<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Now, Father, I pray that You'll hide me so that I won't see men, or fear men or nothing, but just preach the Word, lay It our simple and plain. And then may You come behind that and confirm what I've said to be the truth. And then that makes it true, Lord. And if I never meet this people again this side of heaven, or this side of the judgment. Then they'll be no man's blood on my hands, Lord. And You'll be free because You confirmed Your Word. I pray You'll grant it tonight.
Heal the sick, Lord, and save those who are savable, all that You have called. If there's any of those in here tonight, Lord that before the world began, that by Your great foreknowledge You knew would be saved...
And tonight, somehow You've herded right in to the place. May something be done tonight that'll cause them to recognize their lovely Saviour, and receive Him. I pray in Jesus' Name, Amen.
Now, in the writings of Saint Matthew the 14th chapter and the 27th verse...
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
And I want to use that word of, "Be Not Afraid. Be Not Afraid," three words for our text.

L-24 And then, it must've been about the time the sun was going down: long, tiresome day, drug-out, many things had taken place. And I can see the big muscles swell out under his shoulders, as he begin to move that boat off the sandy shores of the Galilee and push it out into the water.
The brawny, big fisherman, called Simon then took his place as he walked up through the little ship, and set down by the side of his brother Andrew, and picked up an oar. And as the little ship begin to move out into the water gently, the screams of the people from the bank was screaming, "Come back and see us again. We so appreciate your visit with us." How their hearts must've swelled to know that they had done something that was good. All of us like to hear that, oh, everybody. Sometimes leaving a meeting, people are weeping and...

L-25 Here, when I was leaving South Africa, recently. There was about ten thousand at the airport. And they was out there, standing out there weeping and crying, whaling, screaming, "Come back and tell us again about Jesus." You see? So many great things...
And a little doctor that had seen a miracle performed, a little cross-eyed boy started on the platform, just as cross-eyed as he could be. And before he got to me his eyes come straight. Go on... Just took him off the platform, and a British doctor come back off the--setting back there. And he come, said, "What did you do to that boy? Did you hypnotize him?"
I said, "Hypnotize him?" I said, "And they give you license to practice medicine, and you know more about hypnotism than that?"
And he said, "I put the boy on the platform; he was cross-eyed. And here he is, his eyes are straight." Said, "Something happened between there and there."
I said, "He met Jesus." See?
And I said, "I never touched him."
And he said, "Did you hypnotize him?"

L-26 I said, "Certainly not, sir." I said, "If hypnotism will straighten crooked eyes, you fellows better get to practicing hypnotism?" You see? "It'd be better than any operation you could do if hypnotism will do it."
I said, "No, I did not hypnotize the boy. God straightened his eyes."
He said, "I--I know there's a God." He said, "I know there's a God." Said, "There--there that lily..." Their lilies there sisters, if you might know some of them with them big calla lilies are eighteen inches across, big yellow and white ones, the most beautiful thing, growing wild right in the jungle. They had big bouquets of them setting all over the platform.
Said, "I know there's God, life in them lilies because the lily couldn't live without life." He said, "But tangible enough to perform an operation on those eyes?"
I said, "Who made the eyes in the first place? See? Where they'd come from?"
And he said, "Well..."


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