<TITLE>17. Par 60-61</TITLE>L-60 How many knows this again? That when He was here on earth He made this statement and 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." Let's...?... Then when Jesus... That's Saint John 5:19, 5:19.
When He passed through that pool where all them crippled and blind and lame was laying there, He went to a man. The Father had showed Him where this man was laying. And He went to this man. He'd knowed he'd been sick for all this time, and--thirty-eight years. And so He--He told him that he was healed. And he picked up his bed and walked. And the Jews found him and questioned him about it, being the Sabbath, and so forth. But He--He only did as the Father showed Him. Then do you believe that He was full of mercy, full of compassion, had mercy on the people? Then how could He have mercy on the people and pass by all them lame, blind, halt, lame, and afflicted and not heal them? 'Cause they don't know... You--you wouldn't know what mercy means, what compassion means.

L-61 Just like I've always said about love. There's two different kinds of love. Do you believe that? Some people gets them mixed up. Like some people in being borned of the Holy Spirit, they get mixed up in the new spirit that Jeremiah said that God said in the last days, "I'll write My Spirit upon their hearts... I'll write My law in their hearts, and I will give them a new spirit," and then He said, "I'll give them My Spirit." And many people get the new spirit... Well, you have to have the new spirit... You can't get along with your neighbor, let alone with God. See? So you have to have a new spirit before you can get along with the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes when you get the new spirit, you think then that you've got the Holy Spirit, but it isn't; it's the new spirit. The Holy Spirit will witness Jesus Christ. But if you just join church, went up and knew that you should do right, that's just a new spirit. That's a--a spirit God give you, but not His Spirit yet. See? You've come into Christ by the Holy Spirit baptism. I Corinthians 13 says, "By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body," spiritual baptism into the body of Christ. Then you're secured with Christ. He doesn't amputate any arms, legs, or eyes, or anything of His body. He's perfect.
And you can't be perfect, but as long as you're in Christ, you are perfected by His vicarious suffering and death at the cross. God doesn't see your sins. He sees nothing but one perfect Person, the body of Jesus Christ. He can't. That's the reason Balaam, the hired prophet, thought surely God would curse Israel, because look at the things they had done wrong. But he failed to see the smitten rock, and the brass serpent going before him, making atonement. God couldn't see through the atonement, His blood that answered its place. See?


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