<TITLE>07. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Now, we find out in the day... Jesus never claimed that He was a healer, but let's just notice what He did say about it. And we know that Saint John 14:7, Jesus promised the body of believers would do the same works that He did. And when He left the earth, He left the outline or the shape, the body of Christ should be in. Now...
But as soon as the first round of an apostles ceased, then they went to running little roads out, adding something, taking something away, adding this and taking that. They had broke it up, denominated it. Oh, they done everything to it. It's become... There's hardly enough left till you could tell it's the body of Christ. It's more like a lodge. It's freaked, not because of the will of God, but because of the tradition of man.
And Jesus said, "In vain you worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man." Now, there is a faith that was delivered to the saints, and we're to earnestly contend for this faith. Let's see what the faith was. Jesus introduced it.

L-27 When He first come, He went about doing good. If I told you tonight that the spirit of some person was in me, you'd expect me to impersonate that person, because the very life in me would be that life. If I told you the spirit of some great criminal was in me, why, you would expect me to be a criminal. If I told you the spirit of a painter was in me, you'd expect me to hold the brush right.
When Elijah's spirit come upon Elisha, Elisha was just like Elijah. And when that same spirit come on John the Baptist at nine years old, it even drove him into the wilderness.
The spirit that was in you, controls you. And if the Spirit of Christ is in us, the body of Christ will be Christ-like in it's feelings in it's actions. Whatever it is, it'll be Christ-like. It'll do the works of Christ. God wants to work in the body of Christ as He did in the physical corporal body of the Lord Jesus. He wants to work in this body of Christ, if He can only get them to a place where they'll stand still long enough, that He can place them on the foundation of His Word so He can work. God cannot work contrary to His Word.

L-28 That's where the church needs to come, back to the Bible, back to the faith. Now, let's look at it a minute. When Jesus in His first beginning of His ministry, we find a man by the name of Nathanael who got saved and went and called a fellow named... Or Philip went and called Nathanael, said, "Come, see who we've found. This is Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And he found him under a tree praying. And when he found him, he said, "Come, see."
I tell you when this Hebrew raised up, he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "You come and see." That's the best answer anybody can give. Come, see for yourself. Don't come critical. Come and set down and listen. Watch it, if it's not according to the Word, don't have nothing to do with it. If it is, God's got to work in His Word, 'cause His Word is a Seed. Every promise is a Seed. It'll produce just exactly what God said it would, if it's put in the right ground.


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