Diseases and Afflictions

Diseases and afflictions are all the results of sin, maybe not in your life, but in somebody’s life before you. The devil is the author of sickness and afflictions. Before we had any devil, we had no sickness or afflictions. But, when Satan came, he brought with him sickness and afflictions.

There is so many times that we refer to them as blessings. I never could think that God could get a blessing out of a sick person; unless it was a sinner, driving him to God; or a disobedient child, bringing him back to be reconciled to his Father. But sicknesses are the results of the devil and of the fall. There…

They last as long as faith lasts. But when faith fails, then your healing will fail. Would you say every person came to the altar and got converted would be a Christian all their days? He could be tonight a child of God, and tomorrow be a child of the devil. It’s when he loses faith in God, what sends him back.

“There are three that bear record in heaven.” Now, when we’re…Our conversion. The element came from Jesus Christ’s body when He died; there was water, Blood, and Spirit, and these three things make up the new Birth. Is that right, ministers? These three elements make up the new Birth; water, Blood, and Spirit.

Well, then, what does that? The devil. The—the germ is a life. First, the germ is a teeny little cell with a life in it. And that life only can come from two resources, either from God or the devil. And you came from the germ of life, by God. The cancer, tumor, or so forth, come from the germ of life by the devil. And...

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But the sense of faith is just as real as your sight is, or any other of your senses. You see what I mean? You believe it, you just…There’s no one can make you doubt it, because you are possessed with tha...