<TITLE>12. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 That's what we need here in the Lane Tech tonight, is faith, not theology, but to believe the risen Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God is alive on earth tonight. Not to try to figure out how He does it, not to try to figure out how it could be, you can't figure God out. You've got to simply believe it. Don't care how scholarly you are, and how many D.D.'s you got on your name, or whatever it is. You cannot explain it. It's got to be an act of faith on your part, 'cause God cannot be explained. Amen.
How can He do it? The mind, when they see something, when they seen Jesus discern a thought, they said, "Oh, now wait a minute. There's something wrong there." So they tried to trick Him to find out what He was doing, how He did it, what He held up His sleeve? What kind of a chemical He had to do this with, that He dropped out of His sleeve, and turned the water into wine, they wondered what it was. What did He have on His hands when He did these things? Some kind of magic... They tried to comb it through. They thought His disciples was His helpers to do it. He had twelve men, what for? See how that carnal, ungodly mind works?

L-40 That's what people get who try to figure out the Bible. You just believe it. When God says it, just say, "That's right, God." What is confession? "Say the same thing." If I make a confession, I say the same thing.
If the Bible said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee," I say, "Amen. That's right. You're the Lord that healed me."
Said, "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."
I'd say, "Amen. He was wounded for my transgressions; with His stripes I'm healed." That settles it. That's confession.
Said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." I will say the same thing. That's all. That's confessing, confessing every word, not just part of It. If part of It's wrong, all of It's wrong. But every Word is God's holy eternal Word. And there's not one precept shall ever fail. It'll work, when faith is put with It to work It with.

L-41 Now, critics will rise like they did then, and so forth, but it doesn't matter. God's work will move right on.
Here a few days ago, a certain minister was in Florida. And he had a woman to take the brace off of a child. And the child did not respond to the prayer of the minister. Why? When it was all found out, it was a setup of the devil to trick the minister, of a bunch of atheistic people who's supposed to be religious to trap the minister.
I was in Minneapolis at the time...?... I told them that to begin with. So don't worry. I've told your all along we're heading for trouble, but blessed is he that endures to the end.
Must I be carried home to heaven on a flower bed of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas? No, I must fight if I must reign. Increase my courage, Lord. I do not ask for everything easy.
And as this minister, as soon as the newspapers could catch it, it swept the nation over. "A minister peeping behind bars." How the devil wanted to criticize Jesus Christ through His ministers. How the devil wanted to make a public show of that; then they blocked Divine healing, which could not be trusted.

L-42 There's an old saying down in the South, where I come from: "Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
And at the same time when that minister's picture was going over the world, or over the United States on the Associated Press, of course, it went over the world. While it was going over the world that Divine healing was fogy, and there wasn't nothing to It, at the same time hundreds of people were killed by doctors, and not one word was said against it. A man during the same time died in my meeting from a shot the doctor had give him that evening in the spine.


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