<TITLE>16. Par 57-59</TITLE>L-57 Watch, for Jesus knew that he had been in this way a long time. He knew where he was at. Just a minute we'll get to it. He said, "I have no man to put me in the water, Sir." Well now, he could walk. He said, "When I was coming down, somebody (in other words) outruns me and gets in there first." He could walk; he could get around. He wasn't lame, neither was he halt, blind, lame. He just had some kind of retarded disease. He said, "While I'm coming to the water, someone steps down ahead of me."
Jesus said, "Take up your bed, go on to your house."
Man picks up his bed and away he went. The Jews caught him, questioned him. They questioned Jesus. Now, Saint John 5:19, listen close now, I have to close. Jesus said, when He was questioned by the Jews. You think He'd be questioned here tonight? If He done a thing like that here tonight, you think He'd be questioned? Certainly, He would, by the same spirit that questioned Him then. But that...
If--if there's something there to question, there's a Spirit here to react. Just exactly the way He did. And listen to what He said. And if it's the true Spirit of God, it'll bring the same reaction it brought then. If the devil is the same to put it to question, then Christ is the same to react the same way that He did then. Amen.
What did He say? He said, "Verily, verily..." That's absolutely, absolutely, Saint John 5:19 now: "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." You know that's in the Bible? Saint John 5:19.

L-58 Look, then Jesus Christ did not perform one miracle, or do one thing, without first God gave Him a vision to do it. Is that His Words? "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." For what things the Father doeth, He showeth the Son. The Father worketh, I worketh hitherto. In other words, "I only go do what Father tells me to do." That's Scripture, isn't it? That was Jesus yesterday.
If that was Jesus yesterday, it'll answer the same thing today, or He didn't raise from the dead. And if He did raise from the dead, He's got to be the same today as He was then. That clear? Amen.

L-59 Look at Him, "Only what the Father shows Me to do." Wish we could take a week on this and go back and show the prophets did the same thing, just as God showed. It's not a bluff, make believe, run over; it's something definitely.
Now, did Jesus--after He left, did that mean the end of it? No, sir. Listen at Him as He was leaving; He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you," that's always His words, He says directly to the Church. Here's one, the--Saint John 5:7, I believe it is. No, I beg your pardon, Saint John 14:7. He said, "The things... He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also." Did He say that? Is that inspired? That's the Word of God.
Jesus said, "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." What is the world? The Greek word "kosmos" there, which means "the world order." See? "The world, the unbelievers will see Me no more." I'll put it like that. "A little while, and the unbelievers will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me (ye): for I'll be with you to the end of the world." I'll be with you, and again He said, "I'll be in you, be with you, even in you unto the end of the world."
Now, what was it? The people who could only see with the natural sight, understanding with their natural understanding, with their mental thinking, that's the end of Jesus forever for them, until the judgment. "The world will see Me no more; yet you shall see Me, for I will be with you to the end of the world." And 'I' is a personal pronoun which means that Jesus has to be here the same tonight to every believer that He was then, or He did not raise from the dead. Amen.


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