<TITLE>05. Par 39-52</TITLE>L-39   That same God lives today. I know that that's true. And He's just as great today as He was then. If He ever was God, He is still God. But if He isn't God, then He never was God, because He's a God of the whole human race.

L-40 What good does it do to talk about a God of Abraham, if He isn't the same God today? What good would it do to talk about a God Who could open up the Red Sea, if He couldn't... for his children to escape, if He couldn't do the same thing today? What about a God that could raise a dead man out of the grave, if He can't do the same thing today?

L-41 What good does it do to give your canary bird fine seeds and vitamins, to grow good strong bones, and wings, and feathers, then keep him in a cage? How is he going to use them?
What good does it do to teach a Bible of some great God?

L-42 How can a man that's freezing get... Can he get warm by a painted fire? A man that's freezing to death, and you paint him a fire, and say, "There's what was." That ain't. It's got to be the... It's got to be some heat coming from it, to--to do him some good.

L-43 And there's got to be a reality in the new Birth, of being born again, filled with the Spirit, and knowing the Presence of God is here, and see Him carrying out His Word and His promise just as He did. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me."

L-44   May the Lord help us. I didn't aim to get off on that, but just talking. The Lord bless you now. And one of these nights, maybe, 'fore it's over, I'm going to maybe preach one night for you. I'm just going to.

L-45 I'm talking about Divine healing now because I want to see, waiting for the Lord maybe to do something. That'll...

L-46 You know, about eighty-six percent of Jesus' ministry was Divine healing. And we don't use Divine healing for a major. You can't major on a minor, we know that, and this great art of Divine healing.

L-47   I have just completed a study, the last four or five years, of the early Church. I started off with the Foxe's book of martyrs, come down through Hislop's Two Babylons, and so forth, and on down through the Nicaea, and the Post-Nicene and the Nicene Fathers, and Nicaea council, and finding out that after the death of Jesus Christ. Down through Polycarp, and Irenaeus and Martin, and many of those great saints, for hundreds of years after the death of Jesus Christ, contended for that Faith, of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and speaking with tongues, and raising the dead, and healing the sick. It was in the dark age this Thing was lost.

L-48 But, oh, God said, "I will restore," saith the Lord, "all the years the locust eat, and the caterpillar." He promised to do it, and this is the hour of restoration. The Tree shall bloom again. I believe it.

L-49   Lord bless you now. And in the Scripture, I want to take a familiar little text tonight, just to get you acquainted with what we are trying to do. You see, if you can...

L-50 If I could get this audience with one accord, to see and know exactly that Jesus Christ is alive and here among you! Oh, you psychically or mentally believe it. But when it can go beyond the mind, till you know it, then something will happen, see, when you can realize. The only thing is, is, to see Christ in our presence.

L-51   You know, in Durban, South Africa, where there was estimated, of twenty-five thousand wheel chairs, old box and carts, and they pull the people out of the jungles, weeks and weeks, coming through there. At one prayer, just a few words of prayer, and up off of there they went. And the next morning...

L-52 Sidney Smith, you can send him a telegram, write him a letter. He's the mayor of Durban, about twice, three times the size of Tucson. Yes, many times bigger than that. And we was at a race track where he had two hundred and fifty thousand people gathered.


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