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E-1 His songs, they wouldn't buy them, they... And one day after being persecuted, fell down in his seat by his desk, and penned the inauguration song of the second coming of the Lord Jesus, when he wrote,
All hail the pow'r of Jesus' Name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown Him Lord of all.
And what a marvelous song. How that these poets and authors being inspired by God wrote this. William Cowper wrote.
There is a fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
When sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stain.
The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
There may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.
My, won't that be marvelous? I like this part of it.
E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing Thy power to save,
When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.
E-2 My. Jesus, when He was here on earth, quoted the songs of David. How David, under the inspiration wrote the songs, which was prophecy. E-3 One night I was having a meeting in my Tabernacle, and they was having a New Year's night watch in the Tabernacle. And I was teaching on the second coming Of Christ. And I had a blackboard up there, and I was drawing it all out the best that I knew how. How He would--would--He would descend that we may ascend into glory. And there was (I give a little intermission), and they was singing some songs while I was resting, for I had had about four and a half hours of teaching, straight. And they were singing a special. And they was some people come from Louisville, which was Full Gospel people. And they said they had a special. Some young ladies wanted to beat some little tin cans and things, and they had a washboard with some thimbles on it, or on their fingers. They was playing on this washboard, I guess you seen the hookup. And one was going to play the piano. And they started playing that song, "There's going to be a meeting in the air, in the sweet, sweet by and by. God's own Son will be the leading One at that meeting in the air." Oh, my.
E-4 That little lady turned real white around the mouth and begin to beat that piano. I believe if they'd have been three decks of keys, she'd played them every one. I never seen such playing in my life, and that lady on that washboard a hitting them thimbles. And a little blond headed sister about so high, jumped out in the floor, and started dancing.
E-5 So, I looked around and I thought, "My, where did dancing ever come from?" And I was setting there in the seat of the scornful, of course, you know, so... Not saying nothing. I was afraid to say anything, 'cause I was afraid they might be right and me wrong. So I--I just let it go like that. So I thought, "Now, isn't that terrible though, right here in my Tabernacle?" And this little lady out there, just with her eyes closed, just dancing around... First thing you know, up got another one and started. And I thought, "Oh, my."
E-6 And I read where David, when the Ark had been away so long, and when he returned back, why, he was so happy he started dancing. He had the victory. His sweetheart made fun of him, kinda laughed at him. He said, "Well, you don't like that, watch this." And down there he went, around and around he went again. And I thought, "Well, she set up there and laughed at him, and God put a curse on her. And said, 'David, thou art a man after My own heart.'"
E-7 So God's in music. Don't you believe God's in music? Certainly. God is in music, and He's in art; And--and God is in the--in the universe. He's in His creatures, and He's in the church, and He's in His creation; He's in the universe; God's all around, just everywhere. He's here in the Shriner auditorium right now at this night, right present. God's everywhere. I just wonder sometime if He'd just take the shades off of our eyes, till our sight would be fast enough to catch His Presence in the building.
E-8 Now, we want to talk a little bit tonight on the Scripture over in Numbers the 19th chapter. I wish to read just a little of the Word before we call the prayer line. And each night, this is something different trying to have a little miniature sermon, as it was, or talking, before the service. Usually, the floor man, manager, or some of them, have the services, and I just come in and pray for the sick.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,This is an ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer with--without a spot, wherein... no blemish, and upon which never came a yoke:And you shall bring her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and shall strike--sprinkle it (rather)... the blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
Now, in the 9th verse to save time from reading.
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification from sin.
May the Lord add His blessings to the Word.
E-9 Now, we're speaking tonight upon Christ. That's all I know. Here sometime ago (or all I want to know, rather)... I was with my boy, and I--we was at Wood River, Illinois. And I'd just come out of the service, been there a few nights; had a marvelous audience, several thousands of people gathered. And the Lord was working, saving the people. And He was making the sick well, and just how the Lord does in His mercy.
E-10 I just hate to eat in a place where that kind of stuff's going on. I don't... My food don't do me any good. So somebody put in some kind of a--a piece on there, and they were playing it, and I was eating away. E-11 Someone said, "You brag too much on Him." No, I can't. No. He's worthy of more bragging and exalting than any human being could ever give Him. Mortal lips could never express Him, of the gratitude or the thankfulness that we have for Him. E-12 All the Old Testament, being--all the ordinances of the Old Testament being a shadow of the New, therefore, not being educated, and I just more as a typologist... I--I am not a--a scholar. So I, knowing that I have some way of not knowing how to pronounce the big Greek and Hebrew words like the brothers do that knows these things, I just take all the old things as a type or a shadow. And if I see what a shadow of anything looks like, I have a pretty good idea what the real thing's going to look like when it gets there.
E-13 If the--if I see my shadow on the wall, I can pretty near tell what I'm going to look like when the negative and positive comes together. So all the Old Testament was a shadow of the New.
E-14 We're in our pilgrimage now, wondering through the wilderness, in our different stations, as the children of Israel journeyed also. Now, and as they went, they was given an Angel to guide them, or to bring them into the place that God had promised. That Angel was seen by their natural eye, which was a Pillar of Fire that led them through the wilderness. God's given us the same Pillar of Fire, which is nothing else in the world, that... Who? What was that Pillar of Fire? What was that Angel? Any scholar here, any of these brethren, or you learned men out there knows that the Angel of the Covenant was Christ Himself. Sure it was.
E-15 Now, out here, to make a way of approach to Christ, God was giving to them a water of separation, that a believer on his journey, out of fellowship, might have a way of approach again into fellowship. And this is the type that we read of here in the Scriptures.
E-16 Oh, would we just love to get together for a complete winter's vacation sometime, and just take the Old Testament and just teach it, all those little things. I tell you, we would--we'd have a marvelous time. Just stay right with the Word, teaching it, and showing the types and so forth, bringing out those old nuggets and shining them up, just to see how--what they really are...
E-17 Did you notice? Abel, when he offered the more excellent sacrifice (in which God testified that he was righteous), Abel slew his lamb on the rock, and Abel died on the same rock with his lamb. E-18 Now, the red--the red to us is a color of danger. But red also is a color of redemption. Redemption comes through Blood. And God's testified that Blood is, was, and always will be the only resource of redemption. All the way from Eden, all the way through the Scripture, it's the Blood. Without the shedding of Blood, there's no remission of sin. How that in the Blood...
E-19 Here no long ago in a famous, great, denominational church, they'd took the hymn books and said, "We're going to take all the hymns out of it that pertains to the blood. We don't want a slaughterhouse religion." E-20 A hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch, because it--it's not fertile. It has not the blood cell. The hen produces the egg, but it won't hatch. The old mother bird will produce a nest full of eggs, and she can warm them, and hover them, and stay on the nest till she's so poor she can't even fly off the nest. And if she hasn't been with the male bird, they'll never hatch. They can't hatch. They got nothing in them to hatch with. E-21 That's just about like some of our old, cold, formal churches. That's right. Got a big nest full of eggs, just lay there and rot. That's all there is to it. Never been with the Male; don't know what the Holy Ghost is. You'll never make them believe Divine healing; they can't. They just lay there and rot. That's right. What we need today is a nest cleaning, and start over again, I think. Then a revival will mean something. Amen. I don't say that for a joke, because it's not a joke. This is no place to joke, up here. What's the matter with the pulpit today, we got too much Hollywood evangelism, just joking and carrying on which there's no Gospel to it.
E-22 Yes. But that, what I was meaning there, that the type of the bird in the nest, no matter... You can treat them right; you can visit them every day, and you can make them deacons of the church or anything, if there's no Life in here, he will still be a sinner. I don't care if he's a preacher, he's still a sinner. That's right. Well... man cannot be, see Christ until he's borned again. And he's borned through the water and the Blood.
E-23 That's how harlot Rahab's house stood on the walls of Jericho, when all the rest of it fell, because there was a scarlet thread down the outside. And God honored the scarlet streak. E-24 Notice. The heifer must be red. And red is a danger sign, yet, red is a redemption sign. And did you ever notice, our sins in the Bible, is represented as scarlet, red. Then why would red... Anything... As my mother used to say, the old saying, "The hair from the dog's back is good for the bite." E-25 When Christ, in the Old Testament was made in a form of a serpent... Why would the Lord Jesus Christ represent a serpent? Because it--the serpent represented sin, and Christ was made sin to take away sin. You see it? Made sin to take away sin. The serpent represented sin already judged in the garden of Eden. That's the serpent on the pole. E-26 And now, the--the scientific proof shows that if you take a red a piece of goods, or a red glass, and look at a piece of red, it doesn't look red. Red through red looks white. See it? Red through red... Then if Christ's red Blood... God looks through the Blood of Christ as red Blood, through us, as red sinners, it becomes white. Amen. So our sins are forgiven. When that Blood of Jesus Christ is once applied to the human heart, he's under the Blood and redeemed by the Lamb. "No more condemnation to them that's in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Romans 8:1.
E-27 Notice. The heifer must be a red one. And now, she must never have a yoke on her neck. Oh, that has a great meaning too. Wish we had time to go into all this, but we don't. But the yoke meant that Christ was not yoked up with anything on this earth. He was not yoked up with any affiliation or organization. He was free to move where the Lord moved Him. E-28 Oh, how wonderful those things are. Let's... Just let them soak down deep. And the more you let them come into you, the deeper it'll be, and the more rooted and grounded you'll be in the Lord Jesus. All those shadows and types (See?), that they all compiles together and comes right down to every individual believer in the world today. Just as free as it can be.
E-29 Now, and she was killed without the camp. And Eliezer had to watch the--her being killed. And then, when she was dead, he had to get the blood, and stripe it upon the door of the tabernacle, seven times, showing that it was a public testimony before the people that a innocent substitute had died for a guilty victim, a public testimony to everyone who passed that way knowed that they were coming under the blood of an innocent substitute of their sins. Then when she was to be burned, and her ashes was to be gathered up and put in a clean place outside (watch.), outside the tabernacle, in a clean place. A clean place, for it was a water of separation or purification from sin. E-30 For instance, a bear was here on the platform, and his head was way back, turned this a way, and his foot had me caught into the ribs here with his claws. There's no need of cutting the--the foot off, just knock him in the head. That takes care of the whole thing. See?
E-31 And when Christ died for sin, He died for every attribute of sin. "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed." Every attribute that He died for is yours.
E-32 I have nothing against insurance. But an agent not long ago, was trying to sell me insurance, and I said, "Aw." E-33 Now, if this ashes of the heifer was to be a water of separation, that was to separate the believer from his sins. Every man in his pilgrimage... And when he had did something wrong, he came to the waters of separation. And then, in this separation he was separated from his sin. There's a whole lot more goes with it, of course, how she was to be burnt with cedar, scarlet, hyssop, and those three elements. And how... The same elements used, cedar wood, not a Dogwood bush that represented the cross: cedar, red, speaking of redemption. But the cedar... The hyssop... The hyssop, like the killing of the two turtle doves under the running water... And the cedar and the hyssop all spoke of Christ and the cross, and so forth.
E-34 Under the Old Testament, when the Blood was put on the lintel of the door, it was put with a hyssop bush. Now, cedar can be hewed out, separated, chips this a way and that way, but hyssop was not separated anytime. It was a little bush that growed, just pull it up. And it was all together. And they took and dipped the blood in it, and sprinkled the--meaning that it was Christ Himself, the cedar and hyssop wood. Christ is inseparable. You can separate the cross and different things, and mean this, that, or the other, but Christ, you cannot separate. That's right. The whole bush has to be there.
E-35 Now, then a believer, coming now, that's out of fellowship, away from God, away from the main fellowship. What does he do? He comes to the outer courts first, unto this clean place where the water of separation was waiting for him, a type of the church today. And the waters of separation today is the Word.
E-36 Now, the people were the place in the courts, was a people like tonight. You come to the courts. We're in our journey. And the preaching of the Word is the water of separation. For God has took His church, and has washed it by the waters of separation to cleanse it for His own glory. And the Word separates.
E-37 When they were going to choose a man to take Saul's place, God told the prophet, "Take this horn of oil and go up and anoint one of Jesse's boys." So Jesse in the carnal way brought out his oldest son--great, big, wide shoulders, handsome-looking man. Said, "This is him, boy, he will be pretty king. I'll tell you, he will look nice with a crown setting on his head. What a wonderful fellow he will be with all of these scarlet robes. He's so big and handsome. What a nice looking fellow he will be with the... That's the one the Lord's chose." Samuel got his cruse of oil and run forth to anoint what the people thought was right. God said. "I've refused him."
E-38 So, I imagine they sang some hymns till they went and got little old David and brought him in, a ruddy little fellow, you know, just a little, bitty, old, dried-up looking fellow. They brought him in, and as soon as--as they brought him, I can imagine Jesse saying, "Well, that--that wouldn't work." And all the rest of them saying, "That wouldn't work."
E-39 So notice. When the man come for justification, he come to the waters of separation. Then, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God," the waters of separation.
E-40 Remember, you're in the courts now. But the next thing is to enter into the fellowship with the believers on the common ground of fellowship. And before they could enter through after the waters of separation had separated them from their sin, then they had to go through the public testimony of seven stripes of blood, showing that death went before them to pay the way. E-41 The only ground... Here it is, get it. Oh, I--I feel religious; I really do. Look, the only grounds that any believer can meet God on, is in the Blood: only ground, no other ground, only... In the Old Testament there was not another place anywhere that God would receive... They had to come to the tabernacle, and the tabernacle represented Christ. For in the temple the lamb was slayed, and the blood was shed. Only on the basis of shed Blood will God meet the believer. Amen. All your dry, cut theology will never please God till you come into the Blood of Jesus Christ. Amen. Pretty strong, but it'll do you good. Only in the Blood is the fellowship. E-42 Now, in the Blood of the Lord Jesus... God came down out of glory, brought Hisself into the womb of a woman. And there, God, the Creator, wrapped around Himself and created a Blood cell, the virgin not knowing any man. If you don't believe that, you're still in sin. She had nothing to do with a man. God, Himself... Christ was not a Jew. His Blood wasn't a Jew, neither was it a Gentile. It was God's Blood. The Blood cell come from the Male, and the Male was God. The Bible said we're saved through the Blood of God, no sex into it at all. There it is.
E-43 The Salvation Army used to sing a song: Oh, precious is the flow That makes me white as snow; No other fount I know, Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. E-44 God, Emmanuel, creating around Himself a Blood cell that brought forth the Son Jesus Christ. When He was born here on earth, He lived and was made fun of, called Beelzebub, spit upon, a shame, disgrace, went to Calvary. And there in the pocket of the heart, a cruel, Roman spear opened it up, and broke that Blood cell, no more housed up. Then it was brought, not a Blood cell in a house any more, but it was a spray of Blood, sprayed around. The Blood cell's been broken, that through that spray every believer that comes through the waters of the washing of the waters by the Word, it received justification by faith. He takes that same faith that he's got in God, and goes right into the Blood cell, not cased up no more, but pulls through the spray, and losing his sins comes into this fellowship back here the Holy Ghost, Itself, that was wrapped in that Blood cell, he by becomes a part of It. Then he can believe in Divine healing. For the very mind that was in Christ is in the believer. Do you see it? "For by one sacrifice (Hebrews 10), He has perfected forever those that are sanctified." God, bringing the believer by the washing of the water by the Word... "Faith cometh by hearing." That don't save you. It's by faith you're saved. Faith is just the purchasing power.
E-45 If I had a... If you wanted to buy a loaf of bread, and it cost a quarter, and I had the quarter, the quarter is not the loaf of bread. The quarter is the purchasing power of the loaf of bread.
E-46 You got an intellectual faith. Oh, you believe the Word, and you mix it and make it suit your theology. But once you come into the Kingdom of God through the Blood of the Lord Jesus, meeting upon the shed Blood, bought through the testimony, the public testimony of the crimson Blood of the Lord, you are in here in fellowship where God can bless you. And you can shout and praise the Lord, and the powers of God working. Why, it's God Himself, His own body, the mystical body of the Lord Jesus Christ here on earth operating upon the basis of the shed Blood. See what I mean?
E-47 And through the Blood you become a part of Him, into the same cell that He came out of. And the very Presence and part of God comes into you. By faith you purchase it. And that same Holy Spirit that was in the Lord Jesus Christ comes into you. And then you are sons and daughters of God, adopted by the Lord Jesus Christ into the Body of Christ. Amen. That'd make the Methodist shout.
E-48 Now, come meet Him upon those basis tonight. Come if you've just been a lukewarm church member. Don't leave your church; go back. Go back to your church and you'll be a better church member. You'll go back then with a knowledge of your heart. You say, "I can't believe Divine healing, I can't believe in the miraculous. Oh, I've seen this..." Oh, we got a lot of mockery, but we got the real Holy Spirit too. That's right. That's right.
E-49 Is that... You're not using your own thoughts; you're using His thoughts. "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you." See? Think His way of thinking; say what He says. "Confession" means "to say the same thing." Say... Confess is to confess the same thing, say the same thing. Then don't confess your own mental conception. Be borned again and confess His Word, confess what He said. That's confession. Say, "By His stripes, I was healed." By His stripes, I have a right--by His wounds, right now, I have a right for salvation. I have a right for the Holy Spirit. He promised it to me. Said, 'It's in you and your children, and them that is far off, and as many as the Lord our God shall call.'" E-50 Let's meet Christ now upon the basis, upon the promise of the shed Blood. Come into His Presence tonight through the shed Blood and say, "Lord Jesus, I've come to the waters of separation now. I believe it. I now accept it with all my heart, and I'm coming, Lord. Upon the basis of Thy shed Blood, I'm coming to meet Thee tonight."
E-51 I know that we're living in a dark, shadowy time, that when children's against parents. Divorce cases are on the move. And how, oh, immorals of the world... How the great bombs and things are hanging, ready for judgment. We've rejected mercy, so there's nothing left but Divine judgment. The world has refused the cross, and now they're getting a double cross through Communism. It's--it's--it's getting late, friends. It's later then you think. The sun's a going down.
E-52 Watch. If you'll notice the geographic closely now, 'fore we pray. Coming upon the basis, what was the apostles preaching? The Blood. What was the approach the apostles preached? The Blood. What was their slogan, what was the apostles creed? Not what we call. But the apostles went forward, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word with signs following. That was what they went forward with.
E-53 That's the light. Look. Civilization travels with the sun, from the east to the west. Now, this is an oriental Bible; it's an oriental Book. And when the sun shined yonder, just at the break of day, it begin at Pentecost, the great church, inaugurated. Great signs and wonders followed it. Then it's upon the basis of the shed Blood, with the Holy Ghost going forward, with great signs and wonders a following.
E-54 Look. In the Old Testament when an agreement was made, it was under the basis of the shed blood. Quickly now, listen. What did they do? In the oriental type they took an animal, and cut it, and killed it, and cut it in two. And they took it out here, after they'd torn it in two, torn the animal in two, and laid it out here. Each man got in there, and they wrote this agreement with each other. And they cut that, or tore it in two. One man took one piece, and the other piece was taken like this. And they made a vow over the dead body of this animal. If they failed to keep their covenant, may they be as this dead animal that they'd taken the covenant over. See? The promise was made through blood. The covenant was made through blood. See what I mean?
E-55 And the only way that God will ever receive a man is when he comes on the basis of the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ: with the same baptism of the Holy Ghost, with the same power, with the same signs, with the same wonders, with the same glory, with the same miracles, with just exactly like it was back there when He was tore apart... The Holy Ghost is here today putting in a church together, make the same kind of a church it was on the day of Pentecost on the basis of the shed Blood; God's covenant.
E-56 If today, if somebody could come around here and say, "I'll give you a little pill, and that'll absolutely inoculate you from every hydrogen bomb will ever fall. And you'll live here on earth for a ten thousand years, through the millenniums and every thing else, you'll live here through that." Why, you'd rush here (mercy) to get it. And tonight, if there was such a pill in the physical form, material form, it could be given. But I'm telling you tonight, that the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ will inoculate you from sin and death, and will preserve you forever in Christ Jesus through the ages to come. If you'll come upon the basis of the shed Blood. No death can bother you. God's promised to take care of you. "The footsteps of a righteous man is ordered of the Lord." It ain't whether you hang on or not; it's whether He hung on or not. It isn't what I do; it's what He's done for me.
E-57 While we pray, bow our heads, if you will. Are you the pianist, lady? Give us just a little cord, if you will. Everyone reverent, if you will, while we pray. E-58 While we have our heads bowed, every person that knows how to pray, praying. Is there someone here who has just belonged to church, but you're convinced tonight that you really need to come in on the basis of the Blood, tender up that hard heart of yours; that selfish, arguing spirit, fussing, yet calling yourself a Christian. You really never received something that takes that all out of you. You've heard the Word; you've believed it. Now, by that Word purchase by faith the Lord Jesus. May be the last meeting you'll ever attend. May be your last opportunity. I hope not, but I hope you take advantage of this opportunity.
E-59 Someone on the bottom floor, I want you to do this now, not to me, but to God. Raise up your hand, and say (when in doing so), saying, "Lord, I come." Thank you, honey. A little lady setting here raises her hand. "I come, Lord, upon the basis of the shed Blood. I believe now. I have heard the Word, and it separates me." God bless you, sister. I see your hand. Someone else raise your hand? God bless you, brother. God bless you, sister. God bless you, brother. God bless you, brother. And you, brother, the Spanish brother. God bless you. God bless you, brother. That's it. That's it. E-60 Coming now, not on emotion, you're coming sanely, upon the basis of the shed Blood after hearing the Word. You've accepted it, believe that's true. "But now, I believe that water of the Word now has washed me to a place that I see that I'm in need of Christ. And now, Lord, I raise up my hands, and ask to come into the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Upon the basis of this, I raise my hand to You, God."
E-61 Been about a dozen raise their hand. Would you raise your hand? God bless you, sir. God bless you, brother. God bless you, brother. That's wonderful. The Holy Spirit here... God bless you, brother, I see you there. And God bless you. Someone else? That's good. Someone else on the bottom floor now, that'll just raise your hand. God bless you way back in the back. The elderly brother, I see you, God bless you. God bless you, over there. E-62 The Word is foolishness unto the world, but a water of separation to them that believe the preaching of the Word. May each one now, that's been separated from their sin, coming by acknowledging the Word, that it's made them--something come to their heart that said, "You're wrong. You're wrong." Raise your hand.
E-63 Father, I pray that You'll take every one into Your Divine protection and Your love. And I pray, Father, that this very night that their souls may be saved, and their names written on the Lamb's Book of Life in glory, that at that great day, when the roll is called, "Present." Praise God. I'd like to be standing, Father, to think that it was the Phoenix meeting. And that we toiled a little hard and made a few efforts, and oh, it's worth so much then. You said, "He that comes, I'll no wise cast him out."
E-64 "... preaches different, he don't teach according to our ways of believing. He won't join our circles. For his mind--he's a mind reader; he's a devil; he--it's mental telepathy; it's this."
E-65 Not long ago down in the south, an old colored man that got converted at a little old prayer meeting. He come out the next morning telling the--all of them, "Christ made me free. Christ made me free." So the master, the boss come by and said, "What's this I hear you say, Sambo? You're free?" Said, "You come over to my office."
E-66 Well, the old fellow preached many years. When he come to his death bed, many of his white brethren come around to watch him in his last hour. He went into a coma, was in there for quite a while. Directly, he woke up, looked around, batted his eyes, and smile on his old, dark face. Some of his white brothers said, "What's the matter, Sambo?" E-67 Father, grant that each one here tonight will see Thee, with the Blood upon them as a token of their acceptance of Thee. And these sinners tonight, many that raised their hands, apply the Blood that they can stand just inside the door. May I be able to stand with them, Lord, and grasp their hands while we look at Him in Jesus' Name. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-68 I was about ready to leave the building. I said, "All that wants to be healed, raise up your hand." Then when I got outside, the little thing was crying so. I was just coming to myself. I, out and I could hear her crying, her mother trying to quieten her. I said, "What's the matter, honey?" She was crying. I said, "What's the matter, sweetheart?"
E-69 And so the next night I went to the service, and I'd just got started. And I felt something move on me, and I looked around down here, and there laid a cot with an old, gray headed woman. I noticed the vision above her, getting in an airplane and coming. How they'd brought her in there and everything. Then I looked at her, and I seen her going, walking down through the aisle with the people like that, waving her hand.
E-70 Now, let's... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... went to Emmaus, rather. And there was a man stepped out, and walked with them all day long, as they journeyed. Begin to teach the Scripture. They thought He taught it a little different from somebody else. But he said, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He walked with us?" He's just a little... They heard it and they thought, "My, He's... That Man's a wonderful Teacher." He begin with Moses, and the Old Testament, and begin to teach to them how that Christ must die, and shed His Blood, and so forth.
E-71 Now, if He can only get you inside with Him now and shut off your unbelief on the outside, I trust that He will do something just a little different from what ordinary, that you'll realize that this One that made--had you to come here tonight, is the Lord Jesus, has walked with you today. E-72 Now, looking upon the people, so far as I know, they're every one perfectly, total strangers to me in the line. These that's lined up, we're strangers to one another, are we? We don't know each other. If that's right, raise up your hand, down along the line then. All right. Now, there's no one in the audience that, really I see, that I know except Brother Fuller setting here and some of the ministers, of course. That's the only persons I know. I see Sister Sharritt and them setting right down here.
E-73 I wish I could tell you what a feeling that's moving now. Not by feelings, but it's something a happening. This woman, standing right here, I've never seen her in my life, but she realizes something's taken place right now. Lady, I've never as much as looked at you, as far as I know, 'less I just motioning you over here. You realizing that something is just a little strange right now. Isn't that right? If it is, raise up your hand. See? What is it?
E-74 Just like He did the woman at the well, what would Jesus do first? He started talking to her. And He begin to talk to her, catching her spirit, then He found out what the Father wanted. And He told her, said, "You got five husbands." E-75 He's the same Jesus tonight, raised from the dead. This woman a stranger to me, and I know her not, if the Messiah, the Lord Jesus, will come and do the same thing for this woman... Of course, it might not be--that might be her trouble. I don't know. But whatever her trouble is, if the Lord Jesus will reveal it, will you accept Him then as Messiah, and say, "I believe with all my heart"? May He grant it. E-76 Please keep reverent; keep in your place; don't move around. No matter what takes place, just keep reverent. And I will hope to see you here tomorrow night. If the anointing strikes, of course... And listen, when it's calling in the audience, be careful. Watch, every person; be ready. Wherever it is, upstairs, anywhere, be ready. For sometimes you're moving through a lot of spirit to get into it, but I have to follow what He says.
E-77 Now, lady, just a few words with you, sister. And then, may the Lord grant these things that He has promised to us to be so. Now, we are strange to each other, never seen you in my life. Then there'd have to be some Supernatural something, somewhere. If anything that I'd know about you, would have to come from some resource besides a man. Is that right? It would have to come from a Supernatural resource. Well then, if it does happen, then what you think it to be, well, that'll determine what you are--what--what'll happen. See? It's your approach to it (That's right.), how you approach it.
E-78 And now, I want to ask you something. Even the way you feel right now, you realize that there's something has taken place, besides what was when It was doing that there talking. Is that right? Now, do you believe? Now, see, just talking to her, He told what was wrong with her, or whatever it was, and now, she becomes a believer.
E-79 Now, have faith; believe. Now, every person in here should believe. Now, if the Holy Spirit would speak to someone out in there (See?), you should believe. Do you believe?
E-80 Now, this man. Come here, sir. We're strangers to each other. I--I do not know you. You are a perfect stranger to me. You're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else, and that's a younger man than you are. And it's a... The person is, is something like a... has no control, like a cerebral palsy, or something like that. It's your--it's your--See, it's your son. And he's not here. He's in Nebraska, somewhere up there in that level country. Isn't that right? Come here. E-81 I see just upon...?... I can't hardly tell where it's at. Just have faith. Are you believing? How many out there is praying right now, that God will heal you? Without your cards... Saviour...
E-82 The little lady there that's wiping the tears from her eyes, setting right out here with a red coat on, I see a light hanging just above you. I think it's you. You've been praying for me to say something to you. I'm not reading your mind, but that's the truth. You're suffering with a trouble, aren't you, lady? And your trouble lays right in this a way on the right side. It's your liver. That's right. Wave your hand, if that isn't right. Do you accept your healing now from the Lord Jesus? Stand up and receive it.
E-83 Just keeps moving in the audience. What did you raise your hand for, lady, setting right there, back there behind her praying, saying, "God, have him to call me too." Yes. The little lady with the green looking jacket on, you, with the black hat, with your fingers up like this. You was just praying then, saying, "God, have him call me." That's that, with your hand up. Yes. You believe Him? God can make those gallstones go away from you and just make you perfectly well. The reason it was... Do you know what caused you to be that way? This lady here had liver trouble. And yours is gallstones right on the liver. Isn't that right? God bless you. E-84 You're here. You just... You're so pleased with us, 'cause sinners come home. Backsliders renewing themselves through the washing of the water by the Word, they're come upon the basis... And the angels of God are standing in the aisles tonight. There they are here, and the great Holy Spirit moving up and down the aisles. The people are aware that You're here, Father. I pray that You will heal every one through Jesus' Name. Amen.
E-85 Is this the patient? Come here just a minute, lady. Now, I want to talk to you just a moment. Are we strangers to each other? You have seen me before, but I don't know you far as that. And God knows that I don't know what you're here for. But He does know what you're here for, doesn't He? If God will let me know what you're here for, will you believe that when I preached the Gospel tonight, that... Any man can say anything He wants to. You have a right to doubt man, but you have no right to doubt God. That would be blasphemy, wouldn't it?
E-86 Have faith; don't doubt. May the Lord God bless, and add His blessings is my sincere prayer. Praise be to God. E-87 This is the patient. See, the people in the prayer line don't mean that they--it's you out there just as you believe. You're the patient, lady? You believe me to be God's servant? Thank you, sister. God bless you. Then maybe God will let me do something in the way of the Gospel to help you that you will--will get the desire of your heart. Now, I do not know you, you know that. That you're a stranger to me. I don't know you, but God does. Now, you're conscious that you're anointed also now? 'Cause that's this Pillar of Light between us. I see It moving back. It's your eyes. You're going blind. The hardening of the eyeballs, nerves are dying out. That's exactly what you was told. And the patch on the side of your face was caused by... You just fell. You fell off of a step and did that. Yesterday. Those things are true. You believe Him now as your Healer, Saviour...?... Lord Jesus, I bring her to Thee for her healing, laying my unworthy, human hands upon this, my sister. Ask that the desire of her heart be given through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. God bless you. E-88 Have faith; don't doubt. Be real reverent. Do you believe Him? Believe He's going to make you well? Just have just a little more faith. E-89 Is this the patient here? Would you come here, lady? We're strangers to each other. But God knows both of us, doesn't He? You're--you're--you're conscious that you're standing in the Presence of something besides a man. I'm just your brother. But you're conscious of something. If God will let me know what you're here for, will you accept your healing, or whatever you're here for? You will? It's a growth. You've had it for years. You want to get rid of it, don't you? You've tried to get into the line. You're trying to accept faith now. Isn't that true? You live here. You're--you live at 1119 South 18th Street. Your name is Mrs. Elisabeth Keel, isn't it? Now, go; have faith and be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus. E-90 Have faith. Believe with all your heart. You believe? Don't--don't move around, people, please it just--just nearly kills me when you're moving. What do you mean by that? Every spirit's set right to me. See? I can tell where you're at. And I'm trying to help you. See? I can't if you... See, it interrupts. I can't explain it; it's you're just set. See? Like breaths... Couldn't hide your life if you had to now.
E-91 You like to go home and be well and eat, and get rid of your stomach trouble, and be made well? And another thing, take your handkerchief and lay it on your husband when you get there. He will get over that TB...?... In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
E-92 Come. Do you believe Christ will heal you? Kidney trouble's nothing for Him to heal. He can make you well of that. Do you believe it? In the Name of the Lord Jesus may you be made whole. Amen. God bless you. Yes, you'll be all right then. Go believing with all your heart.
E-93 Do you believe, lady? You got the serious thing there is in the world, kills more people than anything else: heart trouble. For that's the occupation of the soul. You let Jesus in, just now, to heal, will you? Faith drop into your heart. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, may you go and be healed. |
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