<TITLE>13. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 And Peter rebuked Him, said, "All's a touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... said has went out of Me." Virtue's strength, power had left Him. Said, "I've got weak." And He looked around until He found the woman, and He told her her condition, and said, "Your faith has saved you."
That same Jesus lives today. And the Bible says in the New Testament, the Book of Hebrews, that He now is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Do you all believe that? How is it then? Touch Him, not touch the pastor, not touch the evangelist; but touch Christ.
And He has got to act the same that He did then. If He doesn't, then we're serving another Christ who is similar to the One that was. The Bible said, "He is the same Jesus, the same power." So it isn't the virtue of some man's hands. It's the virtue of your own faith in the resurrected Christ.
My brethren, I have nothing wrong with laying on hands, anointing the sick, anything you want to do. But the real thing is--is to believe Him that He's raised from the dead, and He's present to manifest Hisself and every power that He ever did. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If God will do that and manifest Himself in the same way He did then, how many will believe Him? Say "Amen." [Congregations says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-54 The Scripture then says this. Jesus going away, He said, "A little while and the world (world 'kosmos,' which means 'world order') will see Me no more. The unbeliever will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me." Ye, who's ye? The Church. "For I ('I,' is a personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The church of the Lord Jesus It's broke up in denominations. It's broke up in creeds, sectarian, until God can't move in His church. Your denomination don't make you a Christian. Nothing against your denomination, nothing against your creed, but to know Christ is to know the Person of Christ.

L-55 The Bible said; Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit, the branch bears fruit. And the branch will bear the fruit of the vine it's connected with. And I ask any scholar of the Scriptures to show me where Christ ever organized a church or made an organia--organization, where He ever said a certain bunch of creeds would do it. He said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot even understand the Kingdom of God."
If it's a pumpkin vine, it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon vine, it'll bear watermelons. If it's a grapevine, it'll bear grapes. If we are the branches of His Church, we'll bear the fruits of the Lord Jesus. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also." The same kind, not a different, "The same works that I do." God help us. Forgive us of our unbelief while we pray.
Heavenly Father, the next belongs to You. We are just men and women who love You. And, oh, this is a crucial moment. A man can say anything, but if You're not there to back it up, then the man's word's wrong. But Thou hast give a promise, and Thy promise is true.


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