Welcome to from the pulpit and classic sermons
each week We bring you a different message
from some of history's greatest speakers and the
Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers,
too This week we have Amy simple McPherson
with her message power of faith It is
very foolish to hesitate To trust God All
that reminds me of the man and the
happening that they tell me took place very
near Los Angeles as our own palisades at
the beach and the darkness a stranger missed
his footing and fell over and And he
had seen how high the palisades were During
the day and he knew they soaked off
down gradually, but he didn't know just to
put what party falling off Whether it was
a deep Carter the deepest part of what
in the world would happen and he screamed
for help But no one heard him the
waves were washing in but he was able
to cling to a little bush It was
there and he clung with might and mania
that all my God help me I can't
hang on forever Besides the roots may pull
out it and I'll be back to my
death I mean you don't know and finally
if he'd hung on for moments on end
His fingers became cramped and he could hold
no longer and so he had been said
God Help me and let go and he
fell exactly an inch and three-quarters An
inch and three-quarters, we have no need
to doubt God God's Word is true God's
Word has been proven And to assemble with
this great multitude here tonight filled with hearts
That know Jesus Christ as their Savior say
amen Know Jesus Christ as their healer No
Christ as a baptizer with the Holy Ghost
and believe in the coming of the Lord
Thank God for the power of faith faith
Are the steps that seem to fall on
a void?
But really find the rock Beneath it when
faith is lost and honor dies man is
dead Faith it has been said sometimes has
a trembling hand As it approaches God, but
it must never have a withered hand It
must stretch and reach out and take hold
of him This is a weak limb grows
stronger by exercise Your faith will be strengthened
if you will just stretch out and reach
out and leap out And take hold of
God Hallelujah, it has been said that faith
without works That is faith without getting up
from that bed Faith without jumping up from
that wheelchair Faith without throwing your walking stick
away Is dead Faith without taking your glasses
off if you want your eyes healed faith
without taking your ear trumpet out Faith without
works is dead Put your faith into action
When Paul perceived that a certain man had
faith to be healed he said to him
stand up right on my feet and immediately
he leaped up And because he leaped and
put his faith into Action he was healed
Faith without works is like a bird without
wings Oh, I worried so much the last
day or two Tuesday I had a Lovely
visit down the coast Motoring along trying to
get a breath of fresh air to one
of those lovely old missions What is the
name of that place?
San Juan Capistrano, and it was just at
the time of the Angelus and they were
feeding those lovely white pigeons And they were
so beautiful that I thought I'd like to
catch one They were all around me but
a multitude and so I reached out and
I caught one as I thought by both
wings But I evidently just took hold of
it by the tail and the whole tail
came out my hand And the poor little
thing flew away Good didn't seem to be
able to fly straighter know which way was
going.
Oh, I have I've been so anxious about
it I've asked the Lord to help us
to grow a new tail and I I
Hope nobody knew that I was a guilty
party if they see that poor little pigeon
without a tail down there That faith without
works is like a bird without wings Though
She may hop with her companions on earth
Yet, she will never fly up into heaven
without both wings faith and works joined together
Then does the soul mount up to her
eternal rest and power in God Why faith
is a key that unlocks the treasuries of
God in the celestial world And can bring
down to us that which we need tonight
for body for soul and for spirit glory
to God faith is a chain that Binds
us to the infinite a chain which will
never break in the 11th the chapter of
Hebrews a famous and beloved chapter which doubtless
many of you have memorized and know The
heart having read it so often we read
of the great men and women of old
Who have dared to believe God and the
things which happen to them for instance?
Abraham dared to believe God for his friend
family the family of Abimelech for serenity No
child had ever been born in that family
And he prayed for them and God made
them productive and their seed to this day
spreading throughout the land faith Really brings a
blessing every time He knew the power of
faith and by that power of faith believing
God took off beyond the stratosphere our Los
Angeles newspapers these days speak much of the
bird men men with wings of The wrong
way Corrigan and a fused marvelous achievement they
show us Strange pictures of men wearing a
new type of mask What fashion I believe
by the male clinic and so that they
will be able to breathe After they have
gone up into the stratosphere above I heard
a radio interview a little while ago Someone
asked how high the stratosphere was and it
developed up No one knows just how high
up one can breathe it, but in it
by the power of God Hallelujah, did more
than Corrigan or Hughes or these new stratosphere
flyers He was caught up into the heavenlies
God Conquered distance Moses knew the power of
faith And that power was a very practical
power of faith in that it supplied temporal
need When water was needed He by the
grace of God and upon the word and
authority of God walked up to a great
rock symbolic of Jesus Christ But that rock
and water gushed forth Sufficient for all of
the people to drink all of their time
in the wilderness Moreover by faith that rock
did follow them and that rock was Christ
Yes, Moses by the power of faith Conquered
temporal supply needs So that the very heavens
Rained down manna and there was plenty for
everyone to eat and when they became weary
of one diet He prayed again and the
Lord sent quail on the breeze until Everyone
had meat to eat Joshua knew the power
of prayer Glory to God as he came
to the great armed city With his thick
walls which we know as Jericho and by
marching around and believing God In the face
of scorning and scoffing men He was given
through faith power over the armaments of mankind
So that God discomfort of the enemy and
a great Wall large enough for houses and
streets to be built upon it was shaken
as though by an earthquake and fell to
the earth and Lay in the dust God
can let your wall fall tonight There is
nothing that God cannot accomplish for you if
you will just trust in him the power
of faith Elijah Knew of faith and dared
to believe God and he by faith conquered
the elements themselves fire and water Lifting his
hands to heaven.
He prayed Oh Lord send the fire and
the true God let the flame Descend upon
the altar again, he played and the Barren
heavens reigned upon a land that was parched
and thirsty.
Oh Hallelujah, we're living in the day of
the Holy Ghost We're living in the day
of a Pentecostal outpouring nearing the second coming
of Jesus Christ If ever there was a
time when men and women needed to have
faith in God and step out upon the
promise.
It's today He will save you from sin
it matters not what kind of sin or
how great your sin or how You have
despaired or what others think or say concerning
your sin He is blood can wash away
all sin He loves you as though there
were no one else in the world, but
you He Jesus Christ can by the power
of faith heal you Not the one next
to but you Because in his mercies are
not To certain people and not to others
his mercies are to us all Bless the
Lord.
Oh my soul and forget not all his
benefits who forgiveth all mine iniquities and healeth
all thy diseases By the power of faith
I have dared to trust God These men
had power over armaments over the elements over
transportation through distances over fire over water Over
rolling a red sea away over parting the
river Jordan over bringing down manna from the
skies increasing the oil in the widow's Cruise
and kneel in the barrel, but I also
have dared to believe God by faith And
with my own eyes During my ministry have
seen tens of thousands of actual cases of
healing that Cannot be doubted.
I have seen cancers melt away in answer
to prayer and the flesh Which was once
eaten away still up again with firm new
flesh I have seen withered limbs and Tubercular
bones filled with pop and pockets Instantly healed
it so that the persons leap from their
wheeling chairs or cast aside crutches and walked
up and down Shouting glory to God.
I'm healed by faith in the crucified one
Healed by faith in the resurrected one and
the spirit raised up Jesus Christ from the
dead Dwelling in us quickens our mortal body
Hallelujah, so we live in him.
I have had the joy of seeing blind
eyes Yes,
open the people who've been locked in a
dungeon of deafness for many many years Unable
to hear the voices of their loved ones.
I've watched them and the expression of their
faces when their ears popped Open I've heard
the dumb made to speak.
Oh Beloved, this is not unusual This is
the same God who worked in the Old
Testament It is the same God who worked
when Jesus Christ walked This earth it is
the same God who is poured out to
the Holy Ghost today and we will meet
by and by Fame is a bridge between
this world and the next Glory be the
power Seamless it
will go as far as Daniel proved by
the sister would devour you to the
request of the king took up the three
Hebrew children who believed in God to throw
them in the fiery furnace and That the
men were instantly stricken dead as the guards
of the king the wicked men were stricken
dead But a strange thing happened three
of them appeared walking In the fire as
though they were walking in a lovely shape
lame And the farm of the forest was
like unto the Son of God And know
what the smell of Raymond is
not Not
he was able to raise lift his hands
to the sky and cry out I Glory
to God this mountain be thou removed And
it shall be removed into the sea and
that be no more Paul To whom
I referred a few moments ago to whom
he said stand upright upon my feet And
the man leaping stood having never walked before
and are having any use of his limbs
He circled
the racial day
Faith wells in the
middle of the night On the other hand
that we should not be too independent one
of another God has been enough in worship
and cease not the assembling of ourselves and
Therefore he says call upon the elders of
the church and they will anoint you with
oil and lay hands upon you James the
fifth chapter and the prayer of a shall
save the sick and the Lord shall raise
him up lauded but
They were soon persuaded by a man who
brought a rumor and false report against them
The public is usually rather fickle Have been
through the years before We're about to Put
him and did so him upon
the Refuse to be buried from sight the
next day.
We read.
However Huffing us
went out of his face His eyes opened
I think the first thing he must have
said was glory to God And a silver
there or any oxygen tent being brought He
stood upright upon his feet and the next
day walked many miles Carrying the gospel with
him the work
is dead You are going now to be
prayed to
make you whole shall be
upon us now Let us see thy face
and for the tumbling waterfalls But the birds
the prayers of men through the ages so
that mighty miracles have been wrought through fire
and water and will
you play with me now and sinner, will
you play with me and Christian will you
assist them by praying and repeating this prayer
and mean it from your heart dear Lord
Jesus We're listening
at this moment feel up strange tingling Giving
quickening power Thou
did raise up Lazarus from the bed Raise
up these people.
I pray thee and call them to be
Earnest workers in the vineyard of our God
and his face and all the people said
Amen You've been listening to the from the
pulpit in classic sermon series this week You
heard Amy simple Macpherson with her message the
power of faith Tune in next week to
hear bh.
Clendenin speak an urgent message to God's elect
on from the pulpit in classic sermons