<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 Now, but we are sons of God like He was, but adopted sons of God by His grace. By the death of Jesus, God's son, brings us into relationship to God. Now then, God with His adopted sons, has set in the church, some apostles, some teachers, some prophets, some evangelists, and so forth, down like that. Now, they're just small gifts.
Now, we will take, whether Jesus got weak or not with all that power. One day He was going along, and a woman touched His garment. And she--that was her point of contact. She believed Him with all of her heart. And she run off out in the audience, somewhere. Jesus turned around, and said, "Now, who touched Me?"
And the apostles said, "Why, Lord, who touched You," why said, "Everybody's touching You. Why say, 'Somebody touched You?'"
He said, "But I perceive that virtue has gone out of Me." Is that true?

L-22 What does "virtue" mean? "Strength." Is that right? "I got weak." in other words. "Somebody touched Me; I got weak." Now, what did that woman do? That woman, with her faith in Jesus Christ, being the Gift of God, drawed dividends on her faith from Him. Is that plain? Her faith operated God's gift in Jesus Christ.
Jesus didn't know the woman. He didn't know who touched Him, He would've said, "You who touched Me." He didn't know it. He said, "I don't know nothing, or do nothing till the Father shows Me first, then I go do it." And this woman touched and she drawed from Jesus, the very desire of her heart, because she believed that He was the Emmanuel. And see, her faith...

L-23 Then He turned around, He said... He looked. Then when that virtue went out, He seen where it was moving from, where the...?... come over all, probably many more people than there is here tonight. He looked way back in the audience, and He said to her, "Thy faith has made thee whole." The blood issue had stopped. See? Now, she pulled out of Jesus, what she desired out of God. For God--Jesus was God representative, the body that God lived in here on earth. Now, to--now, that's when a person operated the gift of God.
Now, listen, it's not me, that needs to be for you. Now, I'm fixing to close these services, just in a night or two, start praying for sick. And it'd never do me--I have never been--I don't know nothing about it. It's your faith in God, that says the same thing. It--it's a gift of God. I'm not God's gift. That Light and--and Angel that you see the pictures of. The scientific world, now all over the world, Germany, United States, and everywhere, took the picture of it. That's God's gift.

L-24 I was borned at the time that gift was sovereignly given to me. But I couldn't do one thing with that gift, unless you believed it. It's your faith in what I'm telling you about Jesus Christ, that draws dividends on what God has did for you in Jesus Christ. Do you see it?
Now, that's what makes me weak at the platform. That's why--the reason you have to pack me out. Do you see it Scripturally now? See, it's you using God's gift, not me, it's you. Now, every one of you now just shut down on me, say, "I don't believe; He's a hypocrite, and I don't believe nothing of it," there could not be one thing done. That's right.


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