<TITLE>16. Par 145-151</TITLE>L-145 He said, "You destroy This Body, and I'll raise It up," 'cause He knowed He was the Messiah. "I'll not suffer My Holy One to see corruption"; He knowed He was the Holy One. "Neither will I leave His soul in hell"; He didn't. He knowed He'd do it. He had confidence that He was there to conquer both death and hell, said, "Destroy It, if you wish to, and I'll raise It back again in three days." Oh, my! "I have power to lay My life down, or I have power to take it up again"; He knowed Who He was.

L-146   You're a Christian. You have right to any redemptive blessing that Jesus died for you for. It's all yours! It's already paid for, you just have to believe it. Not imagine it; but believe it, and know that it's yours, and you can possess it. Oh, that's the conquering Faith: know! Yeah.

L-147 He knew it would happen before. He could predict that it would happen, because He knowed it would happen; and whatever He predicted, come to pass. Now, watch! Whatever He said, God honored what He said. Think of that! Whatever Jesus said, God brought It to pass. So, He knowed His Words were God's Words. Now, look! That same Scripture comes right back into us again, "If ye say to this mountain." Oh, my! I--I just let that soak just a little, you see, 'cause we're going to have a prayer line. We'll dismiss the congregation and pray for the sick, the ones that want to... has to go.

L-148   Look! He knew that He pleased God. He knew that there was nothing on His life. God had already testified, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased, hear Him! This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in," at the day of His baptism. "I'm pleased to make My abode in here, there's no condemnation to Him at all."

L-149 Now, when the same God comes to you, and is pleased to dwell in you, pleased to honor your word, what your decision is,... What was Joshua's decision? "Stand still, sun!" And it stood there. Amen! Sure! What was Moses' decision? Held his stick over the--a river like that, then called for it to "Open!" And it opened! See, whatever you ask. "And if you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt, see, in your heart, but believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you said." That puts you back in the Word. Now, that's not skim milk. See? It puts you back. I know it's going to jumps right over top of you, maybe, see, because It can't anchor. But real, genuine faith catches that, right now.

L-150   I've seen it, friend. Here's this Bible laying open before me. I've seen it happen, and I know it's the Truth. I know, God in Heaven knows, that I might not live through to finish this message, but I--I know that it happened. I've seen it myself. I'm a witness of that Word being fulfilled, that I know It is the Truth: say it, and stand there and see the Creator bring a living creature into existence, right in presence of your eyes; you shake your head and wonder; and then look around and seen Him bring another one, just exactly like it, because you said so; and turn over here and say, "There'll be another one there," and look, and there it is! Now, that's the truth.

L-151   Oh, where should we be? There's Perfect Faith. No vision, "Just speak the Word," never saw the squirrel. He just said this Scripture, what it was, and "Speak it, and don't doubt it; but what you say, it'll be there." And I took God at His Word, and it was there. That's right. That's just as powerful... And friend, as your pastor, that's just as powerful as it was when Joshua stopped the sun; because the sun was already there, the elements was moving, and he stopped the movement. But this, He brought something there that wasn't there, He created! I'm so glad to be acquainted with the God that can take the dust of the earth, some day, without anything, and call me back to life again, that same faith, after I been planted in the grave. Oh, my! There it is.
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,


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