<TITLE>13. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 And they stepped into the pool; God's always had some resource of healing for the people, since he fell from sin, or fell in sin back yonder, and sickness came into the world. God's had some way, a brass serpent, a pole, or a prophet, or something somewhere, that the people get to to be healed. There...
And this great troubling of the pool, the waters moving around, being troubled. Then Jesus comes by this audience of people. Here He come now, the very Emmanuel; God was in Christ recognizing the world to Himself. Here is God Jehovah, dwelling in His Son, Christ Jesus, moving by this pool of water. And now, do you believe He was full of love? Do you believe He had compassion on the people? Watch Him pass that old crippled up father there, withered, screaming, and begging for help. And Him passing through there, and His garments full of virtue, and passed right by him. This mother with the baby with the water-head, passed by right by. This poor old mother standing there, blind, crying for mercy, passed right by.

L-29 He went on His way, among that multitude of people until He come to a man laying on a pallet (Amen. That's right.), laying on a pallet... And watch now; you'll get the keynote. And Jesus knew that He'd been a long time in this case. If He had compassion, why didn't He catch some of those poor, lame, halt, blind, withered waiting for the troubling of the water, and Him moving right around every one of them, moving right among like that, full of love, full of compassion, passing every one of them by?
I got the Messiah looking like, pretty dark before you now, haven't I? Just wait. Go on reading now in Saint John 5, you'll see why. Looks like if He was full of love, He'd have mercy. Looks like if He'd have had mercy, He'd have healed some of those people. That's just where the critics of Divine healing fail to see today, because their eyes are blind to the truth of God.

L-30 They said, "Let Him go over here and heal this one. Let Him go over here." They're saying same...?... They said the same thing about our lovely Lord.
Notice, He went on His way right...?... till He come to this man that was laying on a pallet. It don't say, said, he had an infirmity thirty-eight years. Why, he had that infirmity when I was a baby. He was retarded. He might've had prostate trouble, or he--he might've had something another, it was... Let's say prostate trouble or--or something on that order. TB, it was retarded, wasn't going to kill him; he had lived thirty-eight years with it, laying there on a pallet. And Jesus came to that one man, not the lame, blind, halt, or withered, but came to that one man and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" Is that right?
One out of the thousands, "Wilt thou be made whole?" He said, "I have no man to put me in the water."
He said, "Take up they bed and go into thy house." He wrapped up his pallet, laid it on his back, and took off.

L-31 The Jews found him and begin to question him. They got Jesus and questioned Him. Here's what He said, Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise. For the Father worketh and the Son worketh hitherto." Is that right?


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