<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 Some time ago a man said to me--was reading an article, and said the--about a little baby down in Mexico who had died in the meeting, or died that morning about nine o'clock, and this was eleven that night... And the doctor signed the statement that he pronounced the baby dead at nine o'clock that morning, and eleven o'clock that night it was alive. I prayed for it there, after seeing a vision. And prayed and laid hands on the little baby before about a, oh, fifty or seventy-five thousand people, and the little baby begin kicking and screaming, and come to life, and is alive today, so far as I know. The doctor signed a statement by it.
And so that's about five times that I've seen such done. And so the man said to me, "I am going to look this up to see if that's right."
I said, "I'll save you the trouble. Here's the doctor's statement."
He said, "If--if you could raise up... If you go and pray for thousands and they'd raise up from the dead, or--and the cancers," he said, "I still do not believe it."
I said, "Certainly not. It isn't for unbelievers. It's just for those who believe that." That's right, isn't it? All right. He can only deal with those who believe.

L-5 And there's only one unbelief. Let's keep that in our mind. There's only one sin. Now drinking, gambling, committing adultery, using profanity; that isn't sin. That's the attributes of unbelief. Jesus said, "He that believeth not is condemned already."
In the days of our Lord, He found many men who lived holy lives--clean, respectable gentlemen. And they were scholars, masterpieces of scholarship. And yet, He said to them, "You are of your father, the devil," because they did not believe Him. See? The message, they did not believe. That made them unbelievers. He could not help them. In His own country there was many He could not help, because of unbelief. So He could not save you in unbelief, neither can He heal you in unbelief. You... It's just as simple as, "Just believe it."

L-6 Now, before you can believe anything you have to have some kind of a conception of what you are believing and why. I do not believe that God heals people just to show His power to heal. I believe He heals people to show that He fulfills His Word and keeps His promises. When He came on earth the first time, He said that He did this "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet." All God's Word must be fulfilled, all of It.
When Jesus died at Calvary, we know His soul went to hell; His body went to the grave; His Spirit went to God. At Calvary He said, "Into Thy hands I commend My Spirit." And His Spirit went to God, the Father, into His hands.
The Bible said His soul--He went to hell and preached to the--the--the ones was in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah.
His body, we know, they put away in a grave and sealed it with a--with a rock: great stone was rolled up, and sealed.

L-7 Then, Jesus Hisself, His Spirit (which each of you are)... That was the Spirit of God in Him, but behind a bar, like this, the Word of God waiting to be fulfilled. He could not rise until the third day, because David had said, "I'll not leave His soul in hell, neither do I suffer My holy One to see corruption." We all know that corruption sets in the human body in seventy-two hours.
Now, He knew, sometime within that seventy-two hours, that He must raise up from the dead, for He said to them, "Destroy this body, I'll raise it up again in three days. (See?) Tear it--Destroy this temple, I'll rise it up--raise it up in three days."
Now see, to hold and to fulfill the Word of God, He was behind the Word of God with a promise until them complete three days was fulfilled. After the third day, the wall was taken down. On that morning, when the time was fulfilled, His Spirit descending from God, came down to the grave; raised up His body; broke the seals of death, hell, and the grave, and rose up alive forevermore.


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