<TITLE>19. Par 79-82</TITLE>L-79 That's the reason we have prayer cards to keep such things from happening. See? He said, "We have no one to put in the water, when the water's troubled."
And He said, "Well, take up your bed and go into your house."
And the man didn't say, "Now, wait a minute. Who are You anyhow? Do you know my conditions? Well, man, I've been here for years." It would've never happened. No, he did not. He obeyed. Obedience is better than sacrifice. He picks up the pallet, rose it up, and lays it on his shoulder, and goes down praising God. It's all over.
Read on down. For the sake of the time there, I want to stop at the--at the--at the 19th verse of the same chapter. Jesus had been brought to question. I suppose if the mayor of the city here had invited the Lord Jesus to the city, and had brought all the lame, halt, blind, and withered and laid them in the street, and Jesus walked through and did something like that, I imagine He'd be questioned in Sturgis, don't you think so?

L-80 But that was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same, it's the same today. So He was questioned. Now, listen at His question. Listen at His answer. "Verily, verily, I say unto you..." But the principle question there was a man packing his bed on the sabbath.
But He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you..." Listen close now. That's "Absolutely, absolutely, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Is that right? "The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." What was He saying? "I do nothing until I see by vision first what the Father told Me to do."

L-81 The woman touched His garment; virtue went out. But there was no virtue went out when the Father had told Him to go away from the house of Lazarus and wait four days till he died. He said, "I'm glad I wasn't there for your sake, 'cause if he asked Me to come back and raise him up, or come back and pray for him when he was sick," and the Father done told Him... 'Cause Jesus couldn't lie. He was God, so He couldn't lie. So He said, "I--I do nothing till the Father shows Me. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."
Now, when He went away, He said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me. I'll be with you, in you, to the end of the world." The Bible said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." If He's raised from the dead as we claim He has, and believe He has, He's obligated to His Word. I'm obligated to my word. And I'm no better than my word. And you're no better than your word. And God's no better than His Word.

L-82 This is either the truth or it is an error. And if God promised in this Bible that Jesus Christ was the same yesterday, today, and forever, that's either the truth or it is not. And I believe that He ascended on high. His corporal body sets in the Presence of God the Father tonight, at the right hand of the majesty of God.
And the Holy Spirit, which was in Christ, is in the church. And He is the vine, the energy Giver, and you are the branches. He has no other mouth tonight on earth but yours, no eyes but yours. You are the branches. The vine doesn't bear fruit. The branch bears fruit. The vine only gives the energy. Is that right?


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