<TITLE>07. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." He went on with the conversation. After while, He caught what was wrong with her, where her trouble was. He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
Said, "That's right. You've got five." Why, listen. Now, listen to her, her side of it.
She said, "I perceive that You are a prophet," not a devil, a prophet. Said, "I know that Messiah is coming, and when He comes He will tell us these things." The very sign of the Messiah was there. That prostitute recognized it before the clergy did. Pretty near the same today. That's right.

L-29 When they were in there arguing on what kind of buttons they should have on their coats, three magis, fortunetellers, or whatever you want to call them, star gazers come from the east following a star and found Him. Is that right? It's true. And the clergy was wondering what kind of buttons they ought to wear on their clothes and how they must dress, having D.D.'s and so forth to their names. Just know... Just the history just repeating itself. And there laid the gift of God laying there. When He went to preaching and foretelling people and...?... or His ministry, why, they said, looked at Him; they said, "He's Beelzebub." That's the clergy.
But what did the devil say? "We know who You are, the Son of God, the holy One." Is that right?
That's where the... See, people can get so ritualistic till they lose... Even devils know more about the Spirit than they do, 'cause they deal with spiritual things. They just gets so ecclesiastical, till they just can't find God. And there's no way of finding it that way. "God has hid Himself from the eyes of the wise and prudent," He said.
And so, notice, when He talked to the woman. She said, "I know when Messiah cometh, He will say those things and do those things."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me everything I ever done. Isn't this the Messiah?" Why, He never told her all she done. He just told her that one thing. But if God could reveal that one thing to Him, He could reveal everything to Him.

L-30 So then, if you notice, a little later on He passed through the pool of Bethesda, where multitudes after multitudes of crippled, lame, halt, blind, twisted... Now, listen close. And when He passed by these people, He never touched a one of them, yet full of love and compassion. Went by them till He found a man laying on a little pallet--little pallet as we call it in the south. And so He made him well.
He--he wasn't crippled. He said, "When I'm coming down at the pool, somebody else steps in ahead of me." He... Maybe he was getting old. He'd had that disease for thirty-eight years. It wasn't going to kill him. He was just retarded. So he might've had TB or prostate trouble or something. He said, "Take up thy bed and go into your house."
Now, if you'll notice, the Scripture says before that, Jesus knew that he was there. Now, when the Jews found him and questioned Jesus, why didn't He heal all the multitude? Why didn't He make them all well?

L-31 You know what would happen in New York tonight, if we had a big meeting and there'd be a whole big... pushing a whole big lots of--of cripples, and blind, and halt, and the Lord would come down and heal maybe one person, walk away? You know what they'd say? "Uh-huh, let me see Him heal that one and I'll believe it."
See? God doesn't heal upon your desires. He heals upon the basis of your faith. That's right.
So when they questioned Jesus about it. Listen what He said, now, Saint John 5:19. Listen closely. "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: what the Father doeth, He showeth the Son. And He will show you greater than this that you may marvel. For the Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." See?


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