<TITLE>15. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 Then he went off on his big words again. I said, "Just a moment." I took this Scripture that I just used, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, you shall have them." I said, "Did that include Divine healing, whatsoever?"
He said, "Well, whatsoever..." I said... He said, "That wasn't Divine healing."
I said, "But Jesus said, 'Whatsoever things.' You said, 'Excluding this,' but Jesus said, 'Whatsoever.' Now, who's right, you or him? He said, 'Let every man's word be a lie and Mine true.' Who's right?" I said, "Will you admit, sir, it was in the Word." He hung hisself there. He said, "It was in the Word but not the atonement." Oh, oh. Then he said something wrong. You know the old saying, "Give the cow enough rope it'll hang itself." It will. That's a Texas expression, but it's true. I said, "Stay with that."

L-46 I said, "One time there was a king who was a just man, honest; he kept his word. He was a honest man. He made his rules of his kingdom." And I said, "One day there was a slave committed a crime. He was brought before the justice of the king, and the king read his penalties; there was no atonement for it. The man had to die. So he said, 'Sir, we have no pardoning for this sin; you must die. I must have your head chopped off on this block of execution.' And he started trembling. He said, 'Wait a minute; straighten up.' He said, 'What can I do for you before I chop your head off, or have it done.' He said, 'Give me a glass of water.' And he couldn't hold it. He was going to have his head cut off; he just couldn't hold it. And the king said, 'Wait a minute; straighten up. I'm not going to cut your head off till you drink the water.' The slave threw it on the ground.
I said, "He's a just man; he keeps his word; his atonement says, 'The man has to die,' and his--his word he can't keep."
"Oh," he said, "That was a slip up on the king."
I said, "Then God made a slip up to put it in His Word without allowing it in the atonement. Go way, brother." I said, "Your argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death. You know better than that." Yes sir, that was it. God's got every redemptive blessing in the atonement when Jesus died. "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed." It's for you to look and live. It's you; it's nothing I can do.

L-47 A preacher, if he come here preaching Divine healing by laying on hands, he'd have to preach that to you out of the Word. His hands laying on wouldn't be no more than baptism or anything else. You have to have faith. If you haven't got faith, you just go down a dry sinner and come up a wet one. You're still a sinner if your heart hasn't been changed. The baptism means nothing, just an outward expression that an inward work of grace has been done. And no matter how many times preachers lay their hands on you, how much they do this, it doesn't mean a thing till you really believe it.
And then, Jesus when He was on earth, He just performed a little sign to show the people that He was the Messiah. And they believed it. And He promised He was the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He remains that way. And we're ending this age now, the Gentile age. Jesus is come in the form of the Holy Ghost to take out the people, the remnant of the people, the Gentile, for His Name, before the sputniks goes to bursting. This week, hope to get on to it.
All right, let us ask another word of prayer, while you with the prayer cards make yourself ready. We'll call the prayer cards. Last--night before we used them. Last night we did not. Tonight we'll call the prayer cards. Where's Billy? Ask him where them cards are, what he give out and how many? X 1 to 100.


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