<TITLE>02. Par 4-5</TITLE>L-4 And that's the way we find it overseas, Brother Mattsson, that we... As long as they can see something happen, if they know that the supernatural power of God is close, they'll just accept it, and get right up, and walk away. If they... They'll may stagger for awhile, if they're coming out of a wheelchair or something, but they'll keep on moving till they get going. And so they...
But here, it looks like you almost have to lay hands on the people; they've been taught that. Now, if you'll... Now, that's all right; that's perfectly all right. But if you'll bear with me in the Scriptures, that was a Jewish tradition of laying on of hands.
Now look, when Jairus' daughter was at the point of death, Jairus said, "Come, lay hands on her and she'll live." See, Jewish tradition.
But when He went to the Gentile's house, where his servant was laying at the point of death, he said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof; neither did I count myself worthy to come to You." That's the reason he sent somebody to tell Him. Said, "You just speak the word, and my servant will live." He said, "For I'm a man under authority, and if I say to this man, 'Goes.' he go; and this one, 'Come.' he comes. In other words, everything that's under my authority has to obey me." (And what was he saying--a Gentile to Jesus?) "I recognize that You're the Son of God, and all sicknesses is under Your authority. You can say to it, 'Go.' and it has to go." See?
Everything that's under His power is--is--is--is... And he recognized that sickness, and sin, and everything was under--under His control, that He could control it. Now, I think that's the way we should see it today; I've tried for years. But see, what does it--there's many other brothers on the field, and they lay hands on the sick and have great success.
And that way, I just broke it down and quit about a year ago, and said, "Well--well, as long as I'm in America, we'll just pray for the sick and lay hands on them. That's exactly right, 'cause I feel it brings the better results."

L-5 But really the truth--if the Holy Spirit can stand here and go out through that audience out yonder, and do the same works that He did when He dwelt in a body called Jesus Christ, can give you faith to believe it and me a gift to prove it, that it's absolutely the Presence of the Holy Spirit, to me, the work's finished; from Calvary, it's finished. And now just believe it and keep acting on it. Just don't--just don't have anything more to think about it; just, it's finished and that's all. God said so and that clears it up.
I keep on talking... Well, you'll freeze tonight setting out there, won't you? This is nice weather up here. I'd rather have it like this, then it would be so hot, you'd just setting there fanning just as hard as you could fan.


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