<TITLE>03. Par 6-8</TITLE>L-6 A little story that always struck me so outstanding was a little boy that I knew of in Louisville, Kentucky. One day he was up in the old garret searching around in some old relics. And there he found in a trunk, a little postage stamp just about one half inch square. It had turned yellow; the paper was no good. But the little fellow thought, "You know, I might get a nickel out of that to get an ice cream cone." So down the street he went to a stamp collector, and he said, "Sir, how much will you give me for this stamp?"
The collector put the glass on it; he said, "I'll give you a dollar bill." Quickly the trade was made. And the little fellow rushing to the ice cream stand to get all the ice cream that he could hold... And the collect--stamp collector sold that stamp two weeks later for five hundred dollars. A little later it was sold for five thousand dollars. The last I heard of the stamp, it's worth a quarter of a million dollars. It wasn't the paper; it wasn't the size; it's what's on the paper that counts.
And it isn't the size of the text that I have read, neither is it the paper that it's wrote on. It's what it is that I have read. It's the Word of the eternal God. Heavens and earth will be no more, but that Word will remain through all ages and through eternity. It can never change; God's Word. And let's approach it just as reverently as we know how.

L-7 Jesus saying, "Have faith in God," the book of Hebrews the 11th chapter said that faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. Now, remember, it's just not a intellectual conception of something; it is a substance. It's something that you possess.
Come here just a minute, sir. How many's ever heard the old saying, "Seeing is believing." I want to show you how foolish that is. There's five senses that control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. We know that's right. Now, everybody puts so much confidence on what they see, but that isn't just exactly right. I'm looking at a man standing before me; he's taller than I, and he's quite a lot bit larger than I am. He's got rather a dark suit on with little--little flowers like in his tie. How many believes that's the truth? Because you see it. Step behind me. I want your hand. Now, I do not see that man. But yet I know he's there. Would you like to argue with me? How do I know; it's impossible for me to see him. But I have another sense; that sense is feeling. I feel him now; I can't see him. It's the same man because he had a round wrist watch on his left arm when he come up here. So it is the same man. My sense of feeling declares him just as much as my sight would. Then seeing is not believing. Feeling is believing now. Now, step back just a moment. Now, I cannot feel him now, but seeing is believing. Now, feeling is believing. You see the difference? Thank you, sir.

L-8 Start--play a chord, some familiar something. How many believes that music's a playing? Put up your hand. Now, put your hand down. Thank you. How many seen it? I thought seeing was believing. This time I do not see it; neither do I feel it; but yet I have a sense of hearing. Hearing says so.
Now, that shirt is white. And everyone here that's not colorblind knows it's white. Faith is what? "The substance of things hoped for," the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. It's another sense, that's called faith. The senses of the body declares two senses. The soul declare--I mean five. The soul declares two: faith and unbelief. Now, if your faith says tonight that you're going to be healed, and you know it, and your faith declares it just the same as your sight says that that's white, it's finished. You've got it. You see what I mean? "It is the evidence of things not seen." People who have faith are not afraid. It's said that cowards die ten thousands deaths when a hero never dies, somebody who's got faith and believes.


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