<TITLE>15. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 Now, that was Jesus two thousand years ago today. If He has raised from the dead, that's got to be Jesus tonight, just the same. Do you believe it? It's true. He raised from the dead. Once more and then we will close. Notice Him. Here He is... Let's go over to Saint John 5. We can just take the entire Bible, laying it out from Genesis to Revelation. He's just Jesus all the time.
Notice in Saint John 5. He was going down to the Pool of Bethesda, which is where the porches, five porches laid there, and there's a sheep market, where they had a--a pool of water. And great multitudes, which is many hundreds of people, lay there waiting for the moving of the water, for an Angel came down every once in a while and troubled the water. You people living near the rivers here, you know what troubled water is? Current going one way and wind like, blowing it another, making it contrary, very dangerous waters.
And he said... When this water was troubled like that, whosoever having faith, stepped in first, was made well of whatever disease they had. Now, notice. Now, watch the kind of people, Now, in closing, watch the kind of people that's laying there: lame, blind, halt, and withered. What a crowd: lame, blind, halt, and withered, laying, waiting for the moving of the water.

L-49 Here He comes, garments full of virtue. Woman touched His garment and was made well. Here He comes, walking right through the pool. Walked by that mother with that water head baby, walked by that poor old blind daddy standing there with arthritis and blind, walked by them others laying there, why, and being a merciful God, having compassion?
But, friends, little later when we get acquainted, you don't know what compassion means. Compassion, humanly speaking, is one thing. Compassion, Godly speaking, is another thing. Like the two loves. You have one love, which is human love, Phileo, called in the Greek. Then you have Agapao love, which is Divine love. They're contrary one to another. Phileo love would make you shoot your brother because he loved your wife. But Agapao love would make you put your arm around him and pray for him. That's right. See, it's altogether different.

L-50 And now, that's the same thing with compassion. He passes through that great multitude, many hundreds of people laying there. Could you imagine the lovely Jesus, passing through the stretchers, and wheelchairs, and cots, and went over to a man laying on a little, we call it in Kentucky, a pallet. How many knows what a pallet is? I slept half my life on one. Look. A pallet... And down here on the hillside, you're not far enough down yet to really be Kentuckians, wait till you get on down here where you almost visit on a grapevine; that's when you're really in Kentucky. So old log house, and little old bare floor in it, and the kids lay by the door at night time to keep cool on a pallet. And daytime mama with a big old fly-bush a fanning the flies off of them. Oh, yeah, I know what it's all about. Yeah. I'm happy for it. Amen.
Notice, God came to one of those places and saved me from sin. I guess it's all right. All right. Let me preach the Gospel around the world. Almost a million souls now, been able to win to Him, by His grace. And think of it.


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