<TITLE>21. Par 237-247</TITLE>L-237 How can you bless what God has cursed? How can you tell people that they can live like this and do these things, and still maintain the fellowship of Jesus Christ? You cannot do it. You've got to be borned again and filled with the Holy Ghost. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]"... Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto your children, and them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That was the prescription. You don't want to tamper with that prescription.

L-238   A doctor can write out a formula to you. And you take that to some quack druggist, and he don't mix it right, you'll kill your patient.

L-239 And that's what's the matter today, you've adopted handshakes and everything else, instead of That. Come back! God let Peter write an Eternal prescription for salvation. It's never been changed, and It can't be changed. Shaking hands and joining church, and things, will never take Its place. It's got to come back, Word by Word, the way It's wrote There. That's the prescription they used all the rest the way through the Bible. They used it on up to the Nicaea Council, and then they changed the prescription. That's the reason we got so many dead members today. Truly. You've got to get the real prescription. Then know, if it hit the target there, it'll hit the target now, "It's for you and to your children, and them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Don't adopt anything to It. Don't add any more to It. If you put any more to It...

L-240   Remember, a prescription is just enough antidote in there to take the disease, and enough to kill enough of the--the medicine for the patient. And if you don't, you put too much of the--of the antidote in it, or something another that won't work, weaken it down too much, it won't help the patient. You put too much of the poison in, it'll kill the patient. It's got to be just right.

L-241 And He wrote a Eternal prescription, for it's for every generation. Not shake hands, join church, and all these other things. He said, "Repent, and then be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. It's promised to you and your children."

L-242 They took that prescription and fulfilled it at God's great counter. And when they did, on the Day of Pentecost, they healed the sick, they done everything that there was to be done; 'cause it was God, Christ in them. All right.

L-243   Micaiah knew that that was the Word of the Lord, because it was exactly what the--the Bible, the real Prophet, said. God had cursed that man and cursed his wife, because of their evil. And if (they) He had cursed it, how could these men come around and bless it?

L-244 Here is where they got their idea. The land belongs to them. It actually was given to them. But their sins had drove them away from it. So they thought, because the land belonged to them, that that was all they had to have. No, sir.

L-245 It's on conditions. Absolutely. You can have Divine healing, you can have salvation, you can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but that's on conditions, that you meet God's conditions. Outside of that, it's not for nobody but believers.

L-246   A man said to me, not long ago, a minister, he said, "I don't care if you would raise and have doctors' statements of raising the dead, and everything else," said, "I don't believe it."
I said, "Certainly not, it's not for unbelievers."

L-247 It's only to believers. It wasn't given to unbelievers. It's only sent to believers. That's all it's for, is for believers, not unbelievers. Certainly, they admit there what--what's wrong.


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