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1. John 14:1-3 (4:03)
2. My Heart is Fixed (19:53)
3. Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, first and last verses (3:22)
4. If You’ll Trust in the Lord (3:36)
Selected Verses:
Psalm 108:1-5. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and
give praise, even with my glory. 2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself
will awake early. 3I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and
I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. 4For thy mercy is
great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. 5Be
thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. Opening:
God “will not suffer you to be tempted above your
ability.” But it means He will—and He always
has—suffered the children of God to be tempted, because that’s the only way in
which our hearts can be fixed. We have certain people in the
church today—I mean in the church at large—who are fixed concerning divine
healing. Elder Brooks was like that: he was fixed. And how did he get fixed?
Well, he got fixed.
And Elder Brooks needed fixing. When he came to know about
divine healing, he was a big preacher—he knew everything. But he was sick unto
death. He was really a sick man. He was 45 years old then, and he came to the
meeting of Dr. Dowie in Chicago. He’d heard about divine healing, so he came
all the way from Ohio, where he had a ministry, to Chicago. And he sat there
in his civilian clothes, and Dr. Dowie was firing away with all his Gatling
guns. He was firing against… He had a sermon about “Drugs, Doctors, and
Devils.” I thought that was awfully radical until I read the sermon. And I
said, “Well, that man’s got something: Drugs, Doctors, and Devils.”
It’s a strange thing how people will trust in drugs and
they’ll trust in doctors rather than trust in the Lord who said, “I am the
Lord that healeth thee.”
… Selected Quotes:
And [Elder Brooks] said, “Doctor, how
about the man that was born blind?” And that gave Dr. Dowie
ammunition. He said, “There you are! ’Tain’t the saloon keepers, ’tisn’t the
backslidden church, but it’s the preachers! They destroy the work of
God!” And then he handed it out to him for a half an hour. He just kept
aiming at Elder Brooks and giving it to him. I tell you, Elder Brooks got
sore. He lost all the sanctification he ever thought he had. He did. He was
so mad he could have jumped at Dr. Dowie.
…
God sent someone up to him, into his
bedroom and said, “Elder is to get up and come down for dinner and eat a good
meal…” Well, he had learned to obey God: his heart was fixed… fixed on the
word of God… He said with every step, his pains lessened, and by the time he
got down to the table he had a ravenous hunger, and he was healed.”
…
Talking about divine healing, he
says, “If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin.”
It means that this body is still a body made of dust. What am I going to do?
I’m tempted, I’m tested. But “the Spirit that raised Jesus from the
dead…” Did He raise Him from the dead? He did! He raised Him.
That was not the end of His job. He’s got a job to do in your body.
…
Beloved, my heart must be fixed upon
this foundation: Jesus Christ has undertaken, and He takes over, thank God!
And when He undertakes, everything is different. And how does He undertake?
Not by giving you a shovelful of aspirin tablets when you’re sick. No, but by
pouring His life-giving Spirit upon you.
…
I don’t talk about my illness or my
feelings because it only stirs up trouble—makes things worse. If you can talk
to people that have faith, that’s OK. But usually people: “Is that? Oh, my!”
And they make it worse: “You’ve got to be careful. I tell you, you’ve got to
be careful. You can’t fool with this thing.” God didn’t fool either. But oh,
thank God, my heart is fixed!
…
When I sat behind a minister in
Germany, he was saying, “Oh, if we only had—.” I said, “We have!” “If
we only could—.” I said, “We can!” “If we only did—.” I said, “We do!”
For goodness sakes, where do you live? “He that hath wrought us for
the selfsame thing is God.”
…
Last night, I was a little bit
stumped after that wonderful meeting to hear people hollering outside. I said,
“Cut their heads off and they’ll still be talking fifteen minutes after that.”
Of course, they won’t make that noise. Here in the meeting—I don’t bet, but I
betcha—they didn’t open their mouths to say, “Hallelujah.” But as soon as they
got outside, they can yell.
“Awake up, my glory.” That’s what my glory
is for—my tongue—to glorify my God. And oh, what a blessing, what a contact I
have when I praise the Lord! How many times we’ve been healed when in the
worst testing we praised the Lord.
… Illustrations:
The woman who decided that “Selah” means “Smile.” “I
smile at all my foes. Praise the Lord!” (from 5:44) The example of Dr. A. B. Simpson. “Dr. Simpson not only
was healed. He said his body was still weak, but Christ rose up within him and
lived within him.” (from 13:04) German at 1:49:
Ich bin der Doktor Eisenbart,
Kurier’ die Leut’ nach meiner Art,
[Kann machen, daß die Blinden geh’n,
und daß die Lahmen wieder she’n.] Oh, I am Dr. Eisenbart
I’ll cure your ills with healing art.
[Now, I can make the dumb to walk,
The lame to see, the blind to talk!] References:
Dr. Dowie: John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907),
evangelist, and founder of Zion, Illinois.
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