<TITLE>16. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 Now, we're going to pray for the sick. Now, everyone that raised your hands, at the end of the service, tomorrow I'm going to give another kind of a service, the Lord willing. Now, tonight I want you to promise God... Yes, sure. If you made your decision for Christ, Christ accepted it. Oh, certainly He did, but tomorrow, or tonight, rather, when the service is over, I want to go right into praying for the sick, 'cause I know you've got Sunday school service in the morning. I don't want to keep you too long, but I want to ask you something. Will you come up around here at the altar call when the brethren make it? Come up here and just thank God; say, "God, I thank You." You don't realize what a great thing it is. You don't know what you've done. You don't know who you are, and as long as the devil can make you believe that, "Oh, that was just... Oh, well..." Oh, as long as you believe that, then your hand raising was no good. But if you believe that you accepted Christ and in your heart you feel that you've--you've got Eternal Life, God will honor that. Stay with it, and God will make it real to you. Certainly.

L-60 Now, we're going to call for the sick to come to be prayed for. How many's never been in my meeting before? Let's see your hands. Just look. My, if everybody that comes each night would come back, we wouldn't have no room around here for them. See? It's almost a new thing each night.
When I had a manager, he stood up and explained it. I hate to explain it to tell you those things each night. See? Because it sounds like that I'm saying it myself. It's best for somebody else to tell it. But I want you to know this, my brethren, that Christ lives tonight, and He's just the same as He was then. Hebrews 13:8 declares that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He... And if He is the same, He's got to do the same works. And if He will come here tonight...

L-61 Now, remember. I make this statement clear that I am not a healer and have nothing to do with it. No other man is a healer. Only God alone is a Healer. How many knows that? How many knows that there's nothing in my hand, or any other man's hand, that can have anything to do with your healing? How many knows that? Not a thing. How many knows that healing is a finished work that God has already done? That's right. By faith we accept it.
How many knows that no one could forgive your sins but God alone? That's true. No matter how much you'd confess them to a priest, or a preacher, to whatever it might be, papa, mama, that'll never do no good until you confess them to God, and believe that Christ forgives you, and accept Him as your personal Saviour. You could scream, cry, jump up-and-down, beat the altar, run through the floor, till you got old and gray headed. You'd never be forgiven until you solemnly accept Christ's offer. You got to come on His terms.

L-62 That's the same way it is by Divine healing. We've got to come on His terms by faith. First it's by the Word: "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word." Then the spiritual gift that's set in the Church to manifest the Presence of Christ. If they're a true gift they will manifest the Presence of Christ. And then that makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, D? Where we been calling? 1 and 50 and 100 and 85, somewhere? Let's call somewhere different tonight. Let's call from say 35. Who has prayer card D-35? Would you raise up your hand? We'll just get a few up here. You don't have to... Look around at your card now. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Two people, perhaps, together. And when they went out and they couldn't give out prayer cards. There's no way of doing it. They couldn't speak them languages. So I just had a missionary go get two or three out of this tribe, and two or three out of that tribe, and bring them up. And the first was a Mohammedan woman. And It begin to speak and to tell her of what had happened. I asked her if she'd ever read the New Testament.
"Yes."


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