<TITLE>16. Par 57-61</TITLE>L-57 Oh, I love Him. Isn't He wonderful. How clean you feel. The Word, the washing of the water by the Word, the water of separation. And we're washed by the water of the Word. It separates us from the things of the world to a consecrated life with Jesus. Oh, it's supposed all in Pentecost. I've been so long. But, friends, I feel that this is more profitable than anything. Salvation...?...
Did you give out prayer cards? I can't believe I'm going to use them. I just feel constrained not to. Jesus is here. And we don't need prayer cards. Prayer cards is only to keep people in line. But I believe that we have did that which was right in His sight. And I believe that the Bible teaches that He's a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Does the Bible say that?
And if He was here tonight and you would ask if He'd heal you, He would merely say to you and point you to His Word; He has already redeemed you from sin and sickness. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with his stripes we were healed. It's a finished work He would point you to.

L-58 But if the Bible says that He would be touched by the feeling of our infirmities... There was a woman once who had an infirmity and touched His garment. And she went off into the audience. And Jesus said that He got weak. The immortal Christ said He got weak. Wonder why He got weak. Strength went away from Him. It's hard to understand. It cannot be explained.
Did you ever know that poets and prophets are considered neurotic? Did you ever think... Look at William Cowper gave America its best folk songs. He was misunderstood. Every time he would go into inspiration and write a song, he'd get on a drunk. Finally after he came out from under inspiration one time, he didn't know where he was at like, and he left the inspiration. He called his servant, and took a razor, and committed suicide. I stood by the side... That was Stephen Foster, I beg your pardon.

L-59 And William Cowper I did stand by his grave in London, England not long ago. And there William Cowper give the world a great song. He wrote that famous song:
 There is a fountain filled with blood
 Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
 When sinners plunge beneath the flood,
 Lose all their guilty stain.
And when he come out... Did you ever read the history of that? When he come out from under that inspiration. he was carried away so when he penned that song, till he got in a cab and tried to find a river to commit suicide. Considered a neurotic...

L-60 Jonah, after having that inspiration on him to preach to a city the size of St. Louis, and they repented till they put sackcloth on their animals, then when the Spirit left him he prayed for God to take his life.
Elijah stood under an inspiration, called fire out of heaven and called rain on the same day. And then when the inspiration left him, he was wondering in the wilderness for forty-eight nights. And God found him pulled back in a little cave.
The Angel on the pool of the water, the first man stepping in with faith, challenged that Angel. The whole virtue of the Angel left the water, and they had to wait for another season.

L-61 A little woman touched the garment of the Lord Jesus and Emmanuel, the Fullness of God in Him, and He turned and said, "Who touched me? For I've gotten weak." Then you wonder.
Now, He is a High priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. Now, since He's been glorified, and yet our infirmities has been paid for, how would we know whether we touched Him? He has to be the same to go out into the audience and find the faith. Is that right? We've had it.
I believe tonight if you will be reverent, real reverent, and will ask God, and we'll just pray and let the Holy Spirit move into the audience so these young Christians that's just accepted Christ can see that the Christ that they accepted is not a mythical or a bunch of creeds. It's a living God.


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