<TITLE>14. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 He said, "For My..." That's the reason people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it was Christ speaking... or was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father speaking. He was a dual Person. He was one Man, the Son. God was in him, which was tabernacling in Him. But what did He do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the Healer." Very contrary, He said, "I'm not the Healer." He said, "It isn't Me that doth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me."
And in Saint John the 19th chapter when He was questioned for pasting a whole bunch of crippled, lame, withered, halt, blind people, healed one man laying on a pallet, the Father showed Him to go there and heal. Walked away and left the rest of them laying there, they questioned Him. A man packing his bed on the sabbath. Listen to what He said. Saint John 5:19: "Verily, verily, I say unto you: The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what he sees the Father doing, that doth the Son likewise." Is that what He said? "I do nothing till the Father shows Me a vision first what to do."

L-54 Step back in His life a little bit at the beginning of His ministry and just a couple of places for the newcomers and then we'll close. Look when Philip got converted, went over and found Nathanael, said, "Come, see who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Joseph."
Nathanael had been praying under a tree. He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, see." That's the best way to find out. Come and see.
He come up and stood in the prayer line, perhaps where Jesus was or in the audience where... Jesus as soon as He seen him... He'd never seen him in His life, standing there He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
Why, now listen close. He said, "Say, Rabbi (Reverend, Teacher), when did You know me? How do You know me? You never seen me in Your life and how do You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, fifteen miles around the mountain yonder, when you was under the tree I saw you."

L-55 There stood the priests and the rabbis, the doctors, D.D., double L.D. They said, "Do you know who he is? He's a mind reader. He's Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. Well, all the power, and all the mind readers, he's the chief of them all."
Jesus turned and said, "You'll be forgiven for that. You speak that against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven. But one day the Holy Ghost is coming (Hallelujah.) after My blood's shed yonder for you blood thirsty atheists." Said, "You're of your father the devil." He said, "When that blood is shed and the Holy Ghost comes and does the same work that I do, if you speak one word against It, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come." How many knows that's Scripture?
So be careful. Just one word is all you have to get out of line. So you see, where I stand here today? Who am I to stand here with these kind of things? See?

L-56 Now, what did this man that the miracle was performed on... You said, "A miracle? He wasn't healed." A man don't see a healing for a miracle. There's all kinds of miracles. Sure. It was a miracle that He knowed who was under the tree. It was a miracle He knowed who he was. It was a miracle He knowed their names.
So he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Because I said that, you believe it? You'll see greater than this."
That was his sign. That's the sign of the Jew. That He was the Son of God, because He could do this.


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