<TITLE>26. Par 192-198</TITLE>L-192 Now, if I told you that the life of John Dillinger was in me, you'd expect me to have big guns out here to shoot you. If I told you the life of a artist was in me, you'd expect me to paint the picture of an artist. Listen, church. I'm not scolding you. See? Look, if the Life of Christ is in the church, it'll do the... If the Holy Spirit is in the church, if this Pillar of Fire that science has taken the picture of, and so forth, that we see here in the church all the time, if that is the Spirit of Christ It'll do the works of Christ. Jesus said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do. They are the ones that testify of Me." If the Holy Ghost is still real, then the Holy Ghost will testify for Himself. Believe the works of the Holy Spirit.

L-193 There's been a lot of make-belief and put on. You expect that. God said it would come. Well, what's it trying to do? If there's a bogus dollar, it's got to be made off of a real one. You've seen people claim to have the Holy Spirit, and live in adultery, and drink, and everything else; they haven't got It. They're trying to impersonate It. But there's a real genuine somebody that's got It, got the Holy Spirit, and God confirms His Words with signs following. Harlot heard, she believed It.

L-194 Now, this woman, this Syrophenician woman, she believed also, this Greek. She said, "Lord." First she said, "Thou Son of David." A Gentile has no hold on Christ by the Son of David; that was through King David, the race of Jews. He never paid any attention to her. But when she turned and said, "Lord, help me," (Amen.), that got Him. He was her Lord; not a Son of David, but He was her Lord. "Lord, help me." That caught Him. And she... He turned around, said, "It's true the dogs eat the scraps from the masters' table. That is true." Look what; that woman had the right approach to God's gift. What did she say? He said she approached it right.

L-195 He disgraced her; He said, "You're... I'm not sent to you. You're dogs in your generation. Your races are nothing but dogs. I'm not sent to you."
She said, "It's truth, Lord." There's the Word. Amen. Stay with the Word. Faith will always recognize the Word. "But the dogs eat the crumbs under their masters' table." That got Him. "Lord, help me."
He turned and He said, "For this saying... O woman, great is your faith. And for this saying, the devil's left your daughter." What? She got what? She approached God's gift in the right way. You've got to approach the... And, remember, that was the first Gentile that ever had a miracle performed on them by the Son of David. Remember, that was the first miracle performed to a Gentile (That's right.), this healing of the Syrophenician woman. That's right. She had the right approach to God's gift. Faith in the midst of the Word is right, reverent, humble. See?

L-198 You're not going around saying, "Huh. I--I don't believe that stuff. If our catechism doesn't say it, huh-uh, I don't see." No matter what your catechism says, you put the catechism or anything else above the Word of God? The Word of God's right. Everything else is a lie. See?
And she come reverently, peacefully, reverently, humbly. You got to be humble. The way up is down always. "He that humbles himself shall be exalted, but he that exalts himself shall be abased."


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