<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Now, at the judgment we'll all meet that. There's probably fifteen hundred people in here tonight, I guess that many. Pardon, I'm a very poor counter. He says there's around nineteen hundred. I'd rather make it a little... There's so many evangelistic count that tries to make it so much bigger than what a crowd is. I have preached before five hundred thousand at one time at Bombay, India. And in Durban, South Africa, it was discussed where there was a hundred fifty-two hundred thousand people. Hundred fifty-two hundred thousand people is nothing in them lands. In Thailand and places like that where you--really the people come out, and you see them by the tens of thousands and thousands.
That doesn't mean... The crowds don't mean anything. It's the faith that's in the individual that counts. See? Jesus could never help the audience of one of the priests, or Caiaphas, or some of those people. Neither could any of us in religious circles ever hold a meeting bigger than the Catholic church. You know that. But it isn't in... We put too much stresses on how many people, and try to boost up something. Don't boost up anything. Just--just be truthful about it. Tell the truth. Then you're always right.

L-16 And when you're going to talk about healing, don't try to say, "I got something in my hand. Feel it?" Well, you might feel your hand, but healing's not in your hand; it's in Calvary. It's in your faith, where it was finished at Calvary. And let the people... That's... And if you're a sinner, repent. Tell God that you're sorry you're a sinner, and you're sick. Maybe sometimes He had to lay you on your back so to get you to look up see. And then get right with God, and then everything will be all right if... You're more apt to get healed if you'll do that.
Now, I know it's hot, and I'm going to try to be just as brief as I can, so we can pray for the sick. Now, all you people that understands that it is your faith in Jesus Christ that heals you, say "amen." Understood.

L-17 Now, there's gifts in the Bible; and those gifts, what do they do? They only declare the Presence of the One that made the gift. Now, if Jesus stood here tonight Himself on the platform, and you knew that--that He'd come down from heaven, and you knew it was Him, and He stood here, would it raise your faith? Sure, it would. Well, He is here.
You say, "How do I know He is?" Well, then, if He does the same thing here in us... Now, He don't have any hands. How many knows that? No, He--His Hands... Your hand is His hands. We... He is the Vine; we are the branches. And the vine doesn't bear the fruit the branch does. But if the branch is energized with the Life of the Vine, it'll do the same things that He did. then you know it's Him.

L-18 He said, "A little while and the world sees Me no more ('course, the word there 'Kosmos' which means 'the world order') but ye shall see Me (that's the believer) for I'll be with you," how long? to the end of the consummation, the end of the world: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And now, to the... may be spectators, I don't... hope there's none of them here tonight. But if there is, don't be just a spectator, put your faith with these believers. Won't you do that tonight, for the sake of these poor sick people?
And remember, when Jesus came to His own country, listen what the Scripture says. We hate to read it like this, but it says so: "Many mighty works He could not do." You couldn't hardly think of Christ not being able to do it, but He couldn't. He could not do it, because of their unbelief. What did He say to the boy with the epilepsy, or to his father? "I can, if ye believe, for all things are possible to them that believe."


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