<TITLE>09. Par 97-113</TITLE>L-97   Like you're learning to swim, you know, you splash the water and go across the pool, and "huhhh, huhhh, huhhh, I made 'er!" Now, after you learn to swim, more graceful is the stroke, and it don't "wear you out" so much. See, that's it, you learn how to do it; and cut every corner and make it better, and that's more of a ease. See?

L-98 A little boy that never walked, would try to walk down this aisle here, he would fall down a dozen times and be "wore out" before he got there. But anyone who knows how to walk, an athlete, would walk right down that aisle and never even notice doing it. Well, he had that to start with, that's what he is now.

L-99   Well, that's the same way with preaching Divine healing or anything else. As you go along, you begin to learn. If you don't learn, there's something wrong. See, you've got to learn, and you've got to learn how to accept God and what it really means.

L-100 We allow it, sometimes say, "Well, this guy didn't have enough faith, this guy didn't do this and this. There's a reason there for that, there's a reason. Sometime it's unconfessed sin. You could pour a gallon of oil on a person, and scream till you got hoarse, it'll never move that devil. No, sir! You've got to confess that. That's what discernment does, say, "Go make that right, bring that out."

L-101 But it's so slow doing that, you see. And then--then the rest of them get impatient, and they say, "Ah, I never got prayed for." But we want to find a way now, that... what takes place, the real basic of Divine healing.

L-102   Now, a gift, just like I said last night, "A gift is wonderful, but you can't base your Eternal destination on gifts." You cannot major on a minor, and a--a gift is a minor. And Satan can impersonate any gift God's got, he can make something just exactly like it, see, exactly. Therefore, we got to watch that.

L-103 Like sometimes I express about shouting; I've seen demons shout, see. Speak in tongues, I've seen demons speak in tongues. Sure, he impersonates It. It isn't a genuine, but it impersonates It, you see, makes it look like it's real. And people sometime, who don't know the difference, declare this to be "real" when it isn't real.

L-104 And the same thing they do about Divine healing. They think, "Well, it's a hocus-pocus, or something like that." It isn't. It's a genuine, unadulterated faith in what God said to be the Truth. And that anchors! And when it anchors, there's nothing going to move it. It's going to stay there. And therefore, cutting these corners,...

L-105   Now, faith is "a revelation from God." Now, faith is a revelation. There's where I want to stay, there, just a moment. It's a revelation. He has revealed it to you by His grace. It's nothing you did. You didn't work yourself up into faith. You never have faith; it's give to you by the grace of God. And God reveals it to you, therefore faith is a revelation. And the whole Church of God is built upon the revelation.

L-106   A Baptist minister told me, not long ago, he said, "I just can't accept revelation."

L-107 I said, "Then you cannot accept the Bible. You cannot accept Christ, because He is the Revelation of God. He's God revealed in flesh." Therefore, the whole Church is built upon Divine revelation.

L-108 Jesus said to (I believe it was Peter)... said, He said, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"

L-109 He was talking to His disciples. "And some said You're 'Elias,' and 'Moses,' or 'One of the prophets,' and 'Jeremiah.'"

L-110 He said, "But who do you say?"

L-111 He said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

L-112   Now, the Roman Catholic church says, "He was speaking to Peter, 'Upon this rock I'll build my Church.'"

L-113 The Protestants said, "He was building It upon Himself."


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