<TITLE>21. Par 67-69</TITLE>L-67 So I thought, "With twenty-two pages I ought to answer him at least one page back to show him my fellowship." So I got me a--a little book, and I set down, and I said, "Dear Brother in Christ," I said, "Christian greetings to you." If a man's preached that long, he deserves to be respected, if he's preached the Gospel, even if he's in error. I said, "The first thing I want to say; I forgive you for what you said. Now, Jesus said, People come to see Him and perform the same things that you seen done, going out and perceiving the thoughts of the people and telling them what was and what would be, and they called Him a Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, a devil. And Jesus said, 'I'll forgive you for that, but someday the Holy Ghost is coming to do it and you speak against that, it'll never be forgiven you, so then--in this world neither in the world to come.'" I said, "What if this was right, then where is your fifty years of preaching gone? See? What good did it do you? You're lost and can never be saved." I said, "But I wont through ignorance you said it." So just kind of pinch him a little bit to let him know that we wasn't in the dark.

L-68 So then, he said... And I said, "But the idea of it is, what I'm studying about, my brother," I said, "what gets me, is for you to say that Satan can heal." I said, "Jesus Christ said, 'If Satan can cast out Satan, then his kingdom is divided against itself.' That's right. Jesus said he could not heal, now you said he can, and Jesus said he could not. Then who's right? He said, 'Let every man's word be a lie and Mine be true.'" I said, "Therefore then Jesus is right and I accept His Word, my brother." And I said, "But howbeit," I said, "certainly, I can see where the healing comes." I said, "We got people in the land today, called Divine healers, go around say, 'Glory, I got healing in my hands, whew, feel it?'" No, you don't, you feel the hand, not healing. Jesus never did say, "Did you feel it?" Said, "Did you believe it?" That's right. Not, "Did you feel it." All these sensations and all things, brother, it's something mythical made up. It's not God's Word. "He that believeth..." That's where it's at. It's faith in the finished work. Christ died and healed you at Calvary. He saved you there. You've got to accept it by faith like the rest of us does. Right. You believe it.
You don't have to stay there and beat and cry all night, you could cry till you got gray headed and laid on the altar and died. Until you accept that Blood sacrifice that God gave to you, you're lost. I don't care how you feel. I don't go by how I feel; I feel a lot of times like I'm way behind. But the Bible said I've met God's requirements.

L-69 Jesus defeated the devil on the Word. He said, "If thou be the Son of God command these stones to be turned to bread."
Said, "It is written: man shall not live by bread alone." He defeated him with the Word of God, and that's how we defeat him, is by the Word of God, THUS SAITH THE LORD. Correct. Say it's a soothsayer then, why did God say, "If there be one among you spiritual or prophet, when he speaks and then what he says comes to pass, hear him 'cause I'm with him." How do all these Scriptures bring right down to this last day?"
See, they just don't understand. See, they just can't understand. It's a revelation of God through His Word. They come... They didn't believe Him when He come. They don't believe the church today when it's coming into, or existence. They don't--they don't believe it because it don't cope with their theology. But it copes with the Word. God confirming His Word with signs following, that's the vindication, if He says this and it comes to pass. If we preach the baptism of the Holy Ghost and somebody gets it, that proves it's right.


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