<TITLE>04. Par 8-9</TITLE>L-8 A lady here some time ago sent her boy away to school to learn to be a minister. So she taken real sick, and she sent to the school, and said for the boy to stand by, for the doctor said she might die. It was... She had pneumonia in the worst stage. So the boy made ready to come home on a moment's call. And so he didn't hear no more. Said the next day his mother was all right, so he let it go.
So when he come home on a vacation, he said to his mother; he said, "Mother," said, "what happened to you when you was so sick and you got well so quick." Said, "What doctor did you see?"
She said, "Hallelujah. Jesus."
Said, "Mother."
She said, "You know, there's a... You know that little mission is around the corner?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "Well, there was one of those ladies down there come up to see me, said she was led to come see me. And my doctor give me up."
And said, "Down at our church, we pray for the sick, and anoint them with oil, and pray for the sick." And said, "Would you let our pastor, come pray for you?"
She said, "Well, I'd be glad." And so he said... Went and got the pastor; he come up, and he read out of the Bible in Mark the 16th chapter, where if you lay hands on the sick they shall recover." And said, "The minister read that to me out of the Bible and laid hands on me, and I got well."
Oh, he said, "Ridiculous, mother, ridiculous." Said, "That's just the uneducated people believe that." Said, "Now, in the seminary we learned that Mark the 16th chapter, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired."
Huh, the woman said, "Hallelujah."
"Why," he said, "Mother, the very audacity. Well," said, "you act like one of them down there."
So she said, "Hallelujah."
He said, "What's the matter with you?"
She said, "I was just a thinking. If God could heal me with uninspired Word, what could He do with that really is inspired?"
As Billy Sunday once said, "The argument is thinner than the broth made out of the shadow of the chicken that starved to death." So it's very thin against Divine healing, because just a little too late; God's already doing it. So that... The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof.

L-9 Well, over in this blessed old Bible, the old Textbook, we'll take the same subject tonight: of Abraham. And tomorrow night, remember; come early. I'm going to have the boys giving out their cards and things early, if we can, for a great prayer line tomorrow night, the Lord willing.
Now, last night we left off where Abraham, I believe had went up, and God had taken him out of the picture, showing that His covenant was wholly...?... It was no strings tied to it. It was God by His sovereign grace had promised unconditionally that He would save Abraham and his seed. And we found out last night in the reading of the Word that we are Abraham's seed when we are dead in Christ, and are heirs of the same promise. That right?
Abraham's seed. Every man that's born of the Spirit of God is Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. Paul said, "We...'' The Jews--not Jews outwardly but Jews inwardly...
Now, the promise was to the seed, not seeds of Abraham. Abraham had several sons, but only one through Sarah was the promise.


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