<TITLE>18. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 The Bible said, before I finish my story on India, 'cause I want you to get that. The Bible said that the Christ... God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. God and Christ were One. They were One. And not as they were one as your finger, as we've had frictions on that too, when it ought not to have never been. And today, we hold grudges. I don't think the preachers do. It's the congregation. Did you notice the order of II Timothy 4? They shall heap for themselves together teachers, having itching ears, and be turned from the Truth, the Word, to fables, fantastics, and so forth. See? I don't think it's the ministers. I've gathered with hundreds of them. I see them reach across the tables with different denominations, shake one another's hands, and be brothers. See? It's the--it's the sheep that's bleating wrong. See?

L-58 Now, God gave Christ the Spirit without measure. Is that right? The Fullness of God was in Christ. He was God Emmanuel. We know that. There's no--there's no doubt in our minds of that. Just like as I said yesterday, "The whole ocean full of water, all the waters from the ocean was in Christ. But this little gift that you see working here, is just a teeny, little teeny bit of--like that--on the spoon laying there, just a drop." I can see it. But in Christ was the Fullness of God. We have it by measure. He had it without measure, the Bible says. See? Without measure, no way, He's just limited--unlimited. He had the Spirit of God.
Now, the subject is, water. Now, one day, when God, knowing that His Spirit dwelt fully in Christ, He wanted to use His Sp--His gift that was in a Man the corporal body called Jesus, which was His dwelling place. The body is a tabernacle. God was tabernacling here on earth. Do you believe that, brethren? In the body, Christ.

L-59 Now, God wanted to use His gift, so He showed His Son to leave the home of Lazarus and Martha, and then--and to go away for several days, 'cause Lazarus was going to die. And after the appropriated days that the Father... 'Cause Jesus said, "I do nothing in Myself, but what I see the Father doing," John 5:19 as I refer to it many times. Jesus only did what the Father showed Him. Is that right? The Bible said it was. Jesus said so, and that settles it. Now, then when God picked up His gift and took it over here and stayed away, until the amount of time was finished, and He looked over to His disciples, and said, "Our friend, Lazarus, sleepeth." He knowed the time was fulfilled.
He said, "Well, if he sleepeth, he doeth well." He's taking a sleep, a rest.
He said, "But he's dead. And for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there." 'Cause they'd be trying to get Him to pray for him, which would be contrary to the will of God. See, we've got to follow God, as the sister said of her husband, "The footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord."

L-60 Now, He said, "I'm glad I wasn't there, but I go wake him." You get it? Look at the grave; He said, "Father, I thank Thee as Thou has already heard Me (See?), but for these that stand by I said it, Lazarus, come forth." And the man the had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again. We believe that to be authentically the Word of God, the Truth.
In a few days, a woman, a little woman, insignificant, probably a little farmer's wife who is perhaps in the time of menopause, had a issue of blood, come through, and she believed that that was God in there. She believed that that was God. So she said, "If I can only..."
As Brother Roberts has said many times, "Get a point of contact."
"If I can only get my point of contact, I'm going to touch His garment, and I'll be made whole, because I believe if I can get any touch of that, God's in there." See? And when Christ was touched physically, materially with the woman's hand, God inside, gave a witness.


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