<TITLE>01. Par -</TITLE>59-0812, Discerning The Body Of The Lord, Miami Valley Chautauqua Campgrounds, Chautauqua, OH, 71 min
L-1-1 Thank you, Brother Sullivan. Good evening, friends, it's... Be seated. It's nice to be here again tonight under this roof and among these fine Christian people. And we are expecting God tonight to do the exceedingly abundantly above all that we could do or think. We know that He is real.

L-1-2 How many feel that you got healed last night in the services? Oh, that's just fine. We're looking for the rest of you to be healed tonight, and I--I think we still got out some prayer cards. Billy didn't give any out, he told me, because we didn't have--take up but just a few of those last night. And there might be some of those people who felt that they would like to come into the prayer line, or we might use some of them a little later on in the night for a line of discernment.
It's the... That's what... It isn't the discernment that heals the person; it just sets them in condition to look up and accept their healing that Jesus has already did for them. See, the laying on of hands is a very good thing, because it's--it's Scriptural, but it isn't a Gentile way of getting healed.

L-1-4 In the--in the Bible there was a Jew that had--his daughter was very sick unto death, and she died. And he said to Jesus, "My daughter is laying--is nigh unto death, but come and lay Your hands on her, and she'll get well."
But when the Roman, the centurion, the Gentile, when his servant was sick, he said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof; just speak the Word." That's what turned the heart of Jesus. Didn't have to lay hands on him. He just wanted to hear the Word.

L-1-6 You see, I like that story, because that Roman recognized that He was a man with an authority. And if he said to a man, "Do this or do that," he did it, and he recognized that same 'thority--authority in the Lord Jesus. For he--he knew that if He said to a man that was under Him, "You go," or "You come," he had to obey Him. And he knew that all sicknesses and diseases was under the control of the Lord Jesus; therefore, He didn't have to come lay hands on the servant; "Just speak the Word and my servant will live."
And Jesus marveled, and He said, "I've not found faith like that in Israel." So I would sure hope that I live to see the day when we Americans will have that kind of faith. "Just speak the Word, Lord, and my servant will live." Oh, it'll be a great day.

L-2-2 Now, we are... Sometimes when the anointing is very heavy, if sometimes I don't get a chance to make the altar call, some of the other brethren, Brother Sullivan or some of my noble brethren here will take care of that. Someone might say that we were just featuring Divine healing. Divine healing is just like going fishing. You never show the fish the hook; you just show him the bait, and he grabs the bait and gets the hook. So that's the way it is with Divine healing. It's attractive, because it--it demonstrates and proves that there is a God that lives and is interested in you. And the unbelievers see that. Quickly his eye catches it and knows there is a living God, and then he's on the line of salvation then. God can go to controlling him then and winding him in. So that's what Divine healing is for, merely for that sake.


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