24-0422P_THE TESTIMONY OF A TRUE WITNESS PT-9 (THY HOUSE)

Act 16:28  But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. 

Act 16:29  Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 

Act 16:30  And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 

Act 16:31  And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 

*WHEN WE'RE BORNED OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, GOD ISN'T WEAK IN ONE PLACE AND STRONG IN ANOTHER. IF YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE SHADOW OF GOD IN YOU…

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  E-33    As I said the other day, when we're borned of the Spirit of God, God isn't weak in one place and strong in another. If you've got a little shadow of God in you, just the littlest speck of God, then you've got all power. You got enough power in you to make a world and go out and live in it.

But of course, that power is controlled by faith. If it wasn't, we'd all have us a world out there, living in it. But if you're a son of God or a daughter of God, you've got the power of God in you. See? So then, you... That law holds that faith to a certain thing.
 
*WELL, ONE DAY WHEN WE ACCEPTED CHRIST, WHAT DID HE DO? HE OPENED UP, AS SOON AS WE ACCEPTED HIM... THAT'S OF FAITH …WE--WE WAS ALLOTTED THAT MUCH FAITH. WHY? BECAUSE THAT WE BELIEVE THAT WE ARE SAVED.

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  E-34    Now, let's take for instance, all of us, we'd say. We once lied; we'd steal; we'd--we'd curse, and swear, and do everything that's wrong. Well, one day when we accepted Christ, what did He do? He opened up, as soon as we accepted Him... That's of faith, just like Paul told the Roman to have, "Believe." Just exactly what Job did: believe. See? And as soon as we accepted Christ as our Saviour, immediately we received enough faith, till we walked away, no more lying, no more stealing, no more cheating. See? No... Why?

We rode right up above that sin that we used to ride in there. We--we was allotted that much faith. Why? Because that we believe that we are saved. Is that right? We believe here that we are saved. So then, we ride up above that, because we believe we are saved.
 
AND BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, YOU RISE UP FROM THAT; YOU'RE TO ANOTHER LEVEL.

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  E-36    Now, with that little bit of God, when you said, "Yes, Lord Jesus, I'm a sinner. I'm not worthy of Your love. But You did love me so I accept You as my Saviour." Immediately, you walk right out of there, and what is it? You stop your lying. You stop cheating. You stop stealing. You stop doing things that you oughtn't to do. Why? Because you believe that you are a Christian. And because you believe you are a Christian, you rise up from that; you're to another level. Now. See?

Now, if you're sick, here's healing. You just believe it. Now, you can't make yourself believe it. It's got to be something happen to you, just like your conversion. It's got to happen.
 
*A--A MARRIAGE BASED OUTSIDE OF THAT IS SURE TO FALL, OR IT'LL NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL. THEY'LL NEVER BE HAPPY.

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  E-37    I was telling my wife the other day how much I loved her. So, I don't guess she wants me to talk about this. But I do it in private so I guess I can do it in public right now. I was telling her how much I loved her, and how I always have loved her since the first beginning. I said, "It don't make any difference..."

She said, "Oh, Bill." She said how... talking about how fat she was getting and her hair turning gray.

I said, "Honey, you could be that wide and no hair, I'd still love you just the same." See? Because it has to be something there that you have to--has--you have to meet that you love somebody. And unless that person loves that other person...

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  E-38    This is for you young girls that's not married (See?), and you boys. When you meet that girl that you love, and there's just something you know you love her, and that's just all there is to it, or you love him and that's--you don't care whether he's handsome, or whether he's not handsome, or whether she's pretty or not pretty. That doesn't matter. But you love them just the same. Now, you'd better watch, kinda hold around close there, because that's--you're getting close to home there.

And I... it... A--a marriage based outside of that is sure to fall, or it'll never be successful. They'll never be happy. Now, I said that to get around to one thing I want to say.
 
*A CONVERSION, OUTSIDE OF THE SAME THING, WON'T LAST EITHER. BUT WHEN YOU'RE CONVERTED TO CHRIST, A LOVE TO CHRIST, THEN YOU ACCUMULATE A FAITH IN CHRIST…

 THY.HOUSE_  TIFTON.GA  TUESDAY_  61-0808

  E-39    Friends, a conversion, outside of the same thing, won't last either. It won't. When you go to church, and--and you say, "Well, I'm going to join church, and I'm going to be baptized." If that isn't coming from a heart of love to God yonder, it'll never go nowhere. You'll just... All you'll do is join church and be baptized.

But when you're converted to Christ, a love to Christ, then you accumulate a faith in Christ, like you would to your wife, or to your husband. You accumulate a faith that you walk in that faith. I don't know, you just--something about you, you just got a--something that anchors you there. You see?

Well, that's the same way it is about Christ. And what Christ says, you believe it. And you just stay right with it. And that's the way... It just raises you right up above it, and God brings it to pass and fulfills His promise, "If thou will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thy and thy house shall be saved."