<TITLE>09. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 When the disciples was given power to heal the sick, ten days later we find them defeated on a epileptic case. And I'd imagine Peter saying, "Wait, I'll show you how I done it down at Capernaum."
And the other one saying, "I'll show you how I did it."
And none of them could make this demon leave the child. But when Jesus came, and the father went to see Jesus, and he said, "I've brought him to Your disciples and they could do nothing for him, and I've brought him to You."
He said, "I can, if you believe; for all things are possible to them that believe." And the child went into the hardest fit it ever had, 'cause that devil knew that he'd met faith on a different level than what the apostles had. He'd met a perfect faith.
That's what we must have: perfect faith to make the perfect Word of God perform perfectly. That's it. We must believe it without a shadow of doubt.

L-31 Now, let's go back down to Galilee, take a little mental trip now for about twenty minutes. Let's go to Galilee and find out what Jesus was. We know His birth and His immaculate conception and how that He was born.
And John went into the wilderness, age about nine years old, and praying and fasting before God. And thirty years old he came out preaching a coming Messiah. And one day, an ordinary little Man walked down on the bank, but there was a sign above Him which was the Messiahic sign, and John recognized it. And he said, "I knew that it was Him, for I seen the sign that told me in the wilderness that--Who He would be.
Jesus, baptized of John, then we find that forty days He was tempted of the devil in the wilderness. Then after He came out of his temptation, we find Him immediately entering upon His public ministry. Now, that's what we're here this afternoon--entering His public ministry. And the sick begin to be healed when He prayed for them. And it caused a great stir among the churches. "Who is this Man?" They had no answer in their--in their creeds. And they--they was--they could not deny that a--a notable things were being done.

L-32 So there was an old fisherman by the name of Andrew, and he had a brother named Simon. And Andrew tried to get Simon to go to the meeting. And finally Simon agreed one day, to go. And when Simon came up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus... Now, watch close. when he came to the Lord Jesus, he did not ask Him if He had His Bachelor of Arts degree yet, or he did not ask Him what organization He belonged to. He just merely walked up, like you have, like I have. And as soon as Jesus' eyes caught him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
Simon was taken off of his feet, because his father Jonas was a Pharisee, a great man. And if you have read the history, he told his son that someday the Messiah would come; and they were all looking for a Messiah. Do you know they thought John was the Messiah, because the real true church was looking for a Messiah? And remember, He only comes to those who are looking for Him. He only saves those who believe that He can save them. He only heals those who believe that He heals them. And Simon, looking for a Messiah...


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