<TITLE>14. Par 130-142</TITLE>L-130 Well, there is something spiritual wrong with a man that'll take a creed instead of God's Word that's contrary to it.

L-131 At the day of the crucifixion, they desired Barabbas, a murderer, instead of the Word. And today they're taking the Council, a murderer of the Word, instead of taking the Word identified among us. The same thing. That's the trouble that we've got into.

L-132   Now His disciples get in trouble sometime, His disciples like those, of physical troubles that the doctors can't remedy. Maybe say, "You got cancer. It's advanced." Maybe you got advanced TB, some kind of a trouble. We, like them, forget Who is in the ship.

L-133 There was a storm on. Now, God created the winds. God created the air. God created the water. It's all His creation. He made it. But, you see, it was the Devil that got into it and whipped it up. That's what causes trouble, is the Devil. And now if He is a Creator, and made it thus in the beginning, shouldn't those disciples know that that Creator, laying right there, can make it stop? Amen!

L-134   God made you to be healthy. The Devil got in, don't you think he'll have to obey Him, the same as the wind? He made your body. He made you, a human being. He give you eyes and give you health. "I would, above all things, that you prosper in health." It's the Devil that gets in there. Right. The only thing He's ready to do tonight... He's been resting from other revivals, but He's ready to be called.

L-135 They should have known that He knew that was going to happen. He knowed all things. He knew it would happen. It was only proving, only proved to be only a test of their faith. I doubt Him even being asleep. He was just laying back there. He knew what was going to happen. Yeah, just waiting to see what they was going to do.

L-136   Hear them out there testifying, "Oh, glory to God, we're satisfied that's the Messiah. Oh, glory, hallelujah, we know it! That's the truth."
And say, "I'll just see. All right, Satan, turn loose now."

L-137 Looked out there, and, "Oh, all hopes is gone! Oh, we're going to perish! Boys, what can we do?" And the Creator Himself, they had been talking about, laying right there with them. Hallelujah!

L-138 The very God that give us the Holy Ghost, the very Holy Ghost that fell on Pentecost, right here with us tonight; amen, very One that raised the dead, healed the sick; the same yesterday, today, and forever, proving to us that He is here with us.

L-139   Maybe He let this slump come, call, come in here, just to find out what you'll do. That's the way He does it, to prove your faith, see what you'll do. Run away? Don't the Bible say, "All things will work together for good to them that love Him"?

L-140 He had thoroughly proved Who He was. He has thoroughly proved today Who He is, for He has proved just like He did then. He is still Messiah, still the same. He is still the Word, a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. He still discerns just like He always did. He still heals just like He always did. He still creates just like He always did. He still raises the dead, "I'm the resurrection and Life," just the same as He ever was. He proves it right among us, and right in our ship.

L-141 And then trouble sets in, and, "All hopes are gone." Yeah, isn't that--isn't that just like disciples? That's right.

L-142 He had proven Who He was, by the Word and signs. They had been thoroughly vindicated, that He was Who He was. He said, "If I don't do the works that's written of Me, then don't believe Me. But if I'm doing the works that's written of Me, then believe that I'm telling you the Truth about it." What a--what a... It's the same thing we have today. He said, "Search the Scriptures, They are They that testify of Me."


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