<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>61-0409, Sirs, We Would See Jesus, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, 109 min
L-1 Tonight in Bloomington... I have looked forward to this coming for the past two years. I've been feeling led to come in this part of the country; which I understand that many of the evangelists has not been here, some of the outstanding evangelist of the nation has never been into this country. And I thought it would be a great thing, as I felt the tug of the Holy Spirit to come and minister with these brethren these eight nights here in the Name of the Lord: to come and place in our part of the seine, to seine for souls. And that's our business of being here, is to try to see the church of God increase in its power, and in its membership, and to the glory of the Kingdom of God.

L-2 And then, we pray for the sick; that's part of the Gospel as our Lord Jesus has told us that we should go into the world and preach the Gospel and pray for the sick. And we have these nights, along in our campaigns that we pray for the sick. We do not claim to be a healer now. We just claim that we pray for the sick, like anyone else does.
We believe that all that God can do for you has already been purchased for you at Calvary. When He died at Calvary, He finished the plan of salvation, redemption for the soul and body. And now, we draw the earnest of our salvation, which is the Holy Spirit. And then also we have the--the earnest of our resurrection; that is, that when our bodies are sick, God is our Healer. I believe that it is upon a finished work that was completed for us at Calvary some nineteen hundred years ago, when Christ died for us to redeem us from these things.
I do not believe that there's anyone that could forgive sins, less it's a sin against them. If you'd sinned against me, then ask me to forgive you, I could do that, and would do it. But I believe that the sins that you have committed against God, that God is the only One can forgive those sins.

L-3 And I believe that Divine healing is based upon a faith, just like salvation, that we believe that He was wounded for transgressions, with His stripes we were healed.
You notice, the apostle Peter places it in the past tense, "We were healed." It's a past tense, just like salvation is a past tense. When Jesus died at Calvary, He saved the whole world. Every human being, ever would be on the earth, the sin question was settled once for all when Jesus died. But it will never, you'll never be a beneficiary of this policy until you accept it. And there's nothing you can do to merit it. It's a unmerited thing that God has done for you. And you just accept it by faith; in the simplicity of faith God has made it, so we could all reach it. Rich or poor, illiterate or educated, we can all accept it because it's in the reach of all us, just by childlike simplicity to believe that the finished work at Calvary included me.

L-4 And, same goes by Divine healing, that we believe that Divine healing is something that Christ purchased for us at Calvary. It's a finished product of God, and only thing we do, is to receive it by faith, believe it. That's the reason we call it "healed by faith," because that's what it is. Therefore, it could not be in a individual, any person have something another that would heal another person.
Frankly, there's nothing that can heal you outside of God. "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." The Scripture is infallible and cannot be broken. So therefore, medicine doesn't claim to heal. Medicine... We're not against medicine. Medicine is of the Lord. But medicine cannot heal. Medicine only can--can assist nature in God's Divine plan of healing. There never was a medicine ever healed anyone. There's no doctor will tell you that. Because...


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