<TITLE>09. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Like Brother Aegery, or some of these brethren, not long ago, the Lutheran brethren, who told me they knowed a witch that healed the people...
I said, "No, you never. You never seen no witch heal a person." Yet, I've been in Africa and see them... They go before the witch doctor and get healed. And Alsace Lorraine, France, there's a place there, down at--at the--there by the... I think it's the Seine River it is, where the church of Notre Dame. There's a dead woman buried there, this great big place where they go there, and rub it to keep plagues off the city, this rock above this dead woman. Why, certainly, and things happen.
Sure. It's the approach. The people think they're approaching God through that idol. People think they're approaching God through the witch doctor. And many times, people on the fields today here in America... Men say, "Just come, oh, I--I got healing." That--that's wrong. The good sound Gospel teachers don't teach it like that. They teach it as in the atonement. Christ healed you. And they're here just as men of God in faith, to believe and pray for you. But when you hear somebody say, "I can heal you. I got healing. I've done this." That is wrong. Christ did that for you when He died at Calvary for you. That's the blessing that belongs to you. It's your...

L-30 And these people are approaching these idols, and images, and witch doctors, and fortunetellers, and all those different things like that. They get healed because they have believed that through there they're approaching God. And Divine healing is based upon--upon faith, if you believe it.
Now, that's the reason the turtledove and pigeon wasn't separated. I told you someday I could get to that. And I thought having as much as time as I have this afternoon, I would try to get to it for you. That's the reason it was not, they wasn't separated. But the others was separated, cut in two.

L-31 Now, what was God doing? To kill these animals, it taken blood. In order for the sacrifice for the cleansing of sin, there has to be a blood offering. God based that in Genesis, when man tried to build himself an organization, or some kind of fig leaf apron, and get around it. God refused to look at him. And God, when God once makes a--a statement, when God once says anything, when God ever once called on the scene to make a decision, that decision He makes has to stand for eternity, because His Word is perfect. He cannot go back and say, "I was mistaken yesterday. I know more about it today." How can He be infinite and--and make him a statement, and--and then have to go back on it? How? That gives us confidence in the One that we're talking about: God. He cannot fail.

L-32 If God was ever called to heal a sick man, and He healed him on the basis of his faith, if another man comes on the same grounds, He's got to meet that same condition, or He did wrong when He healed the first man. Certainly. If He saves a man on the basis of faith, then how are we going to get in then upon church joining, and sprinkling, and baptisms, and so forth? It's by faith, by grace, by the power of God, by something that you was--something that met God's requirement and He called you and changed your life before you even could do anything about it.
Why, there's nothing in you. You're a sinner to begin with. And there's nothing there to change. So God by His grace, foreknow you, and called you to His ministry and to His wedding supper. You see, it's nothing you can do about it all. God's grace altogether, God did it by grace. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me (not make believeth), but believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (present tense) Everlasting Life and shall not come into the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." Amen.


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