<TITLE>14. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 It held. They went and put a rag around His face. Now, a man that had power to do these things... That's what's the trouble with our Pentecostal movement. Listen at me. I'm going to say something, not to hurt, but to cure. When a man comes to you that's got a gimmick that can answer every one of your questions, forget about it. Everybody can tell you every interpretation of dreams, can heal every sickness, can do all these things, and my, he's a man with something can do all things, that's contrary to the Word. He's got the answer to everything. It's contrary to the Word. You watch that.

L-51 That's what's the day today. It's men who gets all enthused, and go off on fleshly emotions, and put interpretations to things [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] when it's not interpretation. I've been so sick of it, crossing the nation and hearing these things. I--I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but tonight's the night I'm telling the way back, how to get back to the cure. That's exactly right. If a prophet prophesies, and that what he says comes not to pass, then don't believe him. That's right. "But if it does come to pass, believe him, 'cause it's Me that spoke," said the Lord.

L-52 Here was Jesus standing there. What a wonderful Example He was. What an example Paul was. There he had power to smite a man blind, heal the sick, call the cripples back to healing, all these things. And then, could you imagine the last part of his ministry, when he stood there and let the coppersmith stop his meeting and run him out of the country? I guess some of the critics says he lost his power to smite blind. No. No, he didn't have a gimmick; he had the Holy Ghost. He only minded God.
I guess then... He left his friend sick up there, Trophimus, up at a place sick, I guess he lost his power to heal. Also, he packed a doctor along with him, a Divine healer, packing a doctor with him, Luke. God was fixing to crown his ministry, 'cause Paul always wanted to suffer for what he done to Stephen. It was his desire.
Don't you know how the Holy Ghost spoke to him, and told him not to go up there to Jerusalem? He knowed he was going up to die for Jesus. That was his heart's desire, to die for Him.

L-53 Look at Jesus, that could heal the sick, and raise the dead, and do all these things, and foretell, and tell the people, and knowed the thoughts of their heart, setting in Pilate's courtyard there, with a rag wrapped around His eyes like this, and a Roman soldier, a bunch of them drunk, and their spit on His face, and the beard pulled out of His face, hitting Him on the head with a reed and then passing the reed one to the other, and said, "Say..." take the rag off, and said, "now tell us. You're a prophet. Tell us who hit you; we'll believe You." He never opened His mouth. Sure. He didn't have a gimmick; it was God.
"Pull your hands off the cross and come down, and we'll believe. Sincerely, we're the priests; we're God's servants. If you'll just prove it and come down off the cross, why, we'll--we'll know that you are the Son of God. You're our king. Come down off the cross, and we'll believe You." He never opened His mouth and said a Word.
Why? That bunch of hypocrites down there singing the very song that that same Spirit that was in David cried out back there. "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? They pierced My hands and My feet (the 22nd Psalm), they gambled for My vesture, and cast lots," and so forth, singing that same song down in there that David, through the Holy Spirit, cried out about eight hundred years before that, saying the same thing. And here He...?... groaned it, and didn't know it.


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