<TITLE>10. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 Now, watch when Jesus was here on earth. Let's see what kind of Person He was, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's our theme note now, for the entire revival: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever." That's my campaign slogan, is "Jesus Christ The Same."
Well then, looks like that that would take every bit of doubt out, if Jesus Christ will produce Himself, or reproduce Himself in His Church, just the same as He did back in the beginning. Is that right?
Now, let's see what kind of a Man He was. Did He claim to be a Healer? No. He didn't claim to heal anybody. Frankly, He said He never healed anybody. He said, "I can do nothing of Myself." Is that right? "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Is that right?

L-33 Let's see. How many believes He was loving and full of compassion? We all do. Let's trust--test that compassion once. We see Him coming down... A woman had just touched the hem of His garment, was made whole of a blood issue. And we see Him coming down now into the pool of Bethesda (God willing, the next few months, I aim to pass through that pool.), where great multitudes, not a multitude, multitudes. Takes two thousand to make one multitude. So there were great multitudes of impotent folk laid there.
Now, watch what kind of people they were: lame, halt, blind, withered. What a condition, waiting for the moving of the water, for an Angel come down at a certain season, troubled the pool. Whosoever with faith, stepping in first, was made whole of whatever he had.

L-34 Now, here comes Jesus walking right down through that pool, the Garments full of virtue, walked right by every one of those crippled and afflicted people. There was an old mother, maybe, with a baby with a water-head, some poor old blind dad, crippled up with arthritis, saying, "Somebody have mercy to put me in the pool." And here is Emmanuel, coming, walking down through this pool, full of power, full of virtue, full of love, full of compassion, and walked by the screaming, howling multitude begging for mercy, and never opened His mouth and said a word to any of them.
I believe if He had told that whole multitude, "Every one of you are healed." I believe they'd all got up and went home. Don't you? Well then, why didn't He? Now is the next thing. Why didn't He? Now, we want to see whether Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. See? Why didn't He tell them?

L-35 Here's the reason. You noticed Him milling through those crippled and afflicted people, with garments full of virtue. God Himself manifested in flesh, moved down along those people, went over to a man, not a cripple, and twisted, and blind, and halt, but a man laying on pallet, a little bed, blanket or something laying there.
He had an infirmity he'd had thirty-eight years, probably prostate trouble. Wasn't going to kill him, it was retired. He'd had it thirty-eight years. He walked up to him. Watch now. For He knew this man in this condition all this time. And He said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
He said, "Sir, I have no one to put me in the water." (Now, he wasn't crippled.) Said, "While I'm coming down..." Somebody outrun him and got in first. Said, "While I'm coming, someone gets in ahead of me."
He said, "Take up thy bed and go into the house." No more argument. He picked up his bed, and done what Jesus told him, went on home. That was it.


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