<TITLE>16. Par 175-188</TITLE>L-175 Now, Father, I pray that You'll save the Seed of Abraham that's here tonight, fill them with the Holy Spirit of the precious promised Son. Immediately after this, God manifested in flesh did this sign, then the promised son came on the scene. God, we've been looking for Him for two thousand years, the Seed of Abraham. Many are sleeping; this is the seventh watch, we are looking for the cry to come at any time, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh."

L-176 Grant, tonight, Father, that people's understandings will be opened up, that they'll see that this sign was promised, just before the coming Son. Too, as the brass serpent typified Christ, so did the coming son and the sign of his coming (in the natural) typify the spiritual, of the coming Jesus today, the Royal Seed of Abraham. Grant it, Lord. We ask it in Jesus' Name, as we commit ourselves to You. Amen.

L-177   I would like to say one thing just before we pray for the sick. Many people have the wrong impression about a gift. A gift is not something that God gives you to go out and say, "Here, I'll go over here and pick out this, and I'll take that and I'll do this." That's not gifts. So many people think that, but they're wrongly impressed. A gift of God is just to know how to get yourself out of the way so God can use you, that's all a gift is. See? As long as you're in yourself...

L-178 Didn't Jesus say, Himself, "The Son can do..." Saint John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself." He passed by that pool where all them cripples was, and healed one man with prostrate trouble, or something (disease) retarded. He said "The Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." "It's not me," He said, "that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the Works."

L-179   Now, you people setting out there, don't you dare to look to any man. You look to Christ; He is the One. But He promised in the last days that He would manifest Himself in human flesh, like He did there at Sodom. Now your flesh, my flesh, let us just open our hearts and get our own thinking away, and just let the Word take Its course, tonight, in us, then we'll see God's great gifts of His Spirit manifested before us.

L-180 Be real reverent. Nobody leave. Keep real quiet and pray. I'm sure you appreciate.

L-181 And if there is anybody here thinks this is a hoax, I challenge you to come to the platform. Anybody! Then, if you're afraid to do it, don't say nothing about it.

L-182 In the Name of Jesus Christ, I take every spirit in here, under my control, to declare the Word of God.

L-183   Here is a picture tonight, like Saint John the 4th chapter. A man and a woman meet together, I suppose for the first time. I don't know you. You probably know me, by papers and--and hearsay, but I don't know you. You know that. We're strangers to each other, like our Lord met a woman one time at the well; a man and a woman meeting, talking.

L-184 But if I come like one of some of our brethren, would say, "God gave me a gift of healing,"...

L-185 You know what the gift of healing is? Faith in healing. See, you just release your faith, to pray for somebody, that's all a gift of healing is. Every minister should have it, everybody, see, should have gift of healing. The Power that heals you is on the inside of you, the Holy Spirit, you just have to let It work Its way out. That's all.

L-186   Just like the life that's in the tree. You don't have to pour the apples in the tree, to make it bear apples. It's just planted in the ground, and it drinks and pushes out.

L-187 Well, that's the way you do the Holy Spirit. It's on the inside of you. You just drink from the inexhaustible fountain of Jesus Christ, and It pushes out the fruits of the Spirit. See?

L-188 Now I'm standing here, not knowing you. God knows that. You're a total stranger.


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