<TITLE>05. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 If a man... And don't think that just applies to Baptist; that's the Pentecostals, and the Full Gospel also. You accept Him as some sign, or some wonder, or some emotion, or some evidence. The evidence that Christ is in the heart, bears the fruit of the Spirit: faith, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, that's the fruit of the Spirit. But we have confused it with other things: Divine healing gift, speaking with tongues, or oil in the hands, or blood in the face, or some little sensation. We've confused the real Spirit of God with that, and accepted something bogus, instead of the Person Christ, in the heart.
You see what a condition the church, the Full Gospel church has got into? It's the Laodicean age to bring to pass the very Word that our blessed Saviour spoke there in the Bible: lukewarm, dance by the music, shout and clap hands. Oh, them things are all right, but if Christ isn't there, when the hand clapping's over, when the speaking with tongues are over, when the healing service is over, when the music stops, if that deep settled peace, them doors of faith standing wide open to let Him be Lord over the situation, it doesn't do us any good to play the music, or clap our hands, or speak in tongues, or have a healing service. That's right.

L-17 We let Him so far, "But now, Lord, You stay back there, You might have done that to the--to--to Brother So-and-so, or to Sister So-and-so, or to their child, but my case is different." It isn't different; you're the one that's making the difference by keeping Him out of your faith door. You see what I mean? He wants inside there, so He just push open the door and expose all your unbelief, and become Lord of the situation.
The doctor says, "You can't get well." You take his word.
Christ says, "By His stripes you were healed." See, you close the door on Him. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed." The Bible says that. But sometimes you let the doctor push the door in your face.
Not only the doctor won't do it so much, as the pastor will many times. "Oh, those things are fanaticism. If our church would have... If something like that, the Lord had given, it would be in our church." Oh, you and your church. I think it makes the Lord sick at His stomach.
He said, "He would spue them from His mouth." It's time that America woke up. The age of revival is about finished in this land. That is true.

L-18 The Lord Jesus in His... To fulfill His Word, He must keep His Word. I've often wondered, when they would see His Word manifested, what do they do about it? "Oh, well," some says, "It's a telepathy." The other says, "It's some wild imagination." Examine it by the Word. God's Word promised it. And heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall never fail. Open up the door of faith.
Jesus when on the earth, He knew that that Scripture pertained to Him, when He said, "You destroy this body, I'll raise it up in three days."
The prophet had already said, "I will not suffer My Holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell." He knew that Scripture pertained to Him, for He was the Messiah, and He knew it. His unfailing faith put Him in position to know that He was the perfect born Son of God.
If your faith will put you in position to know that every Divine promise of God's Bible is for you. Just as sure as that pertained to Him, every promise pertains to you. You're healing, the salvation, your freedom from sin, and from selfishness, and from your indifference, and your little turtle shell that you pull yourself into... Christ wants to come in and be Lord and Ruler and to set you free from these things. But we won't do it. It's to fulfill the Scriptures that they would be lukewarm, and they are.


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