<TITLE>09. Par 84-92</TITLE>L-84   Now I want to ask you something, as a brother. Isn't that about the attitude of the people today? We'll come to church here, and shout and praise God, when our brothers and so forth, speak the Word, and we can hear the promises. We just praise God for what He's done, listen at the testimony of that one saying, "I was once blind, my eyes were blind, now I see." One say, "The doctor had give me up, with cancer, and in two weeks, or two days, or some, there wasn't one speck of cancer. That's been a long time ago. They can't find no more yet." "I laid, bound up in a wheel chair, paralyzed; I walk as good as anybody else." We hear those testimonies.

L-85   But just like it, let it strike our little house one time, then we forget all about that glory that we've been enjoying, all those great things; oh, it's us now. See, those things happen for a purpose, they happen to try you. Now, trouble that we can't remedy, seems like the doctors can't remedy, and there is nothing can remedy.

L-86 They tried to pull their sails; it blew away. They tried their oars; they broke. They run to the middle of the ship; it filled up. See, Satan was determined to take them. Now he thought he had Jesus asleep, away from them, and then he could slip in on them.

L-87   Now that's the way it is today. When Satan gets a chance, here he comes. See? And you go to the doctor, he say, "There's nothing you can do; it's advanced. Who? We haven't got nothing for a nervous breakdown. We haven't got anything for mental troubles. No, we can't do nothing. Arthritis? No, we can't do nothing for that. We can maybe give you cortisone, and that'll kill you, so we haven't got nothing for it. Leukemia? Nothing we can do about it." See, then you get all trouble.

L-88 But, look back, hasn't He healed leukemia? Hasn't He healed cancer? Hasn't He done everything right? Hasn't He kept His Word? See, we get troubled when it strikes our little ship. This little bark that we're sailing in is frail, anyhow, gets filled up with doubts, world.

L-89   Notice, trouble that they could not remedy, then fear sets in, just like it is now. Even we got fears in national troubles. We got fears in church troubles. We got fears all around, everywhere. Now we say, "Well, now, what can we do about it?" If we could only remember that He is in the ship. See? You say, "But is..." Yes. "Is He in the ship?"

L-90 Here, This is Him, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the Word is "the same yesterday, today, and forever." It's still just take This! It is the remedy. It's the medicine. It's the cure for every breakdown. It's the--it's the cure for every cancer. It's the cure for every ailment. It's God manifested in a Word. "The Word is God." Jesus said, "It's a seed." The Seed being planted in the right kind of ground, it'll grow exactly what it is, and every promise will be produced. We forget all about it, know that He is in the ship.

L-91   They should have known that He knew that thing was going to happen. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Certainly, He knew it. He knew, all the time, it was going to happen. Why? He only did it to prove, to test their faith.

L-92 And sometimes He does the same thing for you and me, He lets things happen just to see what we'll do about it. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Scripture said that, "Every son that cometh to God must be tried, chastened, proved." Satan will make you prove every inch of ground that you claim; he certainly will. So, sometimes God lets those things happen.


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