<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 And my dear, beloved sister, if there was one thing that I could do to help you to get well or--or whatever your trouble is... You might not even be sick. I don't know. I've never met you. If there was anything I could do to help you... If it's finances, I might let you have very little money, because I haven't got but a little. If it was domestic trouble, I would try to talk to your loved one. I--I'd do anything that I could.
But now, as healing... If it's healing, it's already done, if you're seeking healing from Christ. It wouldn't lay within me to do that or no one else. It would lay within God.
And God has already did it according to His Word. Then, the only thing that we can do, as ministers, some of the men who is sufficient to do it, explain it through the Scripture. That's the initial way. That would settle it, if it would be me or be you. But God's so good. He moves every little stone so that everybody... He loves people, and He's trying to do something else to bring them to--to believe Him and have faith in Him.

L-18 Now, if the Lord God would reveal to me what you're standing here for, just like He did at the well at the Samaritan woman... He found her trouble. And as soon as He told her where her trouble was, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things, show these things to us."
And he--she believed Him to be a prophet, but Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks with you."
And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" If that was the sign of the Messiah then, it's the sign of the Messiah now if He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.
He did the same thing when He declared it to the Jewish race of people by bringing... Philip went and found Nathanael thirty miles around the mountain and brought him back. And Jesus told him that He knew where he was at, what he had did.
What'd the Pharisees think of that? They said it was the devil. And Jesus said, "I forgive you, but when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, a word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come."

L-19 Now, you see where we stand. Right now, the Gospel has got to be proven right or wrong. If Christ made a promise like that, He's obligated to His Word.
And what a consolation it is to know that the religion that we serve, God is the only religion in the whole world that can prove that their God is alive. I've had the privilege stand before twenty and thirty different religious people,  different religious people that believes in different gods, Mohammedans and Buddha, and Sikh, and Jain, and oh, all different kinds, and blanket natives and with idols in their hands. But never is there anyone... Man's made big statements, but there's only one Man who said, "I have power to lay down My life and take it up again." And He did it. And nineteen hundred years, blessed be His Name, He still lives. He isn't dead.
As you see, not in some dark corner off somewhere. Here under the lights, me and this woman meeting the first time, I claim that Christ is alive tonight.


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