<TITLE>03. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 On earth we found Him and has pictured Him to you through the week... This is not a--a some church theology; it's the Scriptures that we're speaking: that our Lord Jesus Christ came to earth and was Jehovah God in-veiled in flesh in order to take away sin and sickness from the earth. God was in Christ reconcile the world to Himself. He said, "A... I came from God; I go to God. A little while and the world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Now, He promised that. He promised His disciples the things that He did, the disciples would do also to the end of the world, even more things than He did.

L-12 Now, we notice what kind of a person He was. Many people has a wrong conception of Christ. They think that He was more like a totem pole or something, and people went along and touched Him and so forth and was made well. If they had faith, they was made well. But Jesus plainly was not a Fellow to boast and say, "Bring me this sick person and I'll heal them." Jesus plainly said that He did nothing except His Father showed Him first what to do. We all believe He was full of mercy and compassion, do we, all of us? We believe that the very heart of God was in Him. He had mercy and compassion on the people. But let's watch and see how loving and compassionate He was.

L-13 He passed through a pool called Bethesda one day. Now, there laid multitudes of impotent folk: lame, halt, blind, and withered. And here come that merciful Lord Jesus, moving right among those people, seemingly with no compassion at all. Moved by the crippled, blind, withered, halt, till He found a man laying on a pallet, a little bed, laying on the floor somewhere. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "I have no one to put me in the water."
He said, "Take up thy bed and go into the house."
Now, we wonder why that He'd leave all those important cases go, and go to this one, and heal him, and walk away, and leave all that audience laying there. That's Saint John the 5th chapter. All Bible readers are familiar with it.

L-14 Now, here's Jesus' answer concerning it, in the 19th verse. 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. The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." In other words, Jesus did not do anything while He was here on earth, in the way of performing signs and wonders, until He saw the Father show Him a vision on what to do. Chase back down the Bible with the prophets and find out if it wasn't this same thing. We have had the wrong slant. Even the flesh of Jesus Christ couldn't glory in the Presence of God, because He said, "It's not me that doeth the works; It's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works."


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