<TITLE>27. Par 102-106</TITLE>L-102 Now, let me say this one more time. If Jesus Christ, our Lord, was standing here today, just as I am standing, wearing this suit that He gave me, He could not heal you. How many knows that? He's already done it. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed."
Now, when He died, He made an atonement for healing. We all know that. If the old atonement had healing, this was a better one. He said in the old atonement... how much better. He said, "Thou shalt not kill." He had to kill, the act. But "Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause has killed already." The old covenant said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." This one said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart." See? It's a greater. So healing was lifted up also from the old to the new.

L-103 Now, notice close now. Then what would He do if He was standing here? The only thing He could do, would be prove that He was Jesus. Is that right? Now, what if somebody come up here with scars across their hands, and--and--and nail scars up here, or whatever it was, thorns, and... That could be any hypocrite. That's right.
But how do you know? He said, "By their fruit you shall know them." People speak with tongues, claim they have the Holy Ghost, then go out and lie and steal and cheat. They ain't got the Holy Ghost. I've seen witch doctors speak with tongues, lay a pencil down, and it run up and down the stove pipe, and play that "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits," come back down and write in unknown tongue, and a wizard stand there and interpret it, and tell them what they said. Now, you... Seen them drink human--drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil till the power would knock you down, and speak in tongues. No, no. You can impersonate anything. But the life is what counts.

L-104 Now, take the life that's in a grape vine, or in a peach tree, and put it in a apple tree, what kind of fruit would it have? If it was a peach tree life in a apple tree, it'd have peaches. Sure. By the fruit... Now, you put His Life here, then it will produce what He was. How did we find this week that they knowed He was the Messiah? Because that He was the Prophet that Moses spoke of. He showed them with His signs... And how we went through it... Now, He's still the same Christ today. You believe that?

L-105 Now, look. Now, remember, He promised that the Gentiles would receive the same thing, that same discernment that God did in a human body of flesh before Sodom burnt. Is that right? We all understand that now? See, look. If it's hard to understand, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it come." There's three classes of people: the Sodomites; and Lot, the lukewarm formal church, denominational church; and Abraham, the elected outside of Sodom... The church called out, and the church in Sodom...
Now, watch. It's not the time that's going to destroy with water. He said it will be... But it's the destroying of fire, which now is to be destroyed.

L-106 Look, they had a preacher, two of them to go down there, two Messengers, and preach in Sodom. And Abraham, the Messenger of the... Up here, the One that stayed behind done a miracle before Abraham by turning His back to the tent and asking Abraham, telling him what he was, and ask--telling his wife Sarah... (not S-a-r-a-i, but S-a-r-a-h, which just before that had changed their name from his, Abram, to Abraham, and called him Abraham, and her Sarah), and said, "Where is Sarah?"
And she... He said, "In the tent behind You." He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." And Sarah laughed within herself. And the Angel Messenger that Abraham said was God, said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying..."


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