<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 I called him up long distance, and I said, "Sir, I want to ask you something. If a man had pneumonia tonight, and the doctors come and could give him no hope, give him some penicillin. Tomorrow he comes back, and finds out he is well on his road to recovery. In two or three days from now, the man has passed a physical examination that he's perfectly normal, no symptoms at all. He goes out and works for two years. Again takes pneumonia and dies. Was the man healed at the first place?"
I said, "You don't class Divine healing. Where you get your mistake, you tried to put Divine healing on the same basis as salvation. You can't do that, because when you are borned again, you are forever a new creature. You become absolutely borned again a new creature, but when you're healed you're not a new body, but the Holy Spirit living in here, the old covenant providing Divine healing, and we have a better covenant and Divine healing was included or provided for in the Atonement."
So I said, "Of course, Lazarus was raised from the dead and died again, but Divine healing is one of the benefits that we enjoy by being Christians." David said, "Forget not all His benefits, Who forgives all thine iniquity, Who heals all of thy diseases." It's the benefits that we draw from God by being a believer.

L-20 And as Joshua crossing over, he heard the voice of God, that told him to get everything ready in order, and he would cross over Jordan. He was a witness. He wasn't afraid. He sanctified the people, and had them to wash their clothes, and get ready. And the priest stepped into the water and got wet feet, but before they got to the middle of Jordan, it was all dried away. They were witnesses that God would keep His Word. Amen. They stepped in with wet feet and walked twenty yards and had dry feet in the middle of the ocean, or in the middle of the Dead--or Red--or the Jordan. Amen. Oh, that's God. God keeps His promise. Just be a witness. Step in. Don't be afraid. Joshua had never heard of anything like that.
A scientist told me one day (the same man) that there was proven in the solar system that a certain star passed over a certain star, and it caused a great wind to blow back the river.
Said, "Very strange, but I believe that might be true, if it can be scientifically proved, but God moved the stars over." Amen. How He does it that's up to Him, just so He does it. How can He do it? It's not my question to... It's not my business. It's not me to try, or you to try to question. It's accept what He said. You can't prove it. You can't prove God, but there's lots of things that I can't prove. I accept it anyhow, because we see it working, and he's a witness.

L-21 John the Baptist, when he came forth he was a witness. Something was going to take place. He didn't know just where the Messiah was, but he knowed, according to the Scripture, and according to what he had heard. For in the wilderness One told him, "Go baptize." That's what he heard, and what he saw was the Spirit of God coming like a dove, and he bear record, saying, "This is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. For He that sent me to baptize in the wilderness, said, 'Upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining the same shall baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.'"
He was a witness, because he both seen and heard. He was a correct witness of God, and he was in line with the Word. John didn't know just exactly now, when Jesus was going to appear. But listen; John knew that it would be in his day, for He knew that he was a forerunner of the coming of the Son of God. For he said, "There stands One in your midst, Whose shoes I'm not worthy to bear, will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." He was a witness, because he had heard, and then he saw, and it confirmed his testimony.


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