<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 And I want you to just hold to every word, so that you'll be able to understand. I wonder if you can hear me all the way in the back of the back well if you can. That's fine. That's good. That we might get a grip on God's Word, because it's essential that we do this.
Now, to introduce the ministry, the first I want to make it real clear that I'm not a healer. I do not believe there is a healer outside of God. I just had some wonderful answers to prayer. I pray for the sick. I believe that healing was included in the atonement. If the old atonement had healing, and this is a--a better, so it would have to be better in every way. It would have to have also a healing.

L-10 Now, I believe that all these things that we're enjoying are of Christ, was finished for us at Calvary, that that told the story there that "He was wounded for our transgressions, and He was bruised for our iniquity, and the chastisement of our peace is upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed." All something in the past, something that God has already done, and it's just our personal faith in a finished work that we get the benefits of His vicarious suffering and death at Calvary. See, it's something that God has already done. And it's just the people on the platform are no more privileged than the one all the way at the back of the building. It's just when your faith believes it and can lay a hold of it.
And now, Divine healing is not the purpose of our--us being here. As I'll--will quote Brother Bosworth, he said Divine healing is like bait that goes on a hook. You don't show the fish the hook; you just show him the bait. So he grabs the bait and gets the hook. That's the way it is by Divine healing. When a man is laying at the cor--point of death, and then he takes a hold of God for healing, he gets a--God gets the hooks in his mouth. Then he sees that God loves him.

L-11 As a shepherd... The story of the shepherd was told once, that the shepherd had a sheep that had a broken leg, and he said, "What caused that sheep's leg to be broke?"
He said, "I did it."
Said, "Well, you must be a cruel shepherd."
Said, "No, I did it so I could show it special care, so it would follow me."
And sometimes God has to let us lay on our backs to look up to let it--to let us know that He's still God. Sometimes think... Scriptures clearly said, "All things work together for good to them that love God." And we know the Scriptures is true.

L-12 Now, as a preacher, I'm--I'm a spare tire. I--I say it with all this around me here. My good friend Booth-Clibborn, and many of the brethren on the platform tonight, is who I know are real theologians, and I'm just a Kentucky plow-boy, so I'm... I... Now, you excuse my "hit, hain't, tote, fetch, carry," and all my language. Just remember, I may not know the Book too well, but I know the Author real well. And that--that's what I'm relying on, is--is the Author. So my mistakes, you know, He just overlooks it.
Now we want to take the subject tonight, first to read a portion of the Scripture found in Saint John, the 12th chapter, 30th--or the 20th verse rather, 21st.
 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to the--worship at the feast:
 The same therefore came unto Philip which was of Bethesda of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
Hebrews 13:8 said:
 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to day, and forever.


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