<TITLE>18. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 Notice, Jambres and Jannes... What was the test? What was the final test? We're predicted in the last days that the antichrist will have power. What kind of power? He will do great miracles. Did the Bible say so? Sure he did. He said, "He will even make fire come down out of heaven?" Is that right? But not one place did the Bible predicted the antichrist would heal a sick person, 'cause he can't. God is the only One that can heal. "I'm the Lord Who healeth all of thy diseases."
That was a showdown test between the false and the real when He come down there to Egypt. They throwed down their sticks and made snakes. They did the same thing, Jambres and Jannes, before Moses and Aaron. And they performed miracles and so did they. But they could bring the plague of boils, but they broke out too and couldn't get healed.
And when Moses and Aaron had power to take it away, it proved that they said, "This is the finger of God." And today Divine healing is considered of the devil by a lot of modern thinkers--that Divine healing is of the devil. It's the power of Almighty God. It's exactly in an individual faith in a resurrected Lord Jesus. "The things that I do, shall you also; even more than this for I go to My Father. I'll be with you always to the end of the world." Their junction time was there. Miracles was performed.

L-66 God led them out through the Red Sea, and He opened up the Red Sea, by faith, Moses and them. Miracles was performed, and the people knowed that they was at the end time, a junction. Wish we had time to stay longer on it, but we have some more junctions coming. It was a junction time.
When Abraham and Lot journeyed together, Abraham to be heir of the world, all things. Now, he had a lukewarm backslidden church member with him, his nephew, blood relation to him, and his name was Lot, a lukewarm, modernistic, bloodless church member (That's right.), just a very type of today. They had it in every age. They got it today: A form of godliness, denying the power thereof. They got it today.

L-67 There was Lot going along, right along, just as religious as he could be. But when it come to the showdown, their spiritual understanding... Why, it even begin way back when Cain and Abel... When Cain, a modern man, came to the church and the altar, built a church... Cain built a church.
What am I trying to say to you? I'm trying to tell you, my friend that just going to church, and making a confession, and doing good works will never save you. You've got to be borned again. It has to come as a spiritual revelation.
Look at Cain. If you could just look at those two boys, both of them, Cain and Abel. We'll leave the text right here and go back just for a minute. Look at Cain and Abel to begin it with. Surely you see it's pro and con always, the right and wrong. And it is today.

L-68 Notice this. When Cain and Abel, both of them, both of them boys built an altar to God. They built a church to the Lord. Now, if belonging to church is all that God requires, then He would be [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] neither was he a communist. He knelt down an worshipped the Lord. Is that right? Cain worshipped the Lord: sincere. If sincerity is all God required, He'd have to justify Cain. But there is a way that seemeth right unto a man. Oh, let me sink this deep in your heart. Don't forget it.
Spiritual revelation, there was no Bible in that day. That was the only creatures there were. But by revelation, Abel brought a lamb, faith... Cain brought works and church membership and the other things and built a church, said, "Surely Jehovah likes beauty." Jehovah...?... with the big lilies and things laying over the altar, like you do on Easter. About the last time they see you till Easter again. What is it? God don't want the Easter lily on the altar. He wants you on the altar. Certainly.


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