<TITLE>09. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 Now, when He did that on His journey here on earth, He did it in one city, they believed Him; they were healed, thousands. Goes to another city, does it, they believe. Goes to His own city, His own home, and when He started to do it, they said, "Who is this man? Where did he get this wisdom? How does he know how to perform these things? We know him." And the Bible said that "Many mighty works he could not do because of their unbelief. Many mighty works He could not do.
Now, I pray if there's a sinner here tonight, that when you see, if He will do it... This is my hometown. And this is the hardest place I have ever battled in my life. I've been with the Hottentots in Africa. I've been in India with the hoodooisms and everything else, and challenged by their witch doctors and so forth; and I've never had to struggle to get the Spirit of God to work like I have in my own hometown. It's exactly right. Not because people don't love me, because the Bible is true. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that a prophet within his own country (is on his own county) is not without honor, except it's in that place." It has to be that way. Now, let us bow our heads just a moment while we pray.

L-31 O blessed Lord, Who made the heavens and earth, created them with Thy own blessed hand, I pray Thee, Lord, to be kind and merciful to us tonight, pardoning our sins and our transgressions. I pray Thee to be kind to those who are sick and needy. Grant it, Lord.
And if there be sin in our midst, O eternal God, forgive it. For just in the next few moments Your Word is either found right or It's found wrong. It's either found to be true, or It is an error. God is still God, or the Scriptures is wrong. And, Lord, preaching this, believing it, holding it to the showdown, Lord, to where that there must be something take place... There must be either... God must prove Hisself real or the people has a right to say, "I first have to see it."
But, Lord, the people borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, as we all are, come to the world speaking lies... Then we know, Lord, that the merciful God will surely have mercy upon us, and will help us, dear God. We pray tonight for each individual here, that Your Spirit will rest upon them, forgiving our sins and our wicked ways. And may we acknowledge the Lord Jesus as our blessed Saviour just now. And may His Spirit be kind.

L-32 Now, Father, it is written in the Word, by the lips of our own blessed Lord and Saviour, Your Son, that has been said this way, "The things that I do, shall you also. He that believeth on Me shall do the works that I do. A little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, and in you, to the end of the age." You made a promise that the unbelieving children of Adam would never be able to see You no more after You left the earth, but that the believer would see You in power and demonstration in every generation. We believe that, Lord.
And we believe that we're living in the last days of the Gentile dispensation, that is soon to close, and You've raised up these mighty works that the Gentiles might not have an excuse. You've had Your picture taken with us as the great Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. And how... What a phenomenon it is. And to see You. If it would just be the picture alone, it--we could say, "Well, it might've been such and such, even though the scientific world said it was true." But when we see the Spirit come down and manifest and do the same things that He did, then we're bound to recognize it to be the risen Lord.


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