<TITLE>04. Par 19-25</TITLE>L-19 Oh, I want you to look at a beautiful thing here. When Jesus goes to cast out a devil, it's so little to Him till He just takes His finger to cast it away. That's all He has to use. Oh, blessed be His holy Name. He only uses a finger for the most powerful devil that could rise out of the burning hell. One little finger He casts it away. That's all He does. But when He's got a lost sheep gone astray, and when He goes to bring it back, He takes it and lays it over His shoulder. The strongest part of a man is in his back and shoulders. And He takes His most strongest part, not His finger, but a lost sheep, throws it over His shoulders and gently bears it back to the fold. When a devil's only used by a finger...

L-20 He was discussing with them. They had attacked Him. And the world has always attacked the gifts of God. And Jesus was God's greatest Gift. Jesus was God's love Gift to the Church, and the Church is God's love gift to Jesus. God so loved world that He gave. See? "All the Father has given Me will come." See, it's a love affair.

L-21 And always in all ages God has worked through His gifts, gifts of the Spirit. God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son Christ Jesus. Now, noticing, God works in His gifts, and when God sends His gifts, those gifts always stand steadfast. They're always attacked by the devil, but they hold their color because they are from God. And all the attacks that Satan could put upon them will never move one.

L-22 Oh, I'm so happy to know that. I'm so happy to know that I've lived long enough to see that brought to showdown time after time. God's gifts will always hold perfect, sometimes not in the eyes of the world, but in the eyes of His children. It wasn't sent for the world. It was sent for the children.

L-23 A woman touched His garment and got virtue enough from Him to heal her. A Roman soldier put a rag over His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, you vision seer, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you." They felt no virtue.
The mocking clergyman said, "If Thou be the Christ, just pull Your hands loose and come down off the cross. We'll believe you."
The devil said, "Perform a miracle here before me. I'll bring somebody here. Let me see you do something before me, and I'll believe you're the Son of God."
Jesus said, "It is written: man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." He never met the devil in the challenges that the devil challenged Him, but He triumphed over the devil in the--in the working of God in Him. He spoiled and took every legal right that Satan had, at Calvary. Satan is only a bluff.

L-24 Now, God through the ages working through His gifts... We were reading tonight where He was talking to that generation, and He said, "The queen of the south come from the utmost parts of the then known world to see a gift of God that was given to Solomon by God." Said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is here."

L-25 And watch, could you imagine in that great golden age when God was moving in His church, and it was growing, and He sent a gift; and the gift come from God. And quickly it begin to be known. People would pass through the land and would see this great gift of God in operation. See how perfect it was? How that Solomon in his discernment was just as perfect as he could be, not Solomon, but God's gift in Solomon. But it was a gift of God, and as they begin to notice it... There's something about the working of the Holy Spirit that always stirs up a move. It brings the emotional part of the people out.


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