<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, notice again, in a few moments. They had a woman that had a blood issue. She'd cried and tried everything to do--to get well; she couldn't do it. She pressed through the crowd and she touched the border of His garment, for she believed. Now, what? "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." She pressed through because faith comes by hearing. She touched His garment. And she said, "That satisfies me. I've touched him." And she goes back into the crowd believing in her heart that something would take place.
Oh, if people today could only get that. Believing. And when it taken place, Jesus turned and said, "Who has touched Me?"
And Peter said, "All of them are touching You. Why do You say, 'Who touched Me?'"
He said, "But I got weak. I'm so weak, virtue, strength has gone from me. I am weak." And he said, "Well, how did you know that?" And He looked around over the crowd. She thought she was hid; she was back out there hid in the crowd. And when Jesus turned and looked at her, He told her what her trouble was and that she had been healed. And then it was that she could fall down at His feet and confess all things. After she had had an experience of His great magnificent power to reveal to her that she had touched the garment, not only of Him, but of Him that liveth forever, Almighty God. Certainly it was.

L-24 Now, it was the people on the day of Pentecost that was cowardly, and they were in an upper room; the doors were all closed; they were afraid of the Jews. But when God came in the form of the Holy Ghost and baptized every one of that group with the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire; it was then they could go into the street. And that man who cursed in the presence of Jesus a few days before, could say, "You men of Judaea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you, and hearken to my words: these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it's the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel." Certainly, after he'd had an experience. Before he had the experience he had faith to believe it, but after the experience come, experience brought the results. Certainly it did.

L-25 Now, those people that Jesus has spoke to there about the tree. Now, notice just a moment now as we close. As He was coming to the--out of the temple one day, He run down to a tree to find out if He could find something to eat on this tree. There was nothing there, because the time of figs wasn't yet. And He could find nothing. So He said to the tree, "No man eateth from thee from henceforth, no one eateth."
And the next day... They never seen any difference in the tree right then; it didn't show any results, any physical results. Now, here's where I want you to get it. It showed no results. But what did He say, "No man eateth from thee."
And in twenty-four hours, about noon the next day, they passed by the same tree. And in there they noticed that the tree had begin to wither. And Peter said, "Behold, the tree which Thou did curse, it's already withering from the roots."


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