<TITLE>11. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 Now, remember that God always gives signs and wonders. How many believes that? Now, in the Old Testament... Now, listen close. Just... It won't take long. If we can get you to see the message, there won't be a person in here in a wheelchair. There won't be a sick person in this building in forty minutes from now, if you'll listen and catch it close.
Now, let's just prove it. That's what the Bible said. "Prove all things." Now, if He made the promise, He's got to keep the promise.
And God, in the Old Testament, if a prophet prophesied, or a dreamer dreamed a dream, the way they found out whether that was true or not, they went down to the Urim Thummim. The pastors and so forth knows about that: the breastplate of Aaron. He had the twelve stones, the birthstones of the patriarchs. It hung on a post in the temple. And when the prophet begin to prophesy, or the dreamer tell the dream, no matter how real it sound, if it didn't reflect that conglomeration of lights in there, the supernatural wasn't working. So they refused the message.
I don't care how much as good it sound, how it fit up with Dr. So-and-so's theology, or how it fit up with the--this church or that organization, they condemned it because the supernatural didn't act. Amen.
I begin to feel religious. Yes, sir. Where a supernatural God is, there's going to be supernatural things happening. Hallelujah... can't keep from it. It's just got to be that way.

L-38 Now, notice now, when that priesthood ended, Aaronic priesthood, then that Urim Thummim was taken away. But God has another Urim Thummim, which is His Word, the Bible.
Now, if God makes a promise in the Bible, and then if you receive that, the supernatural promise will make a supernatural manifestation, 'cause God will vindicate His Word. Absolutely. If it doesn't, then it isn't the Word of God. If it isn't...
Then if our faith isn't great enough, don't deny it. If God made the promise, say, "It's so, but I ain't got faith enough to do it." Let the other fellow do it.
If I haven't got faith enough to start walking like Enoch did, and take an afternoon walk and go home with God, I'll never stand in somebody else's way who does have enough faith to do it. I'll say, "Praise God for that brother. He walked right on out of the earth. I'm just thankful for that. I--I can't do it, but I'm thankful he did it." I... See? I believe that, and I don't want to stand in anybody's way who has faith to make God's Word be confirmed. Now, it's got to come from the Word.

L-39 Now, when Jesus came, He came to His own, the Jews. Now, we find out He had a Messiahic sign that followed Him. John bare record of it, and it looked like a dove, a Light, coming down from heaven. He noticed it. Now, when that Light, or dove, came into the Son of man, we notice what taken place.

L-40 Andrew, let's start off with him. We... Now, in Saint John 1 the 1st chapter, I'm in. We find out that Andrew, as soon as he believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, he goes to get Simon Peter. His name was Simon then, and he said to Simon, "Now, you must come see." (Let's break in on their conversation. They're both fishermen.)
I can see Simon, perhaps the older of the two, set down on the side of the boat and say, "Andrew, now you know that we're both Pharisees, because we're after our old father, the Pharisee. And I remember, Andrew, before father died when I was yet a young boy... One day after we'd fished out on the lake all day long, we come in; and father had prayed hard that he'd get fish. And right at the last hour we caught fish for our bread the next day. Oh, I can see how--how mother's always on her knees praying. How we trusted God to help us."
"Oh, certainly, brother Simon. I remember that very well."


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