<TITLE>16. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 But I said, "Then you were, keep pushing me about me--my theology, saying, 'That a devil could not heal.'" I said, "I'll give you Jesus." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You can't make the Scripture, get all bundled up, you got to keep it clear and straight. That's right. I said, "Jesus said, 'Satan cannot heal,' and you said, 'He healed.'" Now, I said, "Now, if you'll pardon me." I said, "I--I will give what, about your witch that you've got in your neighborhood." I said, "If... 'Course those people get healed." Because, I said, "In Africa, I've seen them go to idols and get healed. In Las Alderaines they got a monument there of some dead woman, in a Catholic church. They go there and look at that dead woman, say a 'Hail Mary,' and get healed. Sure, because the people think they're approaching God through that, and God heals on the basis of faith, and wherever faith's met God's got to meet that requirement." That's right.
I said, "There's many people in the country today, call themselves Divine healers." Saying, 'I've got power in my hands. Glory, Hallelujah. Woooo. Feel that.'" And the American people fall for it like I don't know what, like hot cakes to a bum. And they--and they--they think that's right. They're getting healed because they're... That ain't it. Your faith in in the finished work of Jesus Christ. There's where healing lays. Don't you never let anybody tell you they got power to heal. They haven't.

L-49 Jesus Christ has already paid the debt. How could you redeem it again? Give you a clear receipt from the pawn shop, that you was in. You're redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus. You don't have power to heal. The thing you do is have--you might have a gift to manifest God. You might have a gift to manifest Him through a great preacher, like some of these my brethren, who could far better stand here and do this job than I could, because that's their calling. My calling is something else. But each one of us has a gift to try to tell you that Christ healed you when He died for you. He was wounded for your transgressions, with His stripes you were healed. Something to make you know, if you can't believe the Word, then He sends signs and wonders, and to prove that He is the resurrected Christ. See? Therefore, that's where you get your healing, by believing on Him.

L-50 Now, so then, I said, "But the thing, that I'm worried about Mister, is not that, but that the dean of a Lutheran College would place his doctrine upon a sensation, or on an experience instead of placing it upon the Word of God." Yeah. Oh, you can have any kind of a sensation, but it's got to be the Word of God. That's right. I said, "A dean of a college, been preaching for fifty years, and would base your doctrine (that cut him pretty hard)--base your doctrine upon a--upon some kind of an experience that a woman had, instead of basing it upon the Word of God. God said, 'Satan cannot heal,' and that settles it. When He speaks, it's eternally right."


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