<TITLE>15. Par 157-170</TITLE>L-157   Now, if you just look upon it, say, "I got a little crucifix hanging in my car. I got one at my home, a cross." That's all right. But that ain't what it is. That's not what He's talking about.

L-158 You got to see that God knows that you are a sinner. And that you have confessed your sins, and God put your iniquity upon Him, upon Hisself, and become a man. He crossed His strain, and come down from being God, to be man, that He might die in your stead, to give Hisself for you. And you confessed your sin. And not a manufactured Clorox. But a--a power of God that was made Blood, that He might take away your sinful blood by sexual desire, and make you a free man and woman of God. There you are.

L-159 What you looking at? You say, "Oh, I belong to the Assemblies of God. I belong to the United Pentecostal. I belong to the Methodist, the Baptist." You're still focusing yourself away.

L-160 Focus yourself in on Jesus Christ. Amen. Hear the answer come back, "All thy sins, which are many, are all forgiven." Be per-...

L-161   Be persistent, like the little Syrophenician woman. No matter how many disappointments she had, as she come down, she still had focused herself on, that that was God. And she come to Him and got what she asked for, because she had her focus right. She had it, no matter how many puffs of wind come, and saying, "The days of miracles is passed. Your husband will leave you." That didn't bother her a bit. That bullet went straight to its point. Amen. We can focus on...

L-162 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... time. Then we're looking for Him to come, that's the one is going. Oh, my! See, you got to get the purpose. You've got to get to know what is.

L-163   Look at the sheep-gate. There was people. God has always had a way for man to look for salvation. That brass serpent, the people had to look at it. That's right. And at the sheep-gate, they had to look at it. Them people set there.

L-164 Let's think it was a hospital. There were many sick and afflicted. There was thousands, multitudes laid there, like a hospital today. Tender hands of their loved ones waited on them, just exactly like they would in a hospital today.

L-165 They were waiting. Their eyes were watching that water. There was five porches where the sheep-gate was. At the... It's outside of Jerusalem, and there, or this gate. And then when he come in, he watched. There had to be something supernatural happening. And as soon as that supernatural happened, they made a rush for it.

L-166 Look at the church today. God wants us to watch for the supernatural when His Word is made manifest and vindicated. Now we run away from it because it's not connected with our organizations. See?

L-167   At the sheep-gate, they watched for the supernatural moving. God has always moved through His people, through supernatural vindication of His promise. He promised He would do it. When they seen that promise begin to move, in a supernatural, they jumped right into it and took it.

L-168 Today, even now, the Holy Spirit, the supernatural power of God, is in the earth, moving, showing things. And people run from It, instead of getting into It, the Word made flesh and vindicated, the very things that He did and promised that we would do, does the same things. And if It isn't connected with our groups, we have nothing to do with It. That's right.

L-169   Jesus went and found one person in the entire church. You say, "Does God heal all?" No, sir.

L-170 And the Pentecostal brethren, let me drop this to you. You're looking for a time to come that when there's going to be men rise up on the earth, and go out in hospitals and deliver them, and say the whole hospital move out. Don't you never be deceived like that. You believe me. You believe that's a lie. It never was done. When Jesus...


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