<TITLE>03. Par 21-29</TITLE>L-21   Now, I think that's marvelous, and that gives illiterate people like me a chance, everybody, to believe it, because we hear it. "And faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God." Then we accept That, and believe That. And upon the basis of our faith in That, we are saved, healed. And whatevermore we draw from God, comes from an unseen Resource.

L-22 Christians; the whole armor of Christianity is faith. Everything that we have is unseen. The only things that's real is unseen, unexplained. The things that can be explained are not real. They're superficial and die. But the things that cannot be explained are immortal, the whole realm. Look at the armor of Christianity. Love, what part of you is love? Love, joy, faith, long-suffering, meekness, patient. See? None of those things, you can't see them. They're unseen, but yet we believe them. Love never dies. Faith is the--is the victory. We believe things that we don't see.

L-23   Now, in Jesus was God. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." And these people believed His testimony. And them that did truly believe it, could draw God's blessing from Him. And when they did so, He said, "Virtue went from Him." Virtue is "strength." He... In other words, if we'd say it today, he got weak when the people drawed off of Him. Well, if it worked that way in that human body, it'll work in another human body.

L-24 And we create our atmosphere around us, each one of us. You've been with people that were nice people, but you just couldn't hardly be around them. Then you've been with other people that you just love to be around them. You create that atmosphere. And, oh, wouldn't you loved to have been around Jesus just a little? Wonderful! See what that atmosphere He created would have been, I imagine it was just one great big bundle of love, and respects, and godly fear. Now, I have often heard people say...

L-25   Many of you, I guess, has already played the tape of that last vision up there, why I'm right here in Arizona now. And that was... Oh, my! If you get it, it's, What Time Is It, Sir? And if you get it, ever bought a tape from us, get that one. Now, they're not mine. They belong to another company that's with us, with the tape, and they're not mine. So, but, I know the boy has them.

L-26   And I never had anything like that to happen. Some of them say, "When you're in the Presence of God, why don't you ask Him this or that?" It's--it's different than what you... See, what many people calls the power of God, is only the blessings of God. The power of God is altogether different from the blessings of God. The power of God, in His Presence, you just don't know what to do. You just... You're--you're so... You're so scared till you're numb, all over.

L-27 There's two days, even in my back and the back of my head, and up-and-down my body, I couldn't feel, at all. And so just perfectly numbed, with such a fear, when that constellation of Angels standing right here, now, just stand, looking at Them like I am now.

L-28 And if you think that would be, "Oh, well"? No. If you're actually there and see it, it's different.

L-29   And now, the Lord Jesus, being Emmanuel, must have been tired. Virtue gone out of Him. And He had a big job ahead of Him, the day before, when He landed over on the other side, as we all know, 'cause He was going over into Gadara, and there is where He found this maniac. He thought, perhaps, when the ship was crossing the Galilee, which probably taken quite a little while, He just took the advantage of the opportunity to take a little rest. That's no more than--than natural, what anybody would do.


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