<TITLE>09. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 If that was the sign of the Messiah then, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's got to be the sign of Messiah tonight. That's what the Jews thought. That's what the Samaritans thought. What do you Gentiles think about it? You're western people; this is your day. That was their day; this is your day. Christ is obligated to be the same to you as He was to them, or there's a respect of person in Him. He's obligated to do it.
Let's take Him one more Scripture. There was some people crying, He'd saw He must go visit Jairus' house and heal his little girl. And there was a woman with a blood issue, and she said within her heart, "If I can only touch that Man's garment, I'll be made well." And she pressed through the crowd until she touched His garment.
Physically He did not feel it, the Palestinian garment is a loose garment. And they have a underneath garment that goes down about the knees, to keep the dust off. As they walk the road picks up the dust and comes up, and that's the reason they washed their feet; they're dusty. And along the road where the horses is, and animals, they have an awful smell of the dust, so they have to wash it off before they are fit--or--or feel welcome to come into a house of a guest; they wash their feet.

L-32 And the lowest paid man in the whole group is a flunky that washes the feet. And how Jesus become a foot-wash flunky. And then we think we're somebody, because we can ride in an automobile and get sixty dollars a week wages. And then we think we're somebody, and we just have to go about and have to have the very best or we won't go.
How about the prophets who wandered about in sheepskin and goatskin, deserts, and destitute, and starved. The Bible said in Hebrews the 11th chapter, "Whom the world is not worthy of such people." And look what a requirement Christianity gives today. Nice plush seats, a smart eloquent speaker, not over fifteen minutes. Oh, my. Preachers have to be promised so much or they won't go to a certain place. They won't take pastoral 'less they give them so much money, a cadillac each year, and so forth.
It's a disgrace, that's right, we got no right to require such as that. Now, you may think I'm an awful hard preacher, but my brother, truth is truth. We must face it.

L-33 This little woman touched His garment, and she run back, stood in the audience, and Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
Why Peter rebuked Him, said, "The whole crowd's a touching You. Why do you say, 'Who touched Me'?"
He said, "But I perceive that I've gotten weak, virtue, strength has gone from Me. Somebody touched Me."
That was Jesus yesterday. The Bible said today that He's the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
He looked around; every one of them denied it; she denied it; all denied it. But He was endued with power, the Holy Spirit. He watched over that audience until He found the one that touched Him. And He said, "Thy faith has saved thee from that blood issue."


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