<TITLE>04. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 Now, it's... Jesus told Satan there, "It's written that you shouldn't tempt the Lord." Or as some of the writers put it different, make a showing of God's power.
Now, remember, in the Bible, there was many people who passed by Jesus, that He never even had no compassion on them. If He did, He didn't show it. It was where He was led to stop. Is that right?
For instance, the man at the pool under the five porches. Being that the crowds of impotent people laying there, and here came--come Jesus walking through. And there laid one man who had been laying there for many years. He just raised that man up, and told him to take his bed and go home, and never even said nothing to the rest of the crowd. Is that right?
One man, He took him by the hand and led him out of the crowd, plumb out of the city, prayed for him. Of course, he begin to see men like trees. Might've stood there a hour or two longer praying for him, for all I know. But anyhow, when He got through praying, his sight came to him. See, wherever He was led...

L-13 Look at the man at the gate Beautiful that Peter healed, and John, passing through the gate. Jesus went right through that gate month after month while He was at Jerusalem. Why, didn't He heal that man? He'd been laying there forty years.
Notice. Or he didn't...?... the gate there to beg alms, I guess. That's what he'd been laying there for many years.
Now, notice. God only heals, not to show His power. He only heals those, not on the merits of your Christianity. He doesn't heal you because you're a Christian. He doesn't... But when He does heal you, He wants you to be a Christian from that time on. But He--but He doesn't heal because you--you'd be made well, "I'll go up there; I'll be healed, because I'm a Christian." No, God heals on your faith, your faith. If you're a--if you're a sinner, and know nothing about God, and never have been a Christian, if you'll promise Him that you will be a Christian, and will come, and you have faith enough for it to be done, it will be done, right then. But...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-14 I don't even have a purpose in mind. And those... And then you go there and that makes you nervous. Look down on the street and see them mothers walking with little babies there in their arms. And see the--the cripples laying around there, expecting to stop and pray, emergency.
I'm a human. I got a heart. And I feel for people. If I let myself go, I'd be a nervous breakdown before one week was over. I just got to shut my eyes, and look up, and say, "O God, have mercy," and walk on. See? And I get to a place where it's getting me so nervous.
A few moments ago, my little girl, nineteen months old now. Mother called, and she wanted to know if I just got the trip through all right. My little girl just been a talking. She was talking, "My daddy?" And she said, "I love you. Come home, daddy." Like that. And they took her away from the phone, and she started screaming, wanted to get back to the phone. That nearly killed me. 'Course it does. And I'd just only seen her five times since she was born. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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