<TITLE>05. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 It's to my confession tonight that Jesus Christ is alive and not dead. He lives in His Church. Although many of our creeds has forced Him on the outside, as the Bible... We see in the Laodicean church age, the last church age, which is the Pentecostal age that we're in now, Jesus was standing, put out of His church, knocking on the door trying to get back in. "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten..." trying... "If any man will open, I'll come in and sup with him."
Now, upon this, upon this confession that... If we can see tonight in this building that Jesus is still alive, and can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that Jesus Christ, God's Son in the form of the Holy Spirit, is right in this building, then if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will act the same as He did yesterday, today, and forever. His compassions and love will be the same.

L-15 And it was based upon the basis of, "If ye can believe, I can. I do as the Father shows Me." Like the woman touched His garment and virtue went out. He looked around over the audience till He found the woman that touched Him. He said--told of her her blood issue had stopped because that her faith had saved her.
Notice that word "saved"? Run that through the Bible and see if it ain't the same Greek word each time, "sozo." Means "saved physically" or "saved spiritually," either one. It's translated the same thing both times in the Greek: "Sozo." Thy faith has saved thee." Saved thee from what? Sin. Saved thee from what? The blood issue. "The faith has saved thee." And it's all based upon faith.

L-16 Now, we find that when Jesus was here, and He showed that Hisself He was Messiah, there was many of them that did not believe it, and they wanted to class Him as a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub, a devil that was doing the work of God. Any of you remember that in the Bible? All right. Jesus said, "I forgive you for that. But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, to speak against It, will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come."
And He promised the Gentile age, at the close of the Gentile age, it would be the same kind of a Messiahic sign as the Jewish age was closing, as the Samaritan age was closing. The three classes of people: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people... And at the end of the Gentile age... If that's the way He proved Himself to be Messiah to the close of the Gen--to the close of the Jews, and the close of the Samaritans, then He's got to act the same way to the Gentiles. If we go through just on theology, then He misrepresented Himself, by proving Hisself Messiah to them the way He did it, and let us not have that same sign.

L-17 But if you'll bear closely now (listen, to you in these chairs and stretchers, if you'll watch closely now)... Now, He can only prove Himself to be alive. But as far as your healing, it's a finished product. If He was standing here tonight with this suit on that He gave me, He could not heal you. If you come and begged Him, and pleaded Him to, He cannot do what He's already done. He's left it up to you on the basis of your faith. He cannot save you against your own way, your own will. You're a free moral agent. You can turn it down, or you can accept it.
You understand clearly now? He cannot heal you against your will; He cannot save you against your will. But He can make Hisself known in His promises. Then you accept it upon those basis. How many understands it now? Now, let us bow our heads, then, as we pray.


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