<TITLE>13. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 Now, this dear old black-backed Bible, I believe It with all my heart. And I bel... If It isn't true, then It's wrong. I wouldn't have nothing to do with It. But I believe that every word of It is inspired, and every Word of It is God's own Word. And I believe that the right mental attitude towards any of those Divine promises will bring them to pass. Now, I believe He has risen from the dead.
And when He was questioned down there that day, when He went through, He found a man. The Father showed Him a vision. He went down and seen a man laying on a pallet. He crossed through blind people, lame people, halt people, withered people, laying there by the pool by the hundreds. The Scripture says so: Saint John 5. And He went on past them till He was looking to see where that vision was. He seen a man lying there on a pallet. He had been that way for, I believe, several years, about twenty-eight years. It wasn't going to kill him. It was a retarded disease, maybe, prostate. Maybe it was a lung trouble or something. It wasn't going to kill him. He healed him, told him to pick up his bed, go on to his house, and he did. The Jews found him, questioned him, brought Jesus to the courts and questioned Him.
They question it today. "Why don't You heal so-and-so? Why don't You heal so-and-so?"
Listen at Jesus in Saint John 5:19. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing; that doeth the Son likewise. I only do as My Father shows Me to do. I can do nothing in Myself."

L-35 But now, look. Jesus, in Him was all the Fullness of the Godhead bodily was in Him. And that woman, what did she do? What did others do? It was their faith that touched Him and got the glory from God through Christ, as they ministered--as He ministered, they by their faith touched Him. Well, the Bible said that after His death, burial, and resurrection, He is now a High Priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right?
Your faith can still touch Him. And if it can touch Him, then He can represent Himself here on earth again among us by one of us. Is that right? And God ascended on high, led captive captive, give gifts unto men. And He has set in the Church first, apostles; second, prophets; after that teachers, evangelist, and pastors. Is that right? God set them in the Church for the perfecting of the Church, that the people might know that He is not dead, that He lives on and will forever. And He's in His Church today doing His High Priest work, working through His people as they yield themselves to Him for the same purpose. And I believe the same Jesus Christ that rose on the first glad Easter morning is alive yet today with His people. Shall we pray.

L-36 Heavenly Father, open the eyes of the people now. We have quoted this wonderful Easter story in our poor simple humble way. But with our hearts we believe with all that is within us that that is the truth. We have seen You prove Yourself over and over, time after time. And we know that You're Jesus Christ, God's Son. And we pray humbly and sincerely and with all of our heart, that You'll bless this people tonight.
Now, I have give them a proposition, Father, and I pray that You'll manifest the Son, the Lord Jesus, here at the platform tonight and out there in the audience, as we yield our soul and spirit to You as vessels. As I yield mine to You for a mouthpiece, yielding my eyes for the vision, yielding my mind for Your Words, they yield their hearts and spirit to receive.
I pray, Father, that You'll work among Your people. And if there should be unbelievers in the midst, may they, tonight, be convinced that the true story of the Easter story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is still true today and Jesus still lives. We ask it in His Name. Amen.


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