<TITLE>15. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 Now, what would do in Sioux Falls here tonight, if somebody passed through here calling themselves, praying for the sick, and they said, "Go over here on the corner, and let's him heal old man Jones over here that sells papers, or so forth like that, then we will believe it."
You know what that is speaking? The same devil that lived then: same thing. The same one that said to Jesus, "Here, you turn these--these stones into bread, and let me see You do it. You perform a miracle; let me see You do it; and I will believe You."
Here some time ago, a church down in Arkansas... I was preaching; they said, "We will give any man a thousand dollars who will--if you will prove one thing, that one person was ever healed by the power of God," as they call it.

L-54 That day I just got me three women that had had cancer, and two crippled men, and three doctors, that's to witness it, and went over to his house. I said, "I've come to collect the thousand dollars, just so we can give it into the foreign missions today. I want your thousand dollars. Here's the people the doctor said was incurable with cancer; here's the doctor to give the witness. Here's men right here that walked on crutches for years and years, and there's no hope for him; here he is walking perfectly and sound. And ask the doctor what done it."
He looked around; he said, "Uh, oh, well, uh... We got to go down to Abilene, Texas," and said, "I tell you the way we do that." Said, "Let me take a little child, and we'll take all of our brethren and put them together. And then we will take a knife and cut that little girl's hand, and then you heal it before us so we can see it done."
I said, "You need mental healing." I said, "Sir, you being a minister, I hate to tell you, but you're possessed of the devil." That's right. I said, "That's what the devil said to my Lord. And I'm going to say the same thing to you that--that my Lord said to your father, 'Get behind me, Satan, thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God.'" That's right. See?

L-55 Certainly! Any man that cut a child's hand. And that's the devil that said, "Come down off the cross, and we will believe You," religious leaders: "Come down off the cross now if You're the Christ; we'll believe You."
"Turn these stones into bread and do this miracle before me; You said You could do it." When He come into His own city, said, "We heard You healed in Capernaum; we heard You healed over there; let's see Him heal something here." And Jesus walked away and marveled at their unbelief, and could do nothing there. That's the same Jesus tonight; that's the same Jesus. It's not for unbelievers; it's for believers.
Notice, then He walks through all that crowd, probably five times as many people as--as here tonight, all crippled, lame, halt, and withered. Historians say they stabbed one another trying to get in and test their faith against the Angel that was in there.

L-56 Then notice what happened. Jesus walked right through that crowd, right around that old blind mother an dad, right around this withered woman standing here, that poor old blind man standing there, across this one here, laying there trembling, dying, walked around through the other ones, crossed by that baby and all this, went over there, and He found a man laying on a little pallet, little bed. We'd call it a pallet down south.
And let's say he had... It was something; wasn't going to hurt him; he had it thirty-eight years; it was retarded. Let's say he had TB, or he had prostate trouble, or something. It was something wasn't going to hurt him. His was going to live a normal life. And Jesus said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
Oh, my, wilt thou? What about thou? Why did He have compassion on a man like that, and leave that one standing there? But "Wilt thou be made whole?"


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