<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Now, I'd like for someone that didn't believe in Divine healing to watch this. Jesus had given them power to cast the spirits out, and they had failed. Not the power had failed, but they had failed. Jesus told them... "Why could we not cast him out." He said, "because of your unbelief."
The church still has a power. God's never taken His power from the church, but the church don't have faith enough to act upon it. That's all. It's just that simple. We try to make it so complicated sometimes, but the more simple you make the Gospel, the more reality you'll have, when you just get real simple with it: God said so; that settles it; and that's all. And just believe it, go ahead.

L-6 When Jesus said, "No man eateth from thee," why, the leaves were just as pretty and bright as they ever was. The bark looked the same, but way down beneath the ground in those roots, the life begin to dwindle away.
So is it upon a cancer, upon any kind of disease that--that you might want to think. When you can accept God's Word, way down deep in the roots, the cancer may be there; your hand may be just as stiff. That don't have anything to do with Divine healing. It's "If Thou canst believe." See? Way down somewhere, it's already gone to work.

L-7 Jesus said, "If you say to this mountain, be moved, and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you said. Isn't that lovely? Who'd that come from? The Son of God, Whose Words... Heavens and earth will pass away, but now--but His Word's won't.
Now, the only way that you can do that, you've got to have the right objective and the right motive. Now, if I went out here and said, "I'll show you I can move this mountain, 'Be moved, mountain.'" It would never move. Certainly not. No matter what I had. It's got to be... First you've got to find the will of God.
That's the reason, usually in the prayer lines, I--I get the very hardest, is because it's something that's went through lines and so forth, and that's where you get it back. But see, if you've got unconfessed sin... Did you ever notice on a case, before I ask the evil spirit to leave, I watch that case real sure to be certain that there's nothing in that life that would hinder anything (See?), because remember, on these gifts, you could get in trouble with them.

L-8 God--you remember one time--gave a prophet--made a prophet out of a man, Moses, and told him to go down and speak to the rock. And the prophet was all excited, and went out, and smote the rock, speaking of the weakness of Christ, that He'd have to die the second time or be smitten the second time. He had power to bring it, but it wasn't the will of God.
I never could believe that it was God's will for El--Elijah to go around, 'cause them children was teasing him about being baldheaded, I don't think he should have did that. But he was a prophet, and was angered, and he put a curse on those children and two she bears killed forty-two little innocent children. See? But I don't believe he should've done that. And it just--just... we...
God, I believe today, before He puts His church in power, He tries His church to see what it will do.
We--next time, maybe, if the Lord willing when I come back, we have time to dwell on something like that, on something that's fixing to happen, and then we'll know more about it then.


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