<TITLE>02. Par 7-11</TITLE>L-7 Now, friends, as everyone knows this, that I am not a healer. I cannot heal no one, and I--I do not believe, Scripturally, that there's any man can do it. I just don't believe it. The only thing, I pray for the sick, and the Lord's answered prayer for me lots of times. And that just about all I know about it. I just pray, and the Lord answers prayer. And it's... I'm so thankful for what He has done, knowing that I've had sickness myself, and much of it, and to know when the Lord Jesus comes down and heals me, how I appreciate it. And I know it's appreciated by His suffering children when He will answer prayer.

L-8 And that's all we know to do is to pray for the sick, for we cannot heal. To my way of looking at it, that's something that's already been done. Why it's just like your salvation. It was purchased for you at Calvary. E--the whole sins of the world, all sins were forgiven when Jesus made that supreme sacrifice at Calvary, when He died for the sins of the world.
All sins were forgiven. Now, you just have to accept your pardoning. It's your personal faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus' all sufficient sacrifice at Calvary for you. Therefore the Scripture said, "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed." Were, it's a past tense. And if I could forgive someone's sins...
Now, if you sins against me, I can forgive you, but if you sin against God, it's already forgiven you, if you will accept it.

L-9 But now for healing, it's just God's mercy that He... "By His stripes you were healed." Now, first the Word says so. That should be sufficient. But if you don't believe it in the Word, then there's gifts in the church, such as men who are inspired to know how to teach that, that'll make it so plain to you. That's... And faith to believe... Prayer for the sick, just like for the sinner. And then there's other gifts in the church like prophecy and different gifts.
Now, there's five offices of the church: Missionaries or apostles (both the same), prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists. God puts those in the church, and they're all to edify the church.

L-10 Now, I've been preaching every night for about, this is the second week; and last night I give out that tonight we were going to change the position. Now, we give out prayer cards, call the sick up here, went through the line, and the Holy Spirit revealing night after night every case, calling them out of wheelchairs, out of stretchers and cots. Then don't give out any prayer cards, call them right from the audience without prayer cards, telling them all about who they were, even speaking in other languages and telling foreigners who they was and where they come from, all about their conditions... All of this never healed any of them. It was their faith in the Presence of Christ. It's their faith to accept what Christ did.

L-11 Then we tried to lay it down close that we've had all kinds of revivals, but this we find in the Scripture to be the last sign that the church ever receives, according to the Scripture. See?
They've had healing campaigns, and we've had all kinds of great things, but that's always the last sign. Now, in ending up on Saturday night or Friday night of my three night subject on teaching Abraham, you'll find out that sign was given to Sodom and Gomorrah just a few hours before it burned.
It was given to the Jews just before the Gospel turned from the Jews to the Gentiles. It was given to the Samaritans, but never to the Gentiles, and Christ promising that it would be to the Gentiles at the end time with such a penalty on it for one Word against it would never be forgiven in this world nor the world to come. It would be the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.


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