<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 Like, one time I walked into a building, there was a--a Methodist minister, Reverend Arnie Clagg. I was a Baptist minister at the time. Mr. Bohanon was setting there, Charlie Bohanon, which was the past master-mason. He was the superintendent of the company I was working for. Father Halpin, a Irish priest came in. And he said, "Now, what should we all do now? We're all setting together."
And the old priest made a--a remark that's always stuck with me real well. He took a piece of paper and drawed a little block and wrote, "Los Angeles." He said... And then he drew several lines going down towards Los Angeles.
He said, "Now, here's Billy." That was me. He said, "He goes down on what we say the Pennsylvania Line." Said, "Here's Brother Clagg and he goes down on what they call the Southern Line." And different ones... lines going. Said, "They all lead to Los Angeles. Just stay on your train." So I thought in a--a time like that, that was a pretty good remark for a Irish priest. And so that's... a whole lot of truth to that though.

L-9 Is the main thing is not what you believe but Who you believe. That's it. And we believe tonight that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that was borned of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pilate, crucified, rose the third day and ascended up in heaven, and sets at the right hand of the Majesty of God tonight, there ever living to make intercessions upon our confession. Therefore, He could not intercede for us until we first confess that He has did the work; it's a finished work.
Now, I might make this statement, that all healing, all salvation is--is what God has achieved for us through Christ. It's already a finished work. Now, bear that in mind as you are prayed for, or tell your friends, that there's nothing that we can do to improve it, nothing we can do to further it.
The only thing we can do is teach it (See?), that it's already been achieved. God Himself did that for us at Calvary. And there "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed." It's a past tense. Now, it's up to you and I to appropriate faith, in ourselves to accept what Christ has did for us.
And the moment we accept it and confess that He has done it, then He's setting at the right hand of God to make intercessions upon our confession.

L-10 Now, the word confess there in the... is same word (the ministers here would know it) profess it says, but profess and confess is the same word. To profess it was done confess it. It come from the same Greek word.
And we know that it... We must confess that He has done it, and He cannot do it until we confess it. And then He's the High Priest to make intercessions upon what we confess that He has done for us. That makes a faith in a finished work that Christ did for us at Calvary. Just that simple. Now, that's the unadulterated Gospel.


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