<TITLE>07. Par 12-12</TITLE>L-12 Now, and in there, there was an Angel came down every certain season, maybe once a month, and It troubled the water. You know what troubled waters are? Living close to this river you should know. It's when the river is coming down this way, flowing, and the wind's blowing up that way, chops it. It's very dangerous water. And when this water, with no circulation of current nowhere, but yet it chopped it and troubled it like that... An Angel come down and troubled the water. It would chop up and down. And the first man stepping in, with faith, got healed of whatsoever disease he had. He first must believe it.
The writers tell us, it was such a pathetic sight, till they stabbed one another, to get--see who could get it first. And here come Jesus, coming down to this pool: the very Emmanuel.
A woman had just touched the hem of His garment. He never prayed for her. She just touched His garment. He turned around, said, "Your faith has made you whole." And here He was coming here, the Emmanuel, walking through that pool.
Let's draw a little dramatic picture here. Here's a mother with a water-head baby, pleading to let her in first. Here's an old dad with arthritis, drawed up like this. Here's a poor blind man that hasn't seen for years, everyone hollering for mercy. Let them in first if the Angel comes on the water. For every time anyone stepped in, and a healing taken place, the virtue drawed the Angel off the water. And they waited for months to get back, when the Angel come again, whenever It would come at a certain seasons that it came in.
But the healing of the patient drawed the strength of the Angel off the water, and It left again. Now, you wouldn't worry wonder about weakness then, would you? See? All right. The virtue left the water at the first healing.
Now, here comes Jesus, God Himself, incarnate in His Son, Christ Jesus, tabernacled to take away sin. And sickness is an attribute of sin. All sickness originated from sin. Correct. Before we had any... If anyone could preach salvation of the soul and not preach Divine healing, I do not see how he could sensibly look at the Bible.


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