<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Now, these disciples were defeated because of their unbelief. Jesus had gone up on the mountain and you know what? I'm kind of glad that they were defeated right then, 'cause that just straightens everything out for me.
Oh, we see times... Oh, here, I've seen Joneses prayed for; I've seen this one prayed for. Never helped them. Sure. The child was prayed for by disciples who had power to heal him. Jesus Christ [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] servants, gave them power to do it, and they were defeated. Certainly. Didn't have nothing to do with it.
Jesus was upon the mountain, and here when the first defeat come out of this earthy drama, the scene. Here was all the pastors out and down in the valley, questioning them. "Uh-huh. I thought He give you power to do it. Let's see you do it. Now, out there he is."

L-16 And the disciples were praying and casting out the devil or trying to. The kid just going right on in the epilepsy. Said, "I...?... "Such a thing of it, it's some kind of a trick. Days of miracles is past."
And here stood, maybe the man, the father of the child maybe went out and got his pastor, said, "Pastor, what do you think about these disciples, or this fellow called Jesus of Nazareth that's going around here casting out devils, they say."
"Aw, it's a telepathy. There's nothing to it." 'Course the Pharisee Jones knowed all about it, you know.
"I'll tell you we're having an association meeting in a few days and if you bring your kid up, I hear them disciples is going to be around here. So we'll just take him over and challenge them to do it. Yes, sir."
Now, that's just the devil, the way he works. "Do something before me and let me see it."

L-17 I had a man not long ago to challenge me on the radio first, that he'd give a thousand dollars to anybody that could prove that they were healed--Divine healing. And I took two doctors with me and four people, walked up to his steps. Said, "Well, it's over in Texas where we got it." Said, "What we want to do is take a knife and cut a little kid's arm, and you hold it before us brethren, and let us see you heal it, and then we'll believe you."
I said, "You need healing in the head." And I said, "There's something wrong with you. You're not mentally right, man." Certainly. Any man that wants you to cut a baby's arm, hold it there, and then heal it before them. Why, certainly, we... No one sensible... That's even beyond the answer of intelligence. That's right. Sure it is.
And I said, "What about this woman right here, and her stands her doctor that said she had cancer and now she's well? There's the doctor's statement. I want the thousand dollars for a missionary trip." He wouldn't give it to me. Certainly, certainly not.
Oh, it's just as Brother Moore used to say, "Like the Irishman's owl, all fuss and feathers and no owl." That's just about the way it goes too on those things.

L-18 Now, just simple trying to hide behind some kind of a church doctrine instead of coming out and saying, "You ain't got no faith." That's all. Satan never received the Holy Ghost; he ain't got nothing then to give you faith. It's God that's got the faith. And just as you're filled with God, you're filled with faith.
If you're the Son of God, you're like God. He just speaks the Word and it creates itself. His Word's the creative power. How'd the world come here? He made it out of things which was not. He just said, "Let there be," and here it is. He believed His own Word.


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