<TITLE>14. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 Faith cometh by hearing. Then God has set in the church apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, and pastors, all for the perfection of the saints. Now, if He can get a hold of your heart, then He can work His works. But as long as you can get yourself out of the way, as long as you can relax yourself, and let the Holy Spirit take over... He said, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." And the--the branch doesn't--the vine doesn't bear fruit, but it energizes the branch to bear fruit.
Now, what kind of a fruit would it bear? The kind of life that was in the vine. Well, that's the same thing the church does. Today, if you want to get--if you want to get grapes, you go to a grape vineyard. If you want to get pumpkins, you go to a pumpkin vine. But the thing today, people comes to churches and find a dry, cut theology, no Spirit at all. What we need today, is a revival of the Spirit of God among us to bring us back the true and living God.

L-44 Now, if you will do like that woman did... (Now, as far as I know, there's not a person in this audience that I know, except it would be Pat Tyler, setting right there, and Brother Gene setting right here. That's the only people that I know in this audience.) If you--if you believe that Jesus Christ died, rose again, ascended on high, setting at the right-hand of the Majesty (His body is), His Spirit come back to the church as we been teaching, then if He doesn't keep His Word, then He wasn't the Son of God. If He does keep His Word, then He's alive. After nineteen hundred years, He's still living. Now, the thing of it is, will He do it? If He promised it, and He's God, He has to do it. He's duty-bound to His Word. And He's no better than His Word. And I'm no better than my word, and you're better than your word. God's no better than His Word. If He won't keep it, then He isn't God. If He does keep it, it proves that He is God, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-45 Now, you sick people out there, if you believe it, and you have faith to touch Him like that woman did... Does the Bible say that He is, right now, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Does the Bible say that? All right. Then if He's the same High Priest, how would He act? The same way He did at that time, is that right?
Now, let us bow our heads just a moment and pray. And you pray that God will--you'll be able to touch His--the border, as it was, of His garment.
Now, just keep praying. I'll pray. And everybody be real quiet. I'll ask them if they'll turn the fans off, if they will, just for a few moments. Now, be real reverent and be in prayer. Now, this is a crucial moment.
I'm sure that every Christian could appreciate where I'm standing right now. The things that I have said and been talking about, it's either right or wrong. Now, just be reverent and pray and everyone keep their seat. No matter where you are, just be praying, believing with all your heart.

L-46 Now, Father, this meeting... One Word from You would be more than any man could say in a lifetime. Just one word, that these people could go from here tonight, and say, "from that time..." Let them say this... Like Blind Bartimaeus, in our lesson last evening, he touched Jesus and stopped Him.
The woman with the blood issue touched Him and stopped Him. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Lord, let these people touch Him. Send forth Your touching grace, Lord, that they might touch You for their infirmities, that the world might know that You're true, and You--You are the Son of God, and that I have told them the truth of Thy Word. Grant it, through Jesus Christ's Name.


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