This Bible is the “Said I not” of God. Why? Because all that He has ever said pertaining to eternal things and the supernatural life are hidden in this revela­tion. This is His “Said I not.” It is the Word of God, the voice of God. In this Word He has given us promises, covenants, intimations in the Spirit suffi­cient to transport every last one of us from the place of death and darkness to the place of spiritual birth and resurrection, from the bondage of an old creation to a place in the heavenlies with Him.

All that is in the Word of God. The whole program for us as Christians is in this Word. Do you need salvation? There are many promises relative to that. Do you need healing? Is there a “Said I not” for the body? Certainly! Do you need wisdom? Is there any “Said I not” concerning wisdom? Yes. Suppose you are troubled and tempted and oppressed by the enemy. Have we any “Said I not” for such a situation? Yes.

You cannot name a condition or a cir­cumstance in which you may find yourself but that God has something in the Word for it. There is a “Said I not” of God for every situation that the soul may ever reach in its travels back again to the heart of God. I don’t care where you get pushed; in what environment you may find yourself, there is a “Said I not” of God and He expects us to believe what He has said. That is all. The rest is in His hands. All we need to do is to remember that not a situation arises, such as this dead man in the tomb, or any other in which we may be involved, but that God is fully aware of it and has made the necessary provision.

How many have not difficult situations? I have plenty of them, but I have learned something about these situations. There is not one in which I find myself but that God is conscious of it, and as I walk with Him and abide in His will .I find that they are contingent upon God’s plan and pur­pose. For nothing can touch me unless He permits it and as I am in Him, He permits the situation to arise.

We pray, “Lord, teach us faith.” But when He creates a situation in order to give us the first lesson, we call for the saints to pray for us, thinking that something must be the matter and that we are backslidden. People are always wanting miracles. They say, “If we only had the power we would raise the dead.” Do you want to be dead for us to experi­ment on you? Remember, you cannot have a resurrection unless someone dies. Do you want the Lord to demonstrate some tremendous power?

Don’t you know that all these things call for a situation? They call for an at­mosphere. Does anyone want to be Lazarus in the tomb? We say, “Oh, if we could only have a miracle!” The Lord knows many things that people do not know, and I am glad that He does not do all the things they want to make Him do.

If I am in the will of God and my life is surrendered to Him, He has something for me in every situation as it relates to my life.

We see that it was all in the plan and purpose of God to have this brother die. Jesus said it was all to the glory of God. The whole situation was to be turned into a medium of great victory. But they could not see it.

If He has spoken the Word, all I need to do is to believe what He has said and there will be the coming forth of the thing that He is after.