<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 I believe that Paul was very fundamental, Scriptural in everything that he did. Now, we all have to believe that because--to believe the Bible. God would not permitted this man to write the Bible, the--the books in the Bible that he did... I believe Paul of the New Testament was like Moses of the Old. And Paul was a missionary prophet to the Gentiles. Now, we're trusting that in this, that people will understand that Paul... Where I think that he received it, that...
You know Elijah one time, a great prophet of the Lord... A Shunammite woman lost her child, and so she came to Elijah and asked him about the child. And he said, "Take this staff," to Gehazi, his servant, "go lay it on the child." And I believe that that's what--where Paul got the idea of laying handkerchiefs. 'Cause Elijah knew that whatever he touched was blessed, if he could just get the woman to believe the same thing. But the woman's faith wasn't in what he touched; it was in the prophet.

L-6 Then we find out that in Paul's time they taken handkerchiefs and aprons... The people (greater faith) believed, and they laid these handkerchiefs and aprons upon the people, and evil spirits went out of them, and they were healed.
Now, we know Paul's been gone for a long time, but the Holy Spirit's still here. It's a... He's no respect of person, and He gives people favor amongst the people, ministers, to believe that that man, something about him that proves that God is with that pastor, and they believe that. And all full-Gospel, believing people take handkerchiefs, aprons, and so forth from their bodies and lay them upon the sick and the afflicted, and they get well. And we have greater success with that than anything yet that...

L-7 Here some time ago a little German woman... I send them out by the thousands, and she received one. And she had her neighbors to come in. She didn't have a pastor, so she had the neighbors come in and pray. And she confessed all of her faults. There's one thing you've got to do, is make things right with God, 'cause the affliction might be on you for that purpose, and so--to bring you to God. So confess all your sins. And when she did she laid it upon her.
She'd been crippled with arthritis for about twenty years. And she said, "All right, old man devil, now the works is done, so get away. Here I come." Got right up and walked away from the wheelchair--just that simple. See? Said, "All right, everything's complete now; the works was all finished, so just get up and walk away." That's the way we've got to believe it, just in that manner, just as simple as we can be.

L-8 We--the people today make the Gospel too complicated for people. See? That's always been the reason it goes over the head of the common people. And the Gospel was sent for all, but it's usually the common people that hears it. Luke said, "The common people heard Jesus gladly," the common people.
And so God makes it so simple He said in Isaiah, "Even a fool shouldn't err in the way." So we never want to make it complicated. It's simple, the simplicity of believing it, just having faith. Don't move from it. Stay right with it, and God takes care of the rest.

L-9 Now, last night I kept you late. I'm going to try tonight to pray for the sick, and I think Billy told me awhile ago that he give out a group of prayer cards to the people. The reason we do that is to keep them lined up, so who can come and who cannot. And each one gets a card can--may come to the platform. But anyone's ever been in the meeting know there's five healed in the audience while one's healed on the platform. It's always greater in the audience: faith.
Now, many people want you to lay hands upon them. That's perfectly all right. That's Scripture. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay hands on the sick they shall recover." Now, that's--that's God's Word, so we believe it. Now, but did you notice, that was kind of a Jewish custom. It wasn't so with the Gentiles.


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