<TITLE>12. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Look, you... This--this... It's got to be right or wrong. There's no middle grounds. It's either right or it's wrong. This is either the Word of God or it's not the Word of God. It's either inspired or it's not inspired. Jesus either meant what He said, or He didn't mean what He said. And He's either the same yesterday, today, and forever, or He's not the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's either Almighty God, or He's nothing. Is that right? If He's Almighty God, He can do all things. If He can't do all things, He's not Almighty God. Is that right? So that's just the whole thing, friend.
And if I couldn't believe Him for every Word in here, I wouldn't be up here preaching tonight. I was a state game warden of Indiana when I was called into this and loved my work. But I know that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead and lives in His people tonight. And He's just the same as He ever was. Let's drop back and get a view of Him.

L-43 When He come on earth... If we was going to go around through the city here, tonight, Columbus, and look for Him, what type of person would we look, a high scholarly, polished man? No. We never read... As far as I know, He never had a day of schooling in His life, 'less His mother taught Him. Strange? Would we look for a man that had his collar turned around, and the--all--big robes, and flashed up, dressed different from other people? No, sir. He dressed like a common man, like the man on the street.
Would we look for a man that had excellently of speech, that He knowed how to... His grammar so perfect? The Bible is written in the regular street language. That's the reason the translators get mixed up on it so much. One says the Greek Word says this and the Hebrew Word says this. And they disagree on it, because they are trying to apply a different meaning. It was taught right in regular language like you and I use here, just a regular language.

L-44 You wouldn't look for a scholar. Well, what type of Man was He? Was He a man walking around with a great big, wide shoulders and a fine seven footer? The Bible said there's was no beauty we should desire Him. Yes, sir. He was no beauty of Him we should desire, probably a little bitty Fellow. So, He didn't look like any king, yet He was King of kings. Uh-huh.
But notice now, another thing, watching. He wasn't a... We wouldn't look then to find a man... Did He claim to be a--a Healer? No. Did He claim to perform miracles? No. He said "It's not Me that doeth it; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the work. Of Myself, I can do nothing." So He didn't take any praise. Went around... "The Man of the hour," or anything, was He? He didn't take no praise at all for anything. He said, "It's not Me that doeth a thing. I can do nothing in Myself. What the Father..." He never claimed to heal one person. And He never healed one person.

L-45 I want to give you... Do you believe He was full of mercy? Do you believe He was love and full of compassion? I want to question you now. We'll take that... Let's take Saint John 5. There was a pool called Bethesda, at the sheep gates, where you come in for the market, had five porches. In these lay great multitudes of sick and crippled people: lame, halt, blind, and withered. Is that Scripture?
Now, if we wasn't in such a hurry, I'd read it. But you--you're scholars and understand. They was laying underneath porches: lame, halt, blind, withered, waiting for the moving of the water, for an Angel come down at a certain season, troubled the water. The first one stepping in, just one at a time, one every two or three months. But the first one stepping in after the troubling of the water was made whole of whatsoever disease he had, is that right?


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