<TITLE>12. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 So they got... perhaps maybe brought all their theologians around, said, "Is this him? Is this him?"
John said, "No, none of them. God's refused them all. I don't know Who He is. But He told me what I would find."
"Well, looky here, what's wrong with this fellow?"
"I don't know. But I've got a certain sign that I've got to find."
And one day come walking down a little Man with no reputation, only a black dirty name behind Him, born a illegitimate child, so the people thought. Yes, come walking down there with a--with a man named Lazarus. John looked up (he was persistent all right), he said, "There He is; that's Him."
"How do you know?"
"He that told me to go baptize with water, said, 'Upon Whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending upon and remaining on, He's the one that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.'"
He watched for that sign of the Messiah. He was persistent. "How do you know it's Him?"
"I know it's Him."
"Why? Now, tell me. Find this... And go to this... school of learning. Where do you get this?"
"God told me so." He heard the voice of God and he knowed that it was Him.

L-41 This poor Greek woman (We'll have to hurry and get to her right quick), talk about her a few minutes. I imagine she had some difficults too. The first place, we find out that she heard of Him. That's the first thing to do. You have to hear of Him. She heard of Him. She heard of what? His fame, Who He was. No doubt some good person had scattered the news. And she had a child that was sick, and nothing could do it any good. It was possessed with, perhaps, epilepsy. It had a spirit that would probably going to kill her, be on her all of her life. She heard of others being healed.
Now, maybe somebody said, "Now, wait a minute. The first... You can't go to that group. He's a Jew. He belongs to another organization. You--you can't... He's from another group. You can't go to Him."

L-42 You know, somehow faith finds a source that others don't know nothing about. No matter how much they try to say, "Don't go," they go anyhow (See?), 'cause faith finds its source. Others don't see it. That's right. Now, she knowed His Word. And the Bible said in Hebrews the 4th chapter and the 12th verse, that, "the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, cutting even to the--the asunder of the--the soul, and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart." That's what the Word of God does. It discerns even the thoughts that's in your heart.
Listen. Faith is the hand that can yield that Sword. No other hand can do it, no ecclesiastical hand, no organizational hand, no group hands, no national hands. It takes the hand of faith to do it. And depends on how strong that hand is. You might cut enough away from you to see that you're--you're free from sin. Then if it's strong enough, you can cut into healing. You can cut into anything that God promises. It's all out there. As He told Joshua, "Everywhere the soles of your foot sets, that's possession." Depends on how strong that hand of faith is that yields that Sword of God's Word.


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