<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Christ calling His disciples up to the--three of them... He taken Peter, James, and John: faith, hope, and charity. He brought them up to the Mount Transfiguration. A few days before that there'd been a horrible thing happen, or just after it, rather. Jesus had given His church, in Matthew the 10th chapter, power against unclean spirits. He sent them out to cast out devils, to heal the sick, raise the dead. "As freely as you receive, freely give." And we find them right away absolutely defeated on an epilepsy case. They couldn't understand. They had a boy down there, and they was probably screaming and crying and shaking him, and jumping around trying to cast the devil out of him. Jesus came to where they were, and the father of the child run to Him and said, "Lord, have mercy on my son; he's variously vexed with a devil." And said, "I brought him to Your disciples and they couldn't do nothing for him."
He said, "Oh, faithless, generation how long will I suffer you? Bring him here to Me." See, He lived on a different heights. When that demon saw Jesus, he throwed that boy into a spell like he never had before, fell on the ground and frothed and kicked his feet and straightened out. And they said, "He's dead." See? That's the way the devil does.
Jesus picked him up, said, "He's all right. Just take him on."

L-24 Notice. Then the disciples come and said, "Why couldn't we cast him out?"
Now, He never said, "Because you haven't got the power." Now, you unbelievers in Divine healing, I can show you in the Bible, chapter and verse, where God gave His power to the church to remain throughout the age. I want you to show me where He took it back away from the church. It's not in there. You might find it in the almanac, but you don't find it here; this is God's Word. See?
Now, I want you to watch a minute. And this demon... The disciples said, "Why couldn't we cast him out?"
He said, "Not because you don't have power, but because of your unbelief." The church today, the professors, the believers, the borned again, has the power to do these things, but they haven't got faith enough to put it in action. That's right.

L-25 I want you to notice some of our big churches that don't want to believe in Divine healing; it's nothing in the world but juvenile petty jealousy. That's exactly. Look, it was the same thing in the Bible. When those disciples a few days after that, they seen a man getting the job done. He was casting out devils; he was really doing it. And they said, "Will you come join our denomination now? You come over and join our church."
He said, "Now, just go on, boys; I'm working for the Lord." See?
"Well," they said, "Don't you try to cast out any more devils then, if you won't hook up with us." No, sir. "Don't you do that any more." They told Jesus about it. What was it? Jesus said, "Let him alone. No man that can do a miracle in My Name can straightway speak evil of Me. He's that not with us, scatters abroad." See? This man wasn't chose as one of the disciples, but he stood on the sideline and seen the--heard the commission and he said, "That means me too." And away he went and done it. He didn't have to join their association; he was just doing the job. And they were jealous. That's correct.


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