<TITLE>09. Par 14-14</TITLE>L-14 And Jesus going around, all those crippled and twisted, and blind... What do you think He'd do tonight if He passed through New York, and passed by them people? The same thing they'd said back there, just what they said. "Let me see Him heal this one, and I'll believe it." God doesn't heal on them conditions. No. "Let me see Him make these well. Let me see Him..."
"Why," say, "well, now if You're Emmanuel, why don't You raise Your hands and say, 'Every one of you go home. You're well.'"
I believe, if He would've done that, they'd all went home well. But He didn't do it. Wonder why? Now, He said, He was full of love and compassion, why didn't He do it?
He walked over to this one man, not no bad shape, not a bad shape at all. He walked over to him and said, "Will thou be made whole?"
And the man said, "Sir, I have no man to help me in the water; while I'm coming down, someone gets ahead of me." In other words, "A young fellow don't knock them out of the way and so forth, till I can get into the water. They're stabbing one another with knives, and things to get in. How can an old man like that make his way ahead of the young folks?" Said, "I have no one to bust the way for me, in otherwise, to get me in. While I'm coming, somebody's done beat me in."
Jesus said, "Take up your bed and go unto your house." Is that the Scripture. And then, instead of turning around, say, "All the rest of you do the same, you and the cots, and the stretches, and the blind, and the lame, all, all of you do the same thing." Instead of doing that, He turned around, and walked away, and left every one of them laying there. Full of love and compassion...
The thing of it is, friends, the human mind today, without the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, don't know what compassion means. Neither do you know what love means.
Look at I Corinthians 13. How would you--how would you interpret I Corinthians 13 as love? "Though I have all these fine gifts," Paul said, "though I give my body to be burned a sacrifice for the Lord Jesus Christ, though I give all my goods to feed the poor," and everything? Isn't that love? But that's not Bible love. See? You're talking about natural affection instead of Divine revelation of the will of God.


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