Stories of Faith - Episode 24

Narrated by T.L Osborn

"When we first ministered in Java, Thailand it was a 95% Moslem. Around the world we had heard how difficult the Moslems were to reach. They do not believe that Jesus is God's Son or that God raised Him from the dead. We remembered how helpless we were to convince them in India. But now things were different. We knew HOW to believe for miracles.

The first night I preached to that multitude, when I finished my message, I told them that I would not expect them to forsake their religion and accept the Jesus of the Bible unless it would be proven to their satisfaction that Christ is alive. I expressed that I did not feel a dead Christ could do them any good.

They knew that Jesus Christ had once lived on earth. They understood that He was a good man, a sort of prophet even a healer with strange powers to do miracles. But they understood that He was dead.

There is only one argument to win a Moslem. If Jesus Christ is alive, let Him do the miracles which He did before He was killed! He is dead, He can't. If He is risen, He will!

I called for deaf people. I told them I would prayy in JESUS' NAME. If Christ is dead, His Name would have no power. If, He is alive, He would do the same as He did before men killed Him.

The first man up the steps was a Moslem priest about 55 years old, wearing his black fez. He had never heard in one of his ears.

I witnessed to him of Jesus Christ, then I told him how I would pray. I explained how God was looking down on us, how He had raised His Son from the dead, how He wanted men to know Christ was raised for our Justification, and how He would give, this by doing this miracle.

Then I told the audience "If this man does not here when I have finished praying, you can say I am a false preacher and Jesus is dead; but if he does ear, now that 

Christ is risen, because a dead Christ cannot do such a miracle."

I placed my finger in his ear and prayed let it be known that Jesus Christ is thy son, that Thou didst raise Him from the dead and that only through Him and His shed blood can men come to Thee and receive Eternal Life let this be known according to the Scriptures by causing this deaf ear to heal IN JESUS CHRIST'S NAME I pray. Amen!

The entrire audience gasped when the old priest could hear the faintest whisper even the tick of a watch perfectly. Thousands raised their hands that night to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord."