<TITLE>08. Par 66-74</TITLE>L-66 Now notice, Saint John... I mean First John 3:21. Notice.
... if our hearts condemn us not, then we have confidence towards God.

L-67 But as long as you're doing things that's wrong, you can't have confidence towards God. So, you see, you can... you'll automatically know that you're wrong. You automatically put yourself back there a sinner, by knowing that you're wrong. But when your heart don't condemn you, and you know you are a believer, and there's nothing between you and God, you can ask what you will and know that it'll be given, because it's the Word that's given to you just like it was to those disciples.

L-68   Now, the only thing you have to do then, is have faith in what you are. Have faith in what the Word says you are! And Jesus had faith in the Word of God, that said what He was, "It is written of Me." Didn't David, in the Psalms; and the prophets, and all of them speak of Him? "I am the Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven." Amen! "I am that Tree of Life from the garden of Eden. I am all these things, I AM THAT I AM." And He knew with that Perfect Faith, that He was the anointed Messiah, that the Spirit of God was upon Him. He said, "Now, I, in Myself, do nothing; but it's My faith in God." And God was in Him, the Word made manifest. And when the Word of God comes in you, It's made manifest, for you are a believer. See? And a believer is "the faith of God that moves in you."

L-69 You like that? I--I--I like when you... I like teaching of where the... how to... what faith really is.

L-70   Knowing Who He was, without a shadow of doubt, He knew He was the Son of God. He knew it, for the Word identified. The Word of God identified Who He was. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me; but if--if I don't do them works, don't believe Me. But if I do, then believe the works, for they are the manifested Word promised." Oh, if you could just wake up to that, a minute! You see, the Word Itself identified Him, Who He was. And He said, "Who can condemn Me of sin?" In other words, "Who can show Me that My life and My works don't fulfill exactly what Messiah should do?" Nobody could say nothing; for He was. Then He had faith to believe, then; of whatever He said, it would happen.

L-71 Then He turned around and said, "The works that I do, shall you also. A little while, and the world seeth no more; yet you shall, because I'll be with you, even in you. Take no thought what ye shall say, for it's not you that speak, it's thy Father that dwelleth in you; He's the One Who does the speaking. And It's not Me, It's the Father That dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." See what I mean?

L-72   Now, the identification of a Scripture Christian, these Words said Jesus: "These signs shall follow them that believe." Now, how can you call yourself a believer, a people, and deny those Words? How can you call yourself a believer and deny any of this Word? See? You can't do it. You're not a believer, therefore signs can't follow, because you just accept what you want to believe and let the rest of It... you won't--don't believe It. But you got to take the whole thing, and believe It. And when you truly believe (not make believe, but really believe), then these signs follow them that believe.

L-73 Oh, could you compare a Christian today with them Christians of long ago? How them disciples walked in the power of the Spirit, moved by the Holy Ghost, do it. Just a prisoner, as I preached on the other night, a prisoner to the Word and will of God; he couldn't even move until God moved him. Wouldn't you like to see a Church rise like that? It's going to; going back. It's--it's got to come. That's right. It's go-... It's on its road now, I believe.

L-74   For the Word identified, identified Himself, what He was; and the same Word identifies us. See? "If a man loves Me, he keeps My commandment. And if he says he loves Me, and keeps not My commandments (that's all of them), he's a liar, and the Truth's not even in him."


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