<TITLE>04. Par 28-36</TITLE>L-28 Like a--an automobile with no gasoline in it, with no firing power, see. No matter how fine the dynamics, or I mean... the mechanics is fixed up, the cylinders, the... and the--the points and plugs, and whatevermore, it's got to have the current also. You got to take those together.

L-29 That's the way God is. It's got to get a believer with God, to make the contact, then something is going to happen.

L-30   So Divine healing is just like salvation. No man that preaches the Gospel of salvation for your soul would want to be called a Divine Saviour, but he would be just as much a Divine Saviour as any man would be preaching Divine healing would be a Divine healer. Because, the man cannot say he could save a person, 'cause Jesus has already did that. See? All right. But, by his preaching, he points them to Christ Who is the Saviour.

L-31 Divine healing only points them to the finished work of Calvary, "For He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." See? See? Divine healing is not something that some man has got, that he can place upon you. It's what your faith is in a finished work.

L-32   If Jesus stood here tonight with this suit on, that He gave me, He could not heal you. He would just... He--He could might... You might know that it was Jesus; but He could not heal you, because He has already done it. See, you would have to believe it. Now He would say, "My child, you know not that by My stripes you were healed?" See, He has already done it. It's already a finished work. It's a past tense. We just believe it now. And, to me, the Word would be sufficient. If you told somebody something, they didn't want to believe it, well, that--that would settle it, let them go ahead and not believe it. But that's not God, see.

L-33   It's just like a little song I used to hear a minister and his wife sing, "Not as mortals forgive one another. Jesus forgives and forgets." See? We can't forget it, see, but He can. He is God. He can forget it; it never was. Put it in the Sea of Forgetfulness, and not even remember it. He is God. He can take it from His complete memory. But we can't do that, see. He can.

L-34 Now when you believe Him, that He has did this for you, "He healed you when He--when He was wounded for your transgressions, and with His stripes you were healed," past tense. Now the only thing you have to do is to believe it. Now the Word teaches it. No one can say the Word doesn't teach it. And It does teach it, now, and we see so much evidence of people being healed everywhere. But there is Divine healing.

L-35   Now if it would be you or I, if we sent our word, and sovereign like God, well, if people didn't want to believe it, they wouldn't have to; after all, it's them sick. But not God.

L-36 He also set in the Church, apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists, see, all that for the perfecting of the Body. And in this Body, every local body, He gave nine spiritual gifts, and those gifts are--are different kinds; wisdom, knowledge, speaking in tongues, gifts of healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth; nine spiritual gifts, all to show His love towards the Church, see, that He wants you to stay in order, the great Holy Spirit Himself being the Tutor of the Church. It's too bad we took a bishop instead of the Holy Spirit, to be our tutor, see. But we--we... The Holy Spirit is the Tutor that God gave to the Church, to raise the Church, to bring it up in the admonition of God. So the Holy Spirit freely sets these gifts in the Church, and they perfectly operate, if you just won't get excited and try to just take what you think yourself.


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