<TITLE>07. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 If He was here tonight, standing in this arena, and you'd come to Him as a sick man, could He heal you? No, sir. He could not heal you, for He has already did that. See? If you are a sinner, could He save you tonight? If you were in the arena and He was here with you, could He save you? No, sir. He's already did that. See? Healing and salvation is a finished work that was finished at Calvary. The price was paid at Calvary. Those powers to forgive sins, or to heal sick people, does not lay in any individual. They are faith in a finished plan, that God laid down from the foundation of the world. So if people says, "I got healing power," you know that's wrong. If you go to a man to confess your sins, that's wrong. You go to God to confess your sins, and you go to God to believe for your healing.
Now, men do have gifts (That's true.): some pastors, teachers, evangelists, and prophets, and so forth. We have five different gifts that God has ordained to the--to the church, the body. And through those gifts, God's worked.

L-19 Now let's see what He did. Let's follow His ministry just a few moments. We find Him, the first thing after John had baptized Him, the Holy Spirit coming from heaven and descending upon Him and remaining in Him. John said, "Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remain... He is the One that will baptize with the Holy Ghost." And now notice. We find immediately after His temptation, He went straight to the Father's business. What was the business? Preaching the Gospel and healing the sick. If any day, any age...
Now, I realize that I'm talking to smart men, and men who are theologians. And I... But I will ask you this, my brother: Did you ever read in history, or in the Bible, or anywhere, where there ever was a revival among the people, except there was miracles and signs? Nowhere. Where God comes, the supernatural comes with God, for He is supernatural. And anywhere...
And I'll ask you one more question; take it from the Scripture, wherever you wish, or from history. Did you ever, in any time, see God take a organization or denomination and send a revival by it? No, sir. The founders, after they were dead, the revival was over. Certainly. God, and men of God who has believed God, has stood alone in convictions with God. It's truly. Never did He have a revival in an organization. I'm not condemning organizations; they're fine. But I'm just trying to say that you can't revive any organization. It takes God to come down and to do that. And God works through individuals, not through groups, but through individuals.

L-20 Now, notice closely now. We find Him at the Father's business. I'm going to give two or three little statements before closing and start praying for the sick. Now, watch this. The first thing we find Him...
Let's turn to the grand old Book of Saint John, just where I have been reading from tonight. In the 1st chapter of Saint John, we find He was choosing His disciples. And we find that there was one chosen by the name of Philip. And Philip, after he got converted, was all enthused. And any man, when he finds Jesus and gets saved, there is a enthusiasm. Oh, I wish I could get that to many great men like Jack Shuler and Billy Graham, and those great evangelists who God's a using. The--the people who profess to come are too starchy; they seem to just say, "Well, yes, I believe." And that is an intellectual conception. But that won't work. You've got to be borned again. And when you're born, there's an enthusiasm rises with that birth, and sets the soul afire, and takes all the differences away, and the isms, and comes straight to Calvary and recognizes Christ, with a burning love and zeal for the lost and fallen world.


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