<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>61-0213, It Is I, Be Not Afraid, First Assembly Of God Of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 102 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Borders. You may be seated. Deem this a great privilege tonight to be in the house of God to minister to His sick children. And we are sorry that we do not have the--the right setting--setting room for you. As we come up the street there was three or four cars going away. And then, we come this way, and there was a line of people going away from the church, that they didn't have room to come in. And maybe by next Sunday, if we'll try hard, maybe we could get the auditorium for the closing night down here, and we could get everybody in.
When you have a congested crowd, it--it makes it to a place where it makes the people nervous. And when you get the audience nervous, the Holy Spirit cannot work. You've got to come to God just reverently, quietly, believing, without any interruption. And then the Holy Spirit's... It's much easier for It to deal with us.

L-2 We certainly had a marvelous time this week here in the church. Been speaking on the services--the subjects of Abraham, building up faith for tonight for healing service. We've turned this part of the service over for praying for the sick.
Now, I would like for everyone to get a real good hold on God's Word first, because healing is God's... It's in the atonement. If the old atonement produced healing, this is a much better atonement, of course it would have healing in it. And the Bible said, "He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed."
Now, healing does not lay in a human being. Now, healing is a--is a redemptive blessing of God that has already been purchased for you at Calvary. Salvation is not at all something that takes place tonight. Your salvation was purchased for you nineteen hundred years ago when Christ died for you at Calvary. He... There's where your salvation was purchased.

L-3 Now, you have to accept it for your own personal affair. You say, "I'm the sinner and Christ died for me, and I'm the one He died for. So therefore, tonight I come on the basis of the shed Blood, and I accept my salvation, knowing there's nothing that I can do within myself. And I'm wholly and fully trusting Him tonight, and believing that He does save me according to His promise." Then you're saved, no matter if you have a sensation or not a sensation. You're saved by faith in the finished work at Calvary.
Now, that's the same way you're healed. When you... Now, you say, "Well, then, I wouldn't even have to come to church to be saved." That is true. Anywhere that you meet God's requirements, there's where you're saved. Anywhere that you meet God's requirements, that's where you're healed.

L-4 Now, God cannot change His opinion on things. We are constantly saying that, that our--we are basing our faith solemnly upon the Word of the Lord, for when God says anything He cannot take it back. He's God; He's infinite. Every decision is perfect.
And now, if He made His decision here, and it's perfect, now, He cannot make a more perfect decision at another age. He's got to make the same decision because... If He did, He would lack what He had in this one. And if He made the wrong decision there... Well, then if He made a different decision, rather, here than He did here, then He made a wrong one here. And if He done wrong, then He couldn't be God. See? So you must remember when the Lord says anything, that's exactly what it will be.


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