<TITLE>13. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 And said, "Don't fear. Only believe." Now, that same Lord Jesus that was there at this scene is here tonight on this scene. When He was here on earth, we see His mercy. On the resurrection of that little girl, the Father had showed Him a vision as He went for some time. He said, "He did nothing..." When He looked around, Jairus, He perhaps had already seen what was going to happen; 'cause He said with His own lips when He passed through the pool where the cripples and lames and blind lay, passed through there and found a man laying on a pallet, for God had showed Him where that man was. He'd had a disease for thirty-eight years. It wasn't going to kill him. Then walked over there and healed that man, went on about His business. And there laid at least two or three thousand people or more, laying in this pool here, waiting for the moving of the water: Lame blind, halt, withered, waiting there.
And yet a loving, compassionate Father passing right through it. But sometimes people don't know what love is; you get love and sympathy mixed up. See? Love is obedience. God speaks; it's obedience, regardless of what sympathy or anything else is.
No wonder He said, there in the Garden of Gethsemane, His sympathy to leave His friends and everything, but said, "Thy will be done." That's right. That's love; that's real love is obedience. There He passed by. Sure, His heart bled for that poor little mother standing there with a water-head baby and that poor old blind father, crippled up with arthritis, been standing there for years and years, trying to get in that pool when the Angel come down, but they couldn't do it.

L-38 Great multitudes, and it takes two thousand to make one multitude. And multitudes, in the plural, laid there day and night. The Angel would come down, trouble the water; the first one stepping in with faith, got well. And they had to wait till it was troubled again. So then they laid there year after year and their loved ones brought them something to eat. And the beggars laid there, trying perhaps, to get into the pool once and be healed, try their faith against the Angel--or with the Angel when it come down. And there, that great multitude laying there...?... The Bible said, 'impotent folk,' laying there with lame blind, halt, withered, waiting, and He passed by every one of them and they never said one word to any of them. Walked over there to this man, said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "Well, I--I--I... Somebody can outrun me." He said, "When I'm coming to the pool, somebody can run better than I can, runs down and steps in ahead of me, and that's how it happens."
He said, "All right. Take up thy bed and go into thy house."
The Jews questioned Him. Why, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you; the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."

L-39 When He was here on earth, He knowed the secret sins of the people. He knew what they'd done, where they'd been. When Philip come to Him after he found Nathaniel, just walked up and He said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." That was the beginning of His ministry.
Why, Philip, standing in the prayer line said, "Why, how did You know me, Rabbi? (Or Reverend, whatever you want to call it. 'Master,' I think, or 'teacher,' is the right interpretation.) How did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you." He didn't say...
Now, you know what the outsiders stood around, said, "That man's a spiritualist. He's Beelzebub. That's the prince of all the devils." In other words, "He was the best mind reader there was. He's the prince of the devil."
But you know what? Philip said, "Thou art the--the Son of God, the King of Israel." And he had Eternal Life.


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