<TITLE>05. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Now, Jesus, when He was here on earth, the works and signs and wonders that He did then, now He will do it again tonight. He will do it every time that His Word is put to a showdown, He will do it, for He has to in order to be the resurrected Jesus.
Now, if He doesn't do it, then He never raised from the dead. That's right. He's still dead. But we don't worship a dead God. We worship a living God Who's raised from the dead, and lives here among us tonight, and doing the same things tonight that He did back there.
Now, for the newcomers we might ask this: "What did He do back there? What kind of a Man was He? What kind of works did He do?"
Well, He didn't entertain too big of crowds. He'd have up sometimes five thousand in a crowd. The Sanhedrin could've called two million in a crowd. So He didn't say that He just drawed the biggest crowds in the country. That doesn't mean that He was right.

L-21 He didn't dress any different from anybody else. He was no great, big man and a high statue like Saul. The Bible said, "There was no beauty we should desire Him. And when we seen Him, we hid our face from Him." See? He was just nothing much to look at.
But what He was, what makes us love Him. He was the Son of God. That's what makes us love Him.
Someone might say, "Well, was He a yellow man, black man, white man, brown man?" I don't care what He was, what He looked like. He's my Saviour. I love Him. Don't make any difference whether He was little, big or--or what He was. I love Him. For when we are born into Him, we become a part of Him. We love Him, and He is ours, and we are His.

L-22 But when He was here on earth, He didn't claim that He was a great healer. Frankly, He claimed just the vice versa. He said He wasn't no healer. He said, "I can do nothing in Myself. Just what I see the Father doing, that's what I do." Saint John 5:19.
He was questioned. He'd healed one man laying on a pallet with some kind of a disease or something. The man could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down to the pool somebody steps in ahead of me."
But look what He passed by: maybe three or four times as many people that's in here tonight, and every one of them was lame, hopped, twisted, withered, and blind. Just look what a condition. And He passed right through every one of them, went and healed this one, and walked away, and left the rest of them there. To the natural mind, it would be questioned.
As I have said, there's three elements that people dwell in. This first one is humanistic. We, down here we say, "Well, I'll pray for that person. I--I--I'm hoping that now they'll get well."
Now, next is Divine revelation. That's when something down in your heart anchors it, and says it's going to happen. Then something is going to happen.
Then the third element is vision, or the Word of the Lord made manifest. When you see that, it's THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-23 Now, Jesus, when He was passing by the gates of Jericho, a blind man run out to Him, begin to cry, and, "Have mercy on me," blind Bartimaeus. And Jesus had His face set to Calvary to go to be crucified, and He, perhaps, never even heard the man.
So he cried the much louder, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me." Somehow, the man's faith touched Jesus and He turned around and told him his faith had made him well.
A woman one time touched His garment. For in her heart she said, "If I can touch His garment, He's a holy Man. I believe Him to be what He says He is. If I can just only touch Him, I'll be made well of my plague."
And she touched Him, turned right around, walked out into the audience. Jesus stopped, looked around over the audience, found where she was at. He said, "Thy faith has made thee whole. Your plague's gone now." That was Jesus. He only did as the Father showed Him.


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