<TITLE>08. Par 76-86</TITLE>L-76 Elijah could remember when he had done all he could do. He--he had rebuked all the--the women of that day, that tried to fashion after the first lady, the president's wife, and--and all those things that he--he had rebuked. And--and they called him an old, I guess, just an old, simple sort of a fellow. And he went, but done exactly what God told him to do. And then it come to a showdown, where he said, "Let's see which, these things, are right. Now, you call the prophets of--of Baalim up here, and--and you call his prophets. And let me call on the Lord." Oh, what a showdown, when he knowed His Word had promised it.

L-77   What could we say today as Christians, in the front of Buddhism, Mohammedanism, or anything else? "Let's see who is God." Amen.

L-78 Some time ago, down there in India, where we was at--at the meeting, and there there had been many people, but four or five come to the platform. And there was no way of estimating how many people were there. And I prayed for a little leper. He had no arms, and his ears was eat off, and little stubs. And he was trying to hug me, and I hugged him, and prayed with him. The Lord told me what was wrong with him, and--and about his life.

L-79 And--and I could see the Rajahs and those setting out there. They said, "That's telepathy, you see." You could--you could tell it, the way they was thinking, what they were--what they were going to put back to me.

L-80 That day, I'd been entertained in the temple of the Jains, where there was about seventeen different religions in there, and every one of them against Christianity, and, "There was nothing to Christianity."

L-81 But, that night, God changed the program. We got to reading off the menu, by His spring. So the Holy Spirit begin revealing. And after a bit, an Indian came by, and he was blind. I said, "The man is blind. We can all see that. But he's a married man. He has two sons." I said, "I'll spell their name. I--I can't pronounce it." And that was just exactly right. I--I could.

L-82   Them what they call holy men, and all of them out there, and them Mohammedan priests, and sitting out there. And so they--they knew then, they thought I was reading their mind, a telepathy.

L-83 And so I happened to look back, and this blind man, just a vision above, was standing there looking at me. Oh, my! You know, God's servant, the Holy Spirit, had already brought the... what the menu wrote, you know. I know it was ready to be served.

L-84 I said, "Now, they was telling me today that the Mohammedan religion is the greatest in the world, and the Buddhas, and all." I said, "Now, I want some of you priests out there, the Buddha priests, the Mohammedan priests, come give this man his sight, sure, now, if he--he is so great. This man is a worshipper of the sun. And we all know, we who believe that he was wrong, he worshipped the creation instead of the Creator." I said, "He was wrong, and we know that. But," I said, "surely the God that's the Creator; and the man is willing to come and serve that Creator; surely He's ready to manifest Hisself."

L-85   Now, I want to say something. I wouldn't have said that by no means if I hadn't have seen that vision. I knowed better than that. You see, that's what we don't want, to go presuming. Presume means "you're advancing without authority." That's why we want to watch when you say it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, not just an impression, but something you know definitely, positive, the Lord has said it. And I felt very consoled with seeing the vision, knowed it had never failed.

L-86 And I said, "Now, the--the... If this man is wrong... Now, the Mohammedans say he was wrong, and then you making a--a--a Mohammedan. Then, Buddha would say he was wrong. And the Sikhs, and the Jains, and whatmore, they'd all say he's wrong. But surely there's a Right somewhere." Oh, my! Oh, what a glorious thing! Then I said, "Now, the One that will give him his sight, he promised he would serve that God."


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