<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>61-0516A, Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, Zion Gospel Tabernacle, Grand Prairie, AB, 114 min
L-1 Thank you, sir. Very nice to be here again this afternoon, after having such a wonderful time this morning in fellowshipping around the Word of the Lord. We are happy for our visit back again with you fine people here in--in the prairie.
And this morning we were speaking on the subject of achievement and "God's Provided Way." And I was telling the ones that was in the class this morning, that men are trying to achieve something for themselves, always, something that they can say, "I did this" or, "I did that."
And we was talking of the subject of how wonderful it would be, how the news would flash all over the world in a few moments, if people could find a way to control the rain, to put it on the crops or take it off the crops. Or how that if they could find a medicine somewhere would cause an old man to return young, and a woman back young, and live forever, why, they would--they would send news everywhere. They're trying to achieve that, but it's already been achieved. Christ has did this for us. And He is God's achievement for us, and we must believe Him.

L-2 Now, these services are not to be... Sometime they're called Divine healing services. Now, I do not believe that there is any man who can heal people. I believe that healing is done by faith in Christ, like salvation. There's no one could forgive our sins. They're already forgiven. Christ saved the world from sin when He died at Calvary. It'll never do you any good except you receive it as your own personal benefit. And that's the way it is by healing. All that God could do for the sick and the afflicted, He did it when He died at Calvary. And now, He purchased that for us. That was His achievement. Now, but to receive it, we have to accept it as our own personal property: salvation.
I might ask today, "How many of you people were saved ten years ago?" Many hands would go up. "How many was saved last year?" Hands would go up. But you see, you was not saved ten years ago or last year. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You accepted it ten years ago, or--or whenever you did. Now, it's already a finished work.
The Bible said, "He was wounded for our transgressions, with his stripes we were healed." See? It's a past tense, something that has been done. So simple, and yet Divine healing is one of the great masterpieces of the Bible, the masterpieces of--of God that was given to the Christian church, that's been long forgotten, long ago. But it's something that belongs to us; it's something that's your personal property.

L-3 And now, to say that it isn't so, they've come too late for that. But I've taken about seven trips around the world, and I've seen it in every nation: tens of thousands of blind, deaf, dumb, afflicted, cancers, tumors, leprosy, and even being dead (and doctor's statements written up, been dead for hours) and raised back to life again. So now those just can't be just statements. We wouldn't accept it like that. The doctor has to say so. See? It has to be an authentic statement before we can publish it.
And there's tens of thousands that's never been published, because I'm not very much on publishing things, 'less it's just among ourselves. Jesus said in one place, "Don't tell anybody about it. Just go ahead and give glory to God." So I think today, we put too much emphasis on publications and something that's show-off. But Christ is not a show-off. He's the Son of God, humble. How can men believe unless they were ordained to believe? There were many people in His days who did not believe it, but He came to those who did believe it.


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