<TITLE>09. Par 87-98</TITLE>L-87   Again, the defense Witness wants to call the attention of the--of the Word that's in question here, that we have just read, that the prosecutor is trying to get a case of indictment against the Word. Defense Witness wants to call your attention, that it never set any certain time for deliverance. He never said when. He just said, "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." He didn't say they'd jump up right then. The Word doesn't say that. James 5:14 said, "When you're anointed with oil," he said, "the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up." It didn't say they'd jump up right then. It didn't say. Mark 16 didn't say they'll lay hands on the sick and there'll be a miracle performed. He just said, "They shall recover." It promised it.

L-88 Now, see if there's been some of these unbelievers has been misinterpreting the Word to you, saying, "Well, this one was prayed for. Why didn't they get up? I was at the meeting. I never seen nothing happen." See that interpreter they got? See what they're listening to?

L-89 The defense Witness wants to show to this court, this afternoon, that the Word didn't say they would jump up right then. He said, "They shall recover." That's what He promised. He never set any certain time. And that was only to believers.

L-90   And the defense Witness also wants to call to your attention here, this afternoon in this court, that the Word of God is said, by Jesus Christ, to be a Seed. And a seed can only grow when it falls into the fertile enough ground to quicken the seed. And if this Seed falls into a ground, and it's fertile with faith, it's got to quicken It. But if there's nothing there...

L-91 Just like if you wanted a blood transfusion. You went to a turnip, stuck a tube in yourself and in a turnip, how you going to get any blood? There's no blood there.

L-92 No more can the Word of God ever be quickened in an unbeliever's heart or a skeptic. It's got to fall into genuine faith that believes that heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall never fail, like Abraham, that called things which was not, as though they were; hoped against hope. He believed God.

L-93   Now we find that this defense Witness wants to call this to the attention, that the Word is a Seed that a sower sowed. It's written in the Scripture, that the Word is a Seed. And a seed must fall. And the Scripture says, "Some did fall on stony ground, and the birds of the air taken it away. Some fell just long enough to get enough roots to spring up, and the thorns and thistles choked it out. But some did go in good ground, and it brought forth a hundredfold." He wants to call your attention to that.

L-94 And He wants to say, that, "If this Word, in this Holy Ghost meeting, where people were having hands laid on, it only applies to believers. There is no promise in here but Eternal separation from God, to unbelievers. It's only to believers!"

L-95 Someone said to me, not long ago, said, "I don't care how much. I don't believe."

L-96 I said, "Certainly not. It's not for unbelievers. It's for believers, they that believe."

L-97   Now, the defense witnesses, defense Witness, rather, wishes to call a witness. He has a right to call witnesses, too. So the defense Witness wishes to call His first witness against this, and for the Word.

L-98 We're going to call Noah to the platform, this afternoon, before this court, to give testimony for the Defendant. Noah was just an ordinary farmer, but he was a prophet. "And the Word of the Lord comes to the prophets." The Bible said so. And Noah lived, wants to testify that he lived in a very scientific age, greater than the one we live in now. He lived in a time where they could build a pyramid, could build a sphinx, which we cannot do. We haven't the machinery to do it with. And Noah lived in a great time, and he lived in a scientific time.


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