<TITLE>19. Par 179-190</TITLE>L-179 Now here is (what?) the grace of God to bear record of what I said is the Truth, see. See, a man can say anything; unless God vindicates that, then it's wrong. Now you believe.

L-180 And I want you to believe me as His servant. I want you to say to God... You see, when He met me, He said, "If you get the people to believe you, and then be sincere."

L-181   And now if Jesus stood here, tonight, and if you were sick or needy, whatever, He could not heal you; He has already did it. But Jesus and the Word is the same. He is the Word. And He said, "Man should live by this Word," not by a creed. By the Word! "And He that believeth on Me," not make-believeth, but believeth, "the works that I do shall he also."

L-182 How could He perceive what was in their minds? How did He do it? And they thought He was reading their minds; and He told them He would forgive them for that, "But when the Holy Ghost come to do it, to speak against That would never be forgiven." Now we've been through it, right straight through the Bible, and find that God, if He identified Himself then as Messiah, by showing that He was the Prophet and the Word. Because, the Bible said, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword," Hebrews 4, "and Discerner of the thoughts that's in the heart." That's the reason they couldn't hide nothing from Him. And the things, that, that's how they knowed.

L-183   That's how the woman at the well knew that He was Messiah. She said, "Sir, I perceive You're a prophet. We know, when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us those things. That's what He'll do."
He said, "I am He."

L-184 She run in and said to the people, "Come, see a Man Who told me what--what I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And they believed it.

L-185 But somehow we don't, seem like the world don't want to believe it. But, God rich in mercy, it's a possibility that He might do it again. He has to identify Himself like that, the Messiah. He can't do it to the Samaritans and Jews, and then leave the Gentiles out. It's got to be done, so you pray and you touch the border of His garment.

L-186 And to the clergy. "He is the High Priest now that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." That is true, Hebrews 3.

L-187 "Now He is the High Priest," we all believe that, "that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Then His Life, His actions, His everything is the same. "A little while, and the world," kosmos, the order, "will not see Me no more," they'll never see it.

L-188   Remember the Angel that come down, in a form of a man, that talked to--to Abraham, the called-out, elected Church. He never went down in Sodom and done down there like those other fellows went down there and preached, like Billy Graham and them today, with that G-r-a-h-a-m again, like A-b-r-a-h-a-m. See? Each, watch, had their messenger. They've got it today, the same thing come. Go up here to the called-out Church, who wasn't in Babylon, and there is where that mysterious thing was done; when He told Sarah, when she was in the tent behind Him, what was wrong.

L-189 She laughed. And He said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying in her heart, that, 'These things can't be'?" And Abraham called her forth, and she tried to deny it. And He said...

L-190 Look, here is the grace. Here is--here is the possibility. God would have struck her dead, right there, but He couldn't; she is part of Abraham. For our unbelief He would strike us dead, but He can't; we are part of Christ. Grace holds us. See? But He still has to keep His Word.
Now you pray.


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