<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 In the Old Testament, many of you scholars here know, that they had a way of finding out whether a prophet told the truth or not, or a dreamer, whether his dream was of God or not. They taken him to the temple and before the Urim Thummim, which was the breastplate that Aaron wore with the twelve stones in it. And then when the prophet prophesied, no matter how real it seemed, if that supernatural Light didn't flicker, a conglomeration of all the stones together flicker a light, then the prophet was wrong. Regardless of how good it seemed, it was wrong, and the dreamer was wrong.
And if it... Though it didn't seem like it was right to the priest, and yet God vindicated it with supernatural, flickering on these Lights, it was received as being from God. Any of you scholars know that. Well then, in the Old Testament... And that priesthood ended; that Urim Thummim ended with that priesthood. But God's got another Urim Thummim for this priesthood, and that is His Bible. And if a preacher preaches, a prophet prophesies, a dreamer interprets a dream, anything contrary to God's Word, it's wrong. But if it's in the Word, it's right. "Whosoever shall take anything away from the Book, or add anything to the Book..." Therefore, I don't want any more than it teaches, but I want all that It teaches.

L-8 So that's the way Divine healing is. It's based, not upon some emotion, not upon shaking, or--or something of that type, not upon anything, but accepting what God promised you, and Jesus died that you may have. No one can properly and clearly preach the Gospel without preaching Divine healing. You just can't do it. For sickness is a attribute of sin. And you can't deal with sickness without dealing with sin, because sickness came as a attribute of sin. Before we had any sickness, we had no sin. But when we got sin, sickness followed it. You have to deal with both together.
May I say it like this: If a big animal had his paw in my side and was tearing out my ribs, the rest of the animal wasn't bothering me, but it was just his paw, and he was tearing my ribs out, now, I do not have to find a knife to cut off his paw: just knock him in the head; that kills the whole animal.
Well, that's the way with sin. When you kill sin, you kill every attribute that follows it. So it may not be that you've sinned, but the weakness of your parents and your parent's parents... Sin is hereditary... I mean, sickness is hereditary in many cases. And through each generation gets weaker and wiser, as the Scripture says. And so therefore, you have to deal with sickness and sin on the same basis of the atonement.

L-9 Now, many people has criticized my meetings, because I don't pray for too many, don't lay hands upon them, or some tangible something. It isn't necessary that I lay my hands on anyone, or it isn't necessary that you lay your hands on me. What's necessary is that you lay your hands on Him. He is the One. For me, I'm your brother; He's your Lord. So, lay hands on Him; by doing this, take a hold of His Word and say, "Lord, I believe it."
Now, many times, Divine healing is more or less, becoming a thing of an intellectual conception of Divine healing. You can never, never be healed by an intellectual conception of Divine healing. You might be worked up in an emotion like Christian Science. But it isn't a thought; it's a Person. Divine healing is something that has to come by a revelation of Jesus Christ's death at Calvary, and by His stripes you were healed. God reveals it to you in your heart, not your head, your heart. And then nothing can ever separate you from that.
To show that it's intellectual, people will pass through one prayer line and the next evangelist comes in town, they'll pass through that prayer line. It's like trying to touch totem poles. That don't heal you. Stand still; look up; listen to the Word, and say, "God, it was for me." That's the way to get it.


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