<TITLE>06. Par 31-35</TITLE>L-31   And now we will call the Defense Witness to the Defendant. And the Defense Witness now is the Holy Spirit, now He comes and takes the stand for the Defendant. Now, the first thing He wants to call to the attention of this court, hallelujah, that the prosecutor is misinterpreting the Word to the people, just like he did to Eve at the beginning. Remember, he was her interpreter. God told what they should do, and there'd never be death, sorrow or nothing, and he come around and misinterpreted the Word. Therefore when man got from behind the Word of God, what does it make them? He is not defended by God. But, you see, Satan was the interpreter of the Word to Eve. She wouldn't listen to her husband and to God, but she took the prosecutor's interpretation of the Word. And he has no right to give an interpretation, and neither does any man have a right. God's His Own Interpreter. He doesn't need us; He keeps His Word, we believe. Now He wants to call your attention to that, that the same interpreter to the first Words of God that was spoke, is the prosecutor who's trying to--to bring indictment before this court this afternoon, of the same one, and he's misinterpreted the Word. That's the first thing the Defense Witness wants to say. Now, He wanted to bring this to your attention, that he was Eve's interpreter and he misinterpreted the Word.

L-32   First place, He wants to give you this idea, that the promise is only to believers; not make-believers, skeptics, or unbelievers. It's only for those that believe! Now He wants this court... the Defense Witness (the Holy Spirit) wants this court to realize that these promises are only for believers.
Then the cross question, he said, "These are believers!"

L-33 And now the Defense Witness Himself should know whether they are believers or not, because He is the One that quickens the promise. Now how you going to get a-past that? Got a lot... hot trial going on. How you going to get a-past that? The Holy Spirit should know, for He is the Life that's in the Word, He's the One that quickens the Word. Just like your spirit quickens your body, and the body is quickened by the spirit; without the spirit, the body is of no effect, the body's dead. And the Word is dead without the Spirit. It takes the Spirit to bring forth the Word, to make It live. And He is the Quickener of that Word, and He is the Defense Witness of the Defendant. Amen. How you going to get a-past that? I want this court to understand that very well, that He is the Quickener, He should know. He quickens the Word.

L-34   Again, He wants to call the attention of this court to the Word of promise that's in question. He never set any certain time for them to recover. He said, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up." He didn't say "right then." "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." He never said, "a day, month, year." He just said, "They shall!" The Defense Witness wants you to know that, that He didn't say there'd be a miracle performed. He just said, "They shall recover!" Interpret the Word right. "They shall recover." He never set any certain time. And, that is, if they are believers! If they are believers, it shall recover. "They'll lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover," whether it's now, a week, month, year, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. "They will recover," He said so! That is, if they can hold onto their believing. Now, that's the Defense Witness.

L-35 Another thing, the Defense Witness wants to call to this courts attention this afternoon that, also, the Word is a Seed, and the Seed has to fall in fertile soil in order to quicken it. The Seed will not grow on a rock. The Seed has to have fertility. And the Word has to fall in faith, which is the fertility that brings the Word to pass. Now the Defense Witness at this time...


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