<TITLE>18. Par 205-212</TITLE>L-205 Just like the word predestinate, it's a bad word. I used it a few minutes ago, and I caught myself, 'cause I felt the spirit move back. Many people don't believe in predestination. Predestination is a bad word. It's really foreknowledge. God knows, before, who will and who won't, so therefore He can predestinate by His foreknowledge. That's the reason He knows who will and who won't. See? He don't... He, "He's not willing that any should perish." But He knows who will perish. If He wasn't, then He wasn't God. He has to be omnipotent just the same as--as omnipresent; see, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite. He's infinite. If He isn't, He isn't God. So He knows all things, therefore He can tell the end from the beginning, because He is the Word.

L-206   Now, I'm a total stranger. I don't see a person here I know, unless it's this boy right here. If I know this boy, didn't you used to have a big beard or something another, you wore, a long time ago? I kind of tell you about it, when I--I think that's who it is, the folks sitting on the front here. Outside of that, I don't see a person that I know. I can't see a one out there. I just happened to look. The boy set there, weeping, few minutes ago, wiping his eyes. I thought, "That looks like that same young fellow I had a private interview one time." And I don't know where he's even from. I just recognized his face. I haven't... See? But that's the only person that I know in here now. All right.

L-207 Now will you just open your heart like this? How many of you is needy of God? Raise up your hand, say, "I'm needy. I'm in need." I just don't know who you are. Just raise up your hand. And I saw.

L-208   Now may the God of Heaven, Who raised up His Son, Jesus Christ, Who by His written Word I am trying, by a Divine gift, to identify His Presence before these people, for their glory, may He send the Holy Spirit upon me. As, by this gift, I let myself loose, to be... to identify Jesus Christ in the human flesh, as God was identified in human flesh in the days of Sodom, fulfill His works. May He grant it in Jesus' Christ Name.

L-209 Now reverently, everybody, now just begin to pray in your heart, "Lord Jesus, I'm going to open my heart. And come in. And let me close off all my unbelief, on the outside. Then make it known to me, the thing that You did before Your crucifixion, then I'll know You've raised from the dead."

L-210   Now It can't catch every one of you. That's exactly right. But some of you, no doubt, that It will catch. And if It caught one, just like that woman out there, the rest of us (people at Sychar) didn't have to have it done to them. They believed it. And if somebody, just one woman, one man, one boy, one child, whoever it is, would be identified that way; if them people back there, who have never seen Him, and we been taught into it, surely we ought to believe. Is that right, brethren? Does that sound sensible to you all? [The ministers say, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure.

L-211 It's hard when you're preaching like that, then come... See, it's two different gifts. One is speaking; the other one is seeing.

L-212   Now you just believe with all your heart. Don't doubt. Don't doubt. Just have faith in God. Let's start looking on this side over here somewhere. Somebody just look. You'll have to stand around there, all kinds of belief. Don't press at it; see, you jump over the top of it. It's so. It's like a part of you. See? Just relax yourself, and say, "Well, sure, that's the Word. I believe It. That little, old fellow up there doesn't know me. But I know Jesus. He's told the Truth about the Word, and I believe it." Just do it like that, say, "I'm sick and needy, and I have need." I can't heal you, and this don't heal, but it only identifies.


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