<TITLE>09. Par 73-77</TITLE>L-73 But now, to start back on the first verses, we find out... Now, to background where we left off last Sunday, we find in here that Paul, over in Ephesians 1:13 and 14, told us that we are--have the Earnest of our salvation, the Earnest of our redemption, for it is the Holy Spirit that is the Earnest of our redemption. And this... The next few weeks of teaching will all be based upon redemption (See?), upon redemption, not upon justification. No... It's based on redemption; not upon the--the mediatorial office of intercession, but upon redeemed: Oh, an inheritance that was lost or forfeited and has been redeemed back to us again, and how it all come about, and how God planned it before there ever was a world, and how secure the church is anchored.

L-74 I think it's come to a time that when we've got to know how we stand. How can you do anything unless you got faith in what you're doing? You've got to have faith. And that's my purpose of doing this with the church here, is to give the believers faith and confidence in what they are standing for, because it is the Word of the Lord. Then as long as through the Scripture it's sovereignly placed from Genesis into Revelations, back and forth, and up and down, not a way for the devil to move in there anywhere, then you got perfect confidence (See?), you know where you're standing.

L-75 Same thing would be with our sister here that's in the wheelchair, or maybe others that are sick and afflicted. If you can have perfect understanding that it's God's good pleasure to make you well, there isn't enough devils in the country to keep you sick. See? That's right. When you understand that it's God's good pleasure to make you well, that He has did it for you, and you understand then how that you are to go do a certain thing...
It's like this. If I told you with all of my heart, that... If you were hungry and starving to death, and you had supreme confidence in me as a truthful person, and I told you where there was a thousand dollars laying, how you'd get to it, what road you go, exactly where to go to, and you understand exactly where the money is a-laying (See?) then would you start rejoicing right then, just the same as you had the money, if you believe me.

L-77 So, you see, before you're ever get--feel any different or anything else, you can be just as happy over your healing in saying you got it, because you're positive sure you got it, because you got confidence in the One that promised it to you. See, see? Your--your confidence is that He cannot lie, and He's told you exactly where it was laying at, and then you--you got confidence that you're going, you've got it already, because that is your faith which is the earnest of your redemption.
In other words, you're trying to be redeemed from sickness, and your faith is that substance of that blessed--or, rather, it's the earnest of your healing. As long as something says in your heart, "I'm the Lord that heals you," that's just as good; that's all you need. That... You can start just as happy, no matter what happens. If you don't get it, if you get worse, you're still just as happy as you was if you was perfectly well, because you've got that assurance that it's over. How many understands that now? Let's see your hand. There you are, the evidence of things not seen.


<A HREF="P10">Next Page</A>