<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 As the other night, I quote it again, I guess Brother Arganbright is here somewhere tonight, the one that has the picture, or it may be in the pictures you just showed of the returning of the Jews to Palestine. What a remarkable instance it is now. How the prophets said that they would be there, and how they would return, and how the desert would blossom as a rose. And it's striking to know that we're living in that day, and that Jewish flag a flying again for the first time for twenty-five hundred years. And I want to show you something a little remarkable that you'd see why my heart burns for them.
The very day that Israel was declared a nation again for the first time for twenty-five hundred years, that same night the Angel of the Lord sent me out to pray for the sick, the very same time, May the 6th, 1946, the Lord Jesus did that.

L-14 And now, in Africa I asked them if they had been reading the Bible the missionaries give them. And they seen what the Lord Jesus did then. "And what He did then, He will do now," I said. He has risen from the dead. He's no more dead; He is alive forevermore, and He is here in every meeting. And where many many tens of thousands of people had gathered... And when I asked them, I said, "Now, what did our Lord Jesus do when He was here on earth?" The thing He did, He never claimed to be a great person. He said, "He could do nothing within Himself; just what the Father showed Him to do that's what He done," Saint John 5:19.
He passed through the pool of Bethesda where many crippled and afflicted people were lying. Many of them helpless, perhaps, thousands laying there, lame, halt, blind and withered. He passed by them without healing them.

L-15 We sometimes wonder how with full of love and compassion He could do that. But we misinterpret what love and compassion is. He walked to a man laying on a little pallet and said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "No one can help me in the water." He could walk. But said, "While I'm coming, someone steps down before me."
He said, "Take up thy bed and go into thy house." And the man was made whole. Walked away and left that multitude. We wonder at that sometime, if you don't have a spiritual understanding.
Jesus said to the Jews, the very same chapter 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 the Son worketh hitherto."

L-16 No prophet, no time any man ever possessed the power to do it within himself. Just as God will reveal it... Jesus said there was many lepers in the days of Naaman, but only one was sent to Him. Just one leper was healed in all the days of Elijah, one leper, because God sent him there. Elijah knew on Mount Carmel when he laid the sacrifices, he said, "I did all of this at Your will, at Your Word," taking God at His Word.
I believe tonight. And I trust now... I trust that this auditorium of people will come right on down and help finish out the meeting with us in prayer and stand by us. If there's some that cannot, maybe some of you are from out town and have to go home. If you are, the next few weeks be praying for me. When the winds are howling, and things are going contrary, I'll remember there's a group in Los Angeles praying for me. I'll believe that.


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