<TITLE>20. Par 220-231</TITLE>L-220 Let's close our eyes and sweetly sing it to Christ.
The dying thief rejoiced to see
That Fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.
Wash all my sins away,
Wash all my sins away;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

L-221   Oh, don't it make you feel all scrubbed out inside, just feel the sweetness of the Presence of God? "Now ye are the sons of God. Now we're lifted up in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus," with all authority, Heavens and earth given to us. Did you ever think of that?
Somebody says, "Have you got any power?"
"No, but I got authority."

L-222 It's like the little policeman standing out here in the street, little fellow with the cap pulled down over his ears, weigh about a hundred pounds, a badge sticking on him. And here comes a bunch of cars down the road, doing a hundred miles an hour; each one of them, four or five hundred horsepower. He couldn't stop a one of them. But let him hold up that hand. Uh-huh. He has got authority. That's what makes the brakes squeak. It ain't his power. It's his authority.

L-223 And we've got authority, by Jesus Christ. That's the reason devils scream. See? Not because we have power, but we have authority. The Holy Spirit is here, God's authority. "The works that I do, shall ye do also." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." I believe Him.

L-224   Now we're sitting in Heavenly places, in the Presence of Christ, lifted up above the cares of the world, into a realm of faith. What could happen here tonight? There could be another Pentecost. There could be such a thing happen right here, tonight, like it was in Acts 2. That's right.

L-225 Christ is here. If we could get the hardness of our hearts away! Is He with us? Is it true? Is Christ in our midst? He promised to be. How would you know Him? Not by the way He looked, but by the works He done. That's what He promised, and He said He would do it.

L-226 God, help us tonight, that when we leave here, my prayer is... And I'll just say it with my eyes open, to you people. I pray that you will see something so real, that God will do something so real, tonight, until you will say like those who came from Emmaus, as you go to your homes, "Did not our hearts burn within us?" See, they were...

L-227   Jesus had been crucified, and dead, buried, a rumor had been He had raised again, and He walked with them all day and they didn't know Him. He has walked with many people, they didn't know it. That's Who kept him from having that wreck coming over here; that's what heals your baby; Christ, and maybe you didn't recognize it.

L-228 But one night He got them at Emmaus, Cleopas and his friend, and they shut the doors, then He done something just the way He did it before His crucifixion. They know it was Him, in His resurrection. Quickly they went to tell others.

L-229 May He do something tonight, like He did before His crucifixion, to us; that we, when we go from Emmaus, that we might tell the others, "Our hearts burned within us." May we see something real, not so much of some new doctrine or something; but the doctrine, that we know, made manifest by the power of God.

L-230   Last night I called a prayer line, come up, crippled lady and so forth, healed. Testimonies! Just amateur; we just got to be here a little bit, not enough hardly to know you. In there I could catch feelings of people, saying, "He is reading their mind." I tried to turn my back to the people and show you it wasn't reading mind.

L-231 Many of you old-timers here in Arkansas remember when I used to take hold of a person's hand, how He told me, "It'll come to pass then, that if you'll be sincere, you'll know the very secret of their heart." You remember that, all of you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] And the things that He has done, world around, everywhere!


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