<TITLE>16. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 Here's a woman, walk this way, sister, just as you will. As far as I know I have never seen the woman. I don't know her. She's just a woman, walked up here. She may be a member of this church. She may be a member of the Tabernacle for all know. I don't know. Just a woman... If I've ever seen her before today, I don't know, I don't know. But God does know the woman. Well now, if Jesus is the same yesterday and forever, then she's here for some cause. I don't know what it is. What if this was just like the--the woman at the well? Don't have to be the same kind of case but it could be just a man and a woman meeting the same way. Maybe the woman's a critic; maybe she's a Christian. Maybe she's up here just suspicious to try to find out something. Maybe she's up here 'cause she's sick. Maybe she's up here standing for somebody else. I don't know; that's true; I can't tell you. But God does know.

L-58 Then if say... Let's say she is sick, 'cause it's a healing service. Perhaps she is, might not be. But if she is sick, and she's standing here to be prayed for, God knows I don't know nothing about her. Well then, if I don't know the woman, know nothing about her, and then she's seeking Jesus for healing, I'd tell her this, "That by His stripes you were healed."
Now, healing is just like salvation. You don't get salvation tonight. When Jesus died He paid for your sin; you just accept it. See, when He died, He took away the sins of the world. When He died, He healed every sick person. The complete debt was paid.

L-59 Now, what if Jesus was here tonight in a form of a man, like He was when He walked in Galilee. What if He had on this suit and was standing here and she was standing that close to our Lord? What a--what a... I'd sure love to stand like that to Him. What if she was standing there and He was standing here, and He'd say to her, "Woman, believest thou that I am He? If thou believest not thou shall perish."
She'd say, "Yea, Lord, I believe that You're He."
"Well, what do you seek?"
"I seek healing, Lord."
"My child, can you not believe that I did that when I died back yonder when I said it was finished? Was not the Scripture written that said that I was wounded for your transgressions; with My stripes you were healed"? That's it.
Well now, she'd wonder, "Wonder if that is the Lord, that He... Anyone could say that. Any man could preach that because it's in the Bible. But if that's really Him, He'd know my heart because He knowed the heart of the woman at the well. And He promised that same thing."

L-60 Now, He never said He'd come back in a body form and do it, but He would send the Holy Ghost that would dwell in us, that that Holy Ghost would Divine the secrets of the hearts. For He'll show you things to come, reveal the secrets of the hearts. Is that true? He promised it. Then if He's the same and I...
I say this, that I believe that this great Spirit that's among us is the Holy Spirit. I believe that He called me for this purpose. Doesn't make me any more than the man that got saved this morning, just your servant, your brother. Makes me less than you, because I'm sent to serve you. I am a servant to the public. A public servant is a minister, to serve the public. To be the underdog, to take this knocks and drives of the public, whatever it is, stand there. And if you haven't got grace enough to smile and take it, then you ought to go back to Calvary and reconfirm your commission. That's what you're supposed to do.


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