<TITLE>19. Par 208-221</TITLE>L-208 That's where the outside can reason. You take a man, say, "Well, you know, I--I know I'm not supposed to commit adultery. But, you know, then the spirit tells me I shouldn't commit adultery. But, you see, way down in there is still that thing in there." See, it'll kinda govern around, and better watch it.

L-209 But when it's directed from the inside, it throws all the rest of it together. That's the guidepost. That's the control tower, the inside of the inside. The soul controls the spirit, the spirit controls the body.

L-210 So an outside whitewash don't make any difference. Them religious people back there, that Paul called "whited-walls," and so forth, they were (outward) just every way the... a believer, and they had prophesies among them, and everything else but the inside of the inside ("the soul that disbelieveth").

L-211 That's the reason I say people can jump up and down, and speak in tongues, people can shout, lay hands on the sick, and heal the sick and so forth, by faith; all these great things there by the Spirit, still be lost. Anointed ones.

L-212   Notice Jesus has said, "Only believe, for all things are possible to them that believe." Faith and works are husband and wife, they work together. The husband works with the wife, the wife with the husband; they identify one another.

L-213 Like a man says he's "married" and yet he can't produce and show that he has a wife, you doubt his claim. See? A man said, "I'm married."
"Where's your wife?"
"Oh, oh, I--I don't know about that." See? See? Be kinda hard thing for me to believe him.
I say, "Well, where is your wife?"
"Well, I don't know." I--I ain't going to believe it.

L-214 So, you see, if you have what you say you have, "I have faith." How you going to show me you got faith? By your work. See?
"I am married."
"How do I know you're married?"
"This is my wife." See? There you are.
"I am married, this is my husband."
"I am healed."
"How do you know?"

L-215   "My works shows my faith." See? See? Now, what--what you're speaking of: your faith is what God sees in you, your works is what the other people see in you.

L-216 That's for difference between James and Paul here, explaining about Abraham. They never contradicted one another, they was both the same; married.

L-217 So is faith that doesn't produce works, anyone has a right to doubt your testimony. Now do you hear it, before we start the prayer line? If your faith doesn't produce works with it, you can't make anyone believe that you're healed. Say, "Well, I don't know." See? "Why, yeah, sure, I got all the faith in the world." You don't. Because, if you are... got faith, then works is married to faith. They're husband and wife, one--one identifies the other one.

L-218   Let's think of Abraham for just a few minutes. Abraham got that holy union in complete, see, he got the whole thing together. He called things, contrary to his faith, as though it was not; and acted on the same principle. I can imagine, after about twenty years, somebody come by and said, "Father of nations? Huh! Abram, you said your name was 'Abraham,' which means father of nations. Just how many children do you have right now, Abraham?" See?

L-219 That didn't stumble him a bit. The Bible said, "He staggered not at the Word of God, through unbelief." He went right ahead making ready, keeping all the booties ready and the bird-eye and everything, he was "going to have the baby." That's all.

L-220   Even Sarah said, "You know what's going to happen? You're going to have the baby, but I tell you the way we're going to do it. Hagar now is my maid, I'm going to give her to you." Cause, polygamy was legal then. "And she'll have a baby, and I'll take the baby myself." But Abraham didn't believe that. Nope, he wouldn't do it. But Sarah was inspired to do it.

L-221 So, God told Abraham, "Go ahead and listen to her," but He said, "yet this is not what I promised you. This is not the way I promised it."


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