<TITLE>05. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 He can do nothing till first you confess that He's did it, and accept it as your own personal property. You can't get saved by beating on the altar, or can't get saved by paying your tithe, or keeping some days, or abs--abstain from meats. You don't get saved by that. It's by faith are you saved, and that through the grace of God. You have to accept it first, and believe it as your own personal property, then you are saved. Same way by healing.
So tonight, let us look away from our symptoms, and remember that God still lives, and His promise is still true. And Jesus sets at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven to make intercessions as a High Priest, on anything that you confess that He's done for you, that was in the redemptive blessing. If that isn't simple, here a little baby boy or girl could understand. He sets as the High Priest to make intercessions upon anything that's right, that you ask Him.

L-21 And He said in Mark 11:24, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them." Whatever it is, pray and believe that you receive it now (present tense), and it shall be given to you. You can have it, if you'll believe it when you ask for it, because quickly before the Father, He goes to work to make intercession upon your confession. That settles it. That's the reason the people are being healed just setting around in the meeting. It doesn't take a special evangelist to come through; it just takes your faith in the all sufficient Christ, and the omnipresent Christ, Who is everywhere, anywhere, that you'll call upon Him, He's there to meet the conditions, a very present help in the time of trouble.

L-22 Then Jesus referred to the day of Solomon. And God through the ages, when He gives gifts unto His people, if that gift is turned down, that nation becomes ruined, that generation perishes. But if it's been... If it is--is accepted, then that is the--the great life time for the people. And He was referring to the gift of God that came in the days of Solomon.
Now, God gave Solomon a gift, and we all know (you who read the Bible) that that was Israel's golden age, of Solomon. And as soon as they seen that gift working in Solomon, seeing that great power of discernment, the people all rallied around him. And no matter what he said, they did it, because they believed him, and they believed him to be God's servant, and God has to honor that. And no matter what God does, if you don't come with respect to His gift, you'll never receive nothing from it.

L-23 What if Martha and Mary... I believe it was Martha, when she run out to meet Jesus, it seemingly, she had a right to upbraid Him. He had left her, and her brother had died. And yet not come to her call, He just ignored it and went on. But when she went to see Him, seemingly, she could've said, "Why did You not come, when I called You?" If she'd said that, she'd have never got what she asked for. But she went with respect, and she said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." That's the way it must come. It must come, because that it's your respect. She was respecting it. She'd knowed that the Shunammite woman went to Elijah and got what she desired. And she knowed if God was in the prophet Elijah, surely, He was in His Son Jesus.


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