<TITLE>23. Par 80-82</TITLE>L-80 And so they gave them Bibles. They sent a million in there. Those Jews begin to read those testaments. They read it over. They never knowed Jesus was here. They never heard anything about it. Been down there since the Babylonian caraway, captivity. And they said, "If this Jesus, you call, be the Messiah, let us see Him do the sign of the prophet, like He did here in this Bible, and we will accept Him. We will all accept Him, if He will come and do the sign of the prophet. We will accept Him."
Brothers, Oh, my. I was in a couple hundred miles of it a few weeks ago, but the Holy Spirit constrained me, not just yet. Oh, how I would like to...?... a few million of them, and say, "I challenge that in the Name of the Lord Jesus. If He won't do the sign of the prophet, how many here on this same ground will accept Him as personal Saviour." And then when they do that, say, "This same grounds right here where your early fathers received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the same signs that Jesus done will repeat again just exactly like you read it in the Bible.
They don't want to have... Their God's a powerful God. Their God don't die. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and they believe it.

L-81 Notice. When Jesus was here on earth, He did not claim to be a Healer. Many people come to Him that didn't get healed. Many times perhaps He was taken to the dead. I imagine there's thousands died while He was here on earth. He never raised but three as a confirmation. He passed through the pool of Bethesda where people were laying lame, halt, blind, and withered, never healed a one of them, went over to a man laying on a pallet and healed him, walked away left the rest of them laying there.
A Man full of virtue, full of faith, God Himself, Emmanuel, here on earth, dwelling among us, He said, "I do nothing of Myself." When they questioned Him in Saint John 5:19, 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." Now, see if it applies through the Bible, and find out if it wasn't every time what the Father showed Him. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works."

L-82 When Philip got converted, went and found Nathanael brought him back, what happened? He said, "Come, see Who we've--I've found, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Joseph.
He said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?"
When he come to see Jesus, he walked up in the line about like out there. Jesus looked at him. He might've been in the prayer line, for all I know. But he come to where Jesus was praying for the sick. He said to him when He looked at him; Jesus looked over at him, said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
And when he said, "How did You know me, Rabbi?" Astonished him.
Why, He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel."


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