<TITLE>14. Par 40-41</TITLE>L-40 Now, I can't make it happen. God knows that. I do not control it. I have no control of it at all. It's Him. Right at the same time, He showed a vision like that. I was praying for at least a hundred and fifty or two hundred little crippled children, sick people. But He does what He wants to. He's God. I can't tell Him what to do. Who can interpret God? God does His own interpreting. We just do as He says do.
Now, because that He promised me these things, that's the reason I'm standing here tonight before this little audience. And I stood in Africa with hundred and something thousand, five hundred thousand in India and different places, and took the Koran in one hand, and the Bible in the other hand, and challenged every priest that there was, "Come, let's prove who's God." See? That's it.
Now, friend, He's--He's--He's either raised from the dead tonight, the same yesterday, today, and forever, or the Bible's wrong and we're in our sins. And if He has raised from the dead and proved Himself, that He is the life, then He deserves everything that we got: All of our love, all our devotion, all our time, ever what we are. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Give it to God. Don't you believe so? And then our religion...

L-41 I say this, brethren. I was entertained in Bombay, India, one afternoon, by seventeen different religions, and every one of them denied Jesus Christ. But that night at the meeting before the tens of thousands times thousands, I challenged every one of those religions in Christ's Name, after a vision come on the platform. I said, "Now, find out." And a blind man received his sight standing on the platform. And there's no way of numbering how many.
Durban, South Africa, one day making an altar call there, after a total crippled man on his hands and feet, not even mentally right was made well, I gave a challenge. I seen thirty thousand raw heathens come to Jesus Christ at one time: recorded them, thirty thousand absolute raw heathen.
I stood at a Kiwanis Club not long ago, speaking to Dr. Davis, the one that ordained me in the Baptist church, that said I had become a holy-roller. I said, "Dr. Davis, we spent millions of dollars sending missionaries over there. And what did I find them doing? Passing out tracts. What we need is the Gospel. And what you call 'holy-roller' and what you said, I 'lost my mind,' won more souls to Christ in five-minute's time and without one penny of money, than all the efforts the Baptist church has made, and the rest of them, in a hundred and fifty years." Absolutely.
We missed the mark. Jesus didn't say, "Go into all the world and pass tracts." He said, "Preach the Gospel." Let's demonstrate the power of the resurrection of Christ. Certainly, we have. He never said, "Build churches." I ain't got nothing against it; never said, "Build schools." He said, "Preach the Gospel." That's what we fail to do. Christ is alive. He is not dead. God bless you now.


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