<TITLE>09. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 Now, then when Peter asked this question, "Behold, how quick the tree withereth."
Then He said to them, "If thou should say to this mountain, be moved and cast into the sea, and don't doubt; but believe that what you say will come to pass, you'll have what you say."
Now, listen. That's part of the material in this great economy of God, this great ship that we're in, the old ship of Zion, in the Body of Christ.
Now, to the testimony. It has been sometime. I've watched this. And now, listen close now for a little teaching. There's been times in life when all, when I look at the suffering and see those who were afflicted and tormented with demon powers, my heart just bleeds for them. And yet, I've had them to call me on the telephone, and the... In the meetings that clamor and move, and draw, and pull, and it's so hard to say "no" to those people... Frankly, I can't do it; somebody says it for me. I can't get to them. How my heart just bleeds for them.

L-38 Day after day I go through the tortures of that. And I wonder sometimes, and I... Then I console myself by going back to Scriptures, seeing Him going through that place of Bethesda, and seeing all those crippled and afflicted, and went over to one man, and healed him lying on a pallet, and walked away, and left the rest.
But still down in my heart, that makes me... It doesn't take away that burning. Oh, how I wish there was something that could happen.
Then I've notice, yonder in Portland, Oregon, when that maniac that night run to the platform to kill me. I remember there was something happen, and it wasn't in the intellectuals at all. Intellectually I would've run like the rest of the preachers did, but I didn't run; there was something. God was getting ready to display His power. One time He said, "Be still and know that I am God."

L-39 If the Church would only stand still long enough... God will do a little something, and they'll get all excited and run around doing it (See?), get out of the will of God. Be still.
One time He was going to show His power in the Red Sea. He said, "Red Sea, you just stand still." And He marched His children right through it.
What if they'd turned around and said, "Let's do it again, Lord." It wouldn't have happened. Certainly not.

L-40 One time He needed a little time to fight a battle through. God just made the sun stand still yonder to watch what he was going to do. Yeah. "Now sun, you just stand still yonder a few minutes; I'm going to show you something."
Now, what if the next day Joshua say, "Sun stand still." It wouldn't have done it.
God was going to do something. He was going to give a witness to His power. His Word is Almighty, and He's give a witness to it.
One time there was a blind man come out from Jericho. And as Jesus passed through, the blind man screamed, "Have mercy on me."
And the Bible said, "And Jesus stood still." Said, "Bring him here." Oh, my. Christ stood still, for God was going to use Him to show His power.
There might've been a hundred more blind men down the road; I don't know. Perhaps, the priest saying, "Come here a minute, who are you who raise the dead, raise, we got a graveyard full of them? We heard you raised Lazarus." But God was confirming His Messiahship; that's what He was doing. Certainly.


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