<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 But Christ died for the whole body. See? It's not just the unity amongst one organization; it's the unity amongst the entire body of Christ. And those old worms has just... Every time that the--this little tree that's been cut down, and it's laying there just as a stump--and every time some life starts up, the first thing you know, we build a little organization around it, and the worms get in it and eat it down. I said, "One of these days, God's going to bring down some insect powder, and He's going to spray these worms; they'll quit eating from that time on."
When a man can be so isolated from those things by the love of God and the Holy Ghost, it'll never touch him. We have people who's found that place. I've known men that wouldn't make any difference what organization you belonged to or what you believed, you're a brother anyhow. They wouldn't draw any lines. That's... If it can work on one or two, it can work on the rest of us. That's right. We can all be the same.

L-6 You know, I was thinking over in Job, the 14th chapter, it said there's hope in a tree if it dies. And it's... Even the stalk grows old, the roots of the ground, through the scent of rain, water, it will bring forth boughs again.
Now, that Gospel stump, that's in the ground, the Pentecostal blessing, only thing it needs is some Pentecostal water. And Pentecostal water is the Word, for we are washed by the water by the Word. And just some good old fashion Holy Ghost gospel teaching will certainly put that thing right back in it's place and bring it out again. That's right.

L-7 Now, I told Brother Moore, this afternoon, if I preach longer tonight than twenty or thirty minutes, for him to stick me in the back. And so, I just...
When I come to talk I'm a long ways from being a preacher or theologian. But what I know about Jesus, I love to tell others. And I just put everything that there is in me in it, because it's my Lord's Word.
And if I was doing a job for you out here busting concrete, I'd do the best job I could do. How much more, doing for the Lord? I want to do my best when I walk to this platform, do everything that lays within me to win souls to Christ, 'cause I know and you know we haven't got too much longer to do this.

L-8 Now, being that we're going to have the type of meeting that we will tonight, I'd like to encourage faith. People passing through the line like that, they must have faith. So I want to read just a verse out of--the 14th verse of the 22nd chapter of Genesis:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said, to this day in the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

L-9 God, in the Old Testament, had seven compound redemptive Names. And when this picture was taken, that you see out there of the Pillar of Fire, as I regard it that way... And the night that it was taken is when Brother Bosworth asked a Baptist preacher in a debate, in Houston, Texas, this question: He said, "If you will answer me this one question, yes or no, I'll walk off the platform." He said, "Was the redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus? yes or no?" That settled it.
If the redemptive Names of Jehovah was not applied to Jesus, He was not Jehovah-jireh or Jehovah-rapha. The Lord's... or Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord's provided sacrifice"... And if He was Jehovah- jireh, He's Jehovah-rapha, also, "the Lord that heals all our diseases"; they're inseparable. Just like you can't separate them.
You can't separate God from His nature and His motives. And if He is Jehovah-jireh tonight, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice," if He wasn't that, then He wasn't the Lord's sacrifice and He wasn't the Saviour. And if He is Jehovah-jireh, He's also Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth all thy diseases." That settles it. So there's no way of answering it; just say it's yes or no. To deny it, is to deny Christ being the Saviour. To accept it is to accept Him as your Healer. So there's no way out of it. And I'm so glad of that.


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