<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 And now, you yourself... Now, many times I've seen people grasp at faith, and try to reach for it. Many times people just go over the top of it. Faith is so simple. It's just... In the Bible did you notice what they applied the blood with? Was hyssop. Well, hyssop is just common weeds down in Egypt, and also up in Palestine you find it growing around in the cracks of the adobes, and so forth, right on the ground--just a little green, three-cornered shaped, diamond-shaped leaf with a little flower on it. You could just pick it up anywhere. It was hyssop. That's what they applied the blood on the lintel of the door. Hyssop... And the reason they made it weeds, because it represents faith.
How do you apply the Blood? By faith, not some super something, but just common faith like you have. That's the way you apply the Blood. Like you say, "I'm going out to get in my car and go home." How do you know you are? You're not sure of that. You're almost sure of it, but you believe you are. Then you just go ahead, acting, and you go on.
That's the same way healing is. Just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, accept Him as your Healer upon the basis of His shed Blood, that He was wounded for your transgressions, with His stripes you were healed: not will be healed but were--past tense. You've already been healed by His stripes. I think that's a most marvelous thing. By His stripes we were, in past tense, healed.

L-6 Now, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Tommy Osborn, Mr. A. A. Allen, oh, so many of the brethren on the field that has a ministry of laying on hands on the sick and praying for them... And there's where I get the fall back: "You don't pray for enough." Now, those Christian brethren, I believe that they have a ministry from God. And now, they pray for hundreds and hundreds a night. Now, that's perhaps... Now, I do believe with all my heart that they're doing what God told them to do. That's their ministry.
Now, but if you'll just bear with me a moment, I believe there is a higher way to reach Christ than laying on hands, 'cause... If you notice, the patient can say this, "Brother So-an-so laid hands on me. I felt the power of God coming through his hands." See, that puts a man in it again. See?

L-7 But that was a Jewish tradition. If you notice, the little priest said, "Come lay your hands on my daughter (Jairus) and she will be well." Now, that--he was Jew.
But the Roman, the Gentile, said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof. Just speak the word and my servant will live." You see where that Roman's faith...? It placed Jesus...
He went ahead to say, "I'm a man under authority." He was a centurion, which means he was under a century, a hundred men, in the Roman army. He said, "When I say to this one, 'Go,' he goes; to this one, 'Come,' he comes." He knowed that everything was under his jurisdiction, he had control of, and it had to obey him. What did he say, then, when he confessed Christ, to that? "Say to my..." He said this, "You are--You have power over anything, over any sickness. Just speak the Word."
What did Jesus say about that? He turned around, and He did--He certainly did honor that Roman. He said, "I have not seen faith like that in Israel." See?
"Don't come lay your hands on; just speak the Word." Now, that's where we're trying to get people, to believe that He... It's not some human being; it's your Lord, Jesus Christ. It's what He did for you.


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