yonder is Calvary before Him in a few days. He set His face towards Calvary; that blind man's faith stopped Him. He looked way back, said, "Thy faith has saved thee." The crowd goes on down the road. The blind man stood there, saying, "How did that happen?" Why, he said, "I can see."
He kept looking. After while he could see his hand. When he begin to see his hand, he started screaming. Down the road he went to see Jesus, screaming, giving God praise. What a wonderful testimony.
I was reading a little story on him, here sometime ago. A little book said he had been blind for years. He was a married man. He had a--he had a little girl. And so one night, he would... He used to go up to the gates of the city, and he had... He was a beggar. And they said he had two little turtledoves. And they would do tumbles over each other to entertain the--the pass-bys. And doing these little things would cause him to get a coin, where otherwise he wouldn't.


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