<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 And Jesus said, "Take up thy bed and go into thy house. Go on," and walked right away and left that great crowd of people laying there, lame, blind, halt, withered, impotent. Is that Scripture? Well, here It is; I'm reading right off of It. Walked right away from there...
The Jews found Him and questioned Him. And the man that was carrying his bed they questioned him. Now, when you go home you read the whole chapter, you get the picture. To save time, I want to read the 19th and 20th verse. Here tells you why.
Now, I want to ask you something 'fore we read these verses. Do you believe if Jesus would've said to that whole multitude, "I am the Son of God. I have come to do the work of the Father. The Father has given Me power to open the eyes of all you blind, to heal all you sick people, to do all this, make the lame walk, and make the withered hands come forth. I've already proved it. Now, every one of you are healed. You can go home now and be well."

L-27 I believe that every person there would've been made perfectly whole. Do you believe that? I've got you between a question now. See? If He was the Son of God, which we know He was, and He was kind-hearted and had compassion on the people, here He is. And then He refrains from telling them that. How could He be kind-hearted and full of love and compassion for the people... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Is that clear enough to you? Some of you didn't put your hands up. But I want to know why that He didn't heal those people. And turns right back around here and said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He seeth the Father do. What the Father shows the Son, then the Son goes and does those things that He showed."
Remember our lesson this afternoon in the sermon? Lazarus, He went on away from the home of Lazarus. Why didn't He when He come back, He said, "Our friend, Lazarus sleepeth. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there. But I'll go wake him."
And then when He come to the grave, look, He'd seen a vision. That's the reason He didn't go back. The Father told, it taken so many days for these things to happen, and then for Him to go back. According to what He said here, that had to be the truth. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me."

L-28 And after three days, He said, "Now, Lazarus is dead. And I'm glad I wasn't there for your sake, 'cause you'd have been trying to get Me go over and heal him." See? And the Father, that wasn't the Father's will.
And watch Him when He comes to the grave of Lazarus. Said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hearest Me already. But for these that stood by, I said it." He knew what was going to happen. You believe that? The Father had showed Him. Then He raised Lazarus from the dead. And He did nothing, except the Father showed Him.
You remember the lesson the other night in Saint John, when those blind men come to Him, and He just walked on down the street, never paid any attention to them. He went into a house, and they came in the house, said, "Lord, have mercy on us."

L-29 He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith, be it unto you." Is that right? "According to your faith be it unto you." And He touched their eyes.
The men told Him, "If You will touch our eyes," in other words, "we believe."
And He said, "All right." He touched their eyes, said, "Now, according to your faith, let it be unto you." And it was done. On down through the Scriptures, you can take it. Everywhere, every place...
Here sometime ago, a certain man, is well-known in this congregation, well-known everywhere, around. A newspaper give a real bad write-up about me, some things that wasn't right. He said, "Brother Branham," said, "call fire of heaven down and burn that place up."
I said, "Oh, brother, my." I said, Jesus said, "You don't know what spirit you are." See?


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