<TITLE>18. Par 170-184</TITLE>L-170   Listen at Peter standing up there. They begin to ask, "Is there any more balm in Gilead? Is there any more balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" Oh, yeah, we got plenty of balm in Gilead. We got plenty of physicians.

L-171 In that day, Doctor Simon Peter, he was the physician. He said, "I'm going to write you a prescription. I'm going to tell you. And this is an Eternal prescription, because it's going to be for you, and for your children, and for them that's far off. Frankly, it's for every one who will call upon, the Lord thy God shall call upon, 'I'm going to give it to him.'"

L-172 Said, "What can we do to get inoculated?" There is where she lays. "What can we do to be inoculated?"

L-173 He said, "I'll write the prescription." He said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For this prescription is to you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Oh, my!

L-174   You know what? When a doctor finds a remedy for a disease; and he writes out a prescription, and some quack druggist gets a hold of it and goes to adding a little of this and taking a little of this out of it, he'll either kill the patient or--or do something to it. The prescription doesn't even have any enough medicine in it to do any good. If it don't, it's so weak you won't help the patient.

L-175 And that's what's the matter with a lot of these seminary druggists today. They take the prescription out, and add something else instead of It, and you got a bunch of dying morgues.

L-176   This prescription still remains the same. When the Samaritans received It, they get inoculated, they had the same thing. When the Gentiles received It, they got the same prescription. Paul met a bunch in Acts 19, who had part of the prescription, not all of It, he said, "That won't work. You're going to kill the whole thing." So he wrote it over, for them, told them how to get it. They got it the same way.

L-177 And that's what's the matter today. There is plenty of balm in Gilead, and we got plenty of physicians, but the people are afraid of the prescription. Glory! Praise be to God. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no power of the Holy Spirit? Now is there?

L-178 This inoculation works on all, see. It did on the Jews. It did on the Samaritans. It did on the Gentiles. It does on everybody the same way.

L-179   I'm a missionary. I go over into the land where the people there that don't even know which is right and left hand, and they stand there. You know what they do when they receive the Holy Ghost? Same thing you do, same thing.

L-180 Oh, what is it? "It's for you, and for your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." This same prescription works the same thing.

L-181 And the church will do the same thing it did at the beginning. Exactly right. Jesus is the vine. We are the branches, and by being inoculated by that Life that was in the vine. The church that went out, inoculated, they wrote a Book of Acts behind it.

L-182 Now we got some substitutes. We got some grafted fruits. It--it lives off of the life of the tree, but it won't bear the fruits. That's right.

L-183   I was standing with a friend of mine, John Sharrit, over in Phoenix, here not long ago. He had a tree there, an orange tree, that had about five or six different kinds of fruit on it.
I said, "I never seen a thing like that."
He said, "They're grafted."
I said, "What kind of a tree?"
He said, "Orange."

L-184 I said, "Well, there is lemon, and there is lime, and there is tangerines, and tangelos, and--and grapefruit, many different kinds." I said, "And all of them is raised off of that same tree?"
He said, "Yeah, it's all citrus fruit."


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