<TITLE>23. Par 264-276</TITLE>L-264 I'm going to ask you to please be just as quiet, set still, just a minute longer. Now, we'll be out in five more minutes, if you just be real reverent.

L-265 Now, see, you, when you're disturbing, you're disturbing somebody.

L-266 I've got the whole thing under the control of the Holy Spirit. I must have it, in order to do this. God made the promise. It wasn't me. It was Him that made the promise.

L-267   Now, as far as I know, there is some people here that I know. There is some I do not know. I can actually see about, I suppose, about four people that I know. And one of them is Brother Williams here, and Brother Rose. I know them. And Mother Sharritt is setting over at the door. I, course, I know her. Here is Sister Williams setting here. I know her.

L-268 And this lady setting right here, about two rows in front of me here, she works at a dry goods store, and is a friend to the family. I don't know her name, but I believe she's a member of Brother Outlaw's church up there. I think that's right.

L-269 And then I see Brother Dauch and Sister Dauch, from Ohio, setting here. I heard Brother Sothmann, way back there somewhere, say "amen," a while ago. I watch. That's about all that I see and know in here.

L-270   How many of you that's sick, and knows that I do not know you, raise up your hands, that knows I know nothing about you, raise up your hand. All right. You just have faith now and believe.

L-271 Now, if I have told you the Truth, God is obligated to vindicate that Word to be the Truth. Is that right? It's right. Now, that will be the provided way then, according to what I've said tonight. That's God's provided way to tell you, "This is the Truth."

L-272   Because, anybody knows that it's totally impossible. It would be a miracle that science cannot explain. You can't explain a miracle. It's beyond explaining. And if God should speak in here, tonight, to one person that would know that I was a stranger to them, and tell them what they'd done, or what they ought not have done, or what they will do, or what they ought to do, or something, just like Jesus did when He was here on earth. He made Hisself known to the public that that was the Messiahic sign. How many knows that, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then, the church believes it. That's the only way. The people, when He did that, they...

L-273 The woman touched the hem of His garment. He turned around, said, "Who touched Me?" Physically, He didn't feel her, but it was her faith that did it.

L-274 Now, you can have that kind of faith if you will just pray and say, "Lord Jesus, take away every doubt from me. Take away my doubts, and let me believe this. I'm desperately in need. And I'm coming, tonight, for the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity."

L-275   Did you know, this sign, this miracle, has not been done in history since the death of the last apostle? That's right. I've just come through the--the... all the history books that I know of, Hislop's Babylons. I come through the Foxe's Book of the Martyrs. I come through the pre-Nicene fathers, the Nicaea Council, and the post-Nicaea. I come through all those books. Not one place have I seen it, in the history of Martin Luther, John Wesley, the first revival, the Welsh revival. They been crying, shouting, praising God, finally dropped into speaking in tongues. And then this was supposed to be the last sign. That was the last thing that Sodom saw before she burned.

L-276 And remember, He didn't reveal it to Sodom. He revealed it to Abraham, the chosen and elected. And the gift is not going to the worldly churches out here, if you notice. It's going to the elected Church. That's the ones that's being benefited by it. They're the ones that will receive it.


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