<TITLE>31. Par 242-246</TITLE>L-242 Now, remember, there's people goes around and say, "I got power to heal you." That guy's telling you a lie. He has no power to heal you. Christ has already done it. Talk about confession of sins, and so forth, and some priest or be a minister forgiving your sins? No, sir, your sins are already forgiven. When Christ died on the cross, He said, "It's finished." What? The complete plan, everything. Christ did it at the cross. You're already saved. Every sinner's saved, but it'll never do you any good till you accept it. You get down there at the altar, scream, cry till you get gray-headed and your hairs fall out; it'll never do any good until you believe, believe that Christ died in your stead, and you... He died a propitiation for your sins. When you accept Him as your Saviour, then salvation comes to you, same thing by healing. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed."

L-243 There's only one thing that Christ could do today to show that He is. First thing, is, you've got to believe upon the basis of His Word. That's exactly right, the truth of the Word. But Jesus said, "The works that I do." Now, He never said, "I heal" anybody." If Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." Now, if Jesus wouldn't take the Name of a "Divine healer," what about some poor ignoramus like me or somebody else, anybody else would try to be a Divine healer? How can you be a Divine healer when It's already, everybody could be healed's already healed? You have to accept it, believe it. Now, is it truth? That's what we want to know. Is it truth?

L-244 Now, if you couldn't take my word, you'd just have to go, or your--I couldn't take your word, it'd have to go. But God's not that way. He sends gifts into the church, apostles. What is an apostle? A missionary. A missionary, is a word "missionary" means "one that's sent." An "apostle' means "one that's sent." A prophet, that's "a seer." A pastor, a teacher, evangelist, all those things, they rightly divide the Word of God, bring It down, and then the--the gifts of the Spirit to work in the church, to confirm the Word, to show that Jesus Christ lives in the church...

L-245 Now, we are all acquainted, this is just our church group. I don't know as there's any... I'm not here too much to know whether they're visitors or whether they're not visitors, and so forth. But, friends, today, you people that's sick now, if there was anything to do to help you, I'd do it. If I knowed that somebody here sick, especially this sister here I see on the cot, if I knowed there was something that I could do, like taking, push a quarter with my nose down around the city block, around, I'd do it. I'd get right out there and say, "Don't pull no umbrella over me, if it was raining, just let me push. I want to show God I'm sincere." Now, that wouldn't do any good. I've been in Africa, and know where they lay on spikes in India, and all kind of things, doing sacrifices to gods, and give their children to crocodiles, and everything else. That ain't; that--that's sincerity, but a man can sincerely take carbolic acid for medicine. See? See, you--you've got... The thing that's truth is what we want to know, and God testifies of His Truth. "He that believeth in Me, the works that I did shall he do." Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same..."

L-246 What would He be if you looked for Him today? If I tell you Christ is in me, Christ is in you, what can we look for? Would you look for a man with his collar turned around and something? No, no, He didn't act like that, He dressed like the rest of the people. If He had scars in His hand? Any man can make scars in his hand, prints of thorns. They've got dozens of them across the country now, impersonators, and blood and fire and smoke, everything. That ain't--that ain't the Word. "The works that I do..." Jesus said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do. They'll testify of Me. They're the ones who tells Who I am."


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