<TITLE>11. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 And if it laid within my power, I would be so happy tonight, if I had power to heal the sick people that's in this building. Mostly the people that come to my services, they hear the preaching and so forth, are sick people and needy. If I had the power to do it, I would do it, my loving friends. I certainly would do it. I have not the power to do it. And I say this with respect and reverence, I don't believe there's a man on earth has power to do it, not Divine healing. Because Divine healing was purchased at Calvary. It's your faith in a finished work. Christ healed you when He striped for you at Calvary. "He was (past tense) wounded for our transgressions. With His stripes we were (past tense) healed."

L-43 Now, you cannot pay for the thing twice, it's already purchased. If our Lord Jesus stood here tonight, on this platform, and a sick person would come to Him and say, "My Lord and Master, I recognize You to be my Lord and my Master; I am sick and needy, oh Master, will You heal me?"
What do you think He would say? It would have to be something on this manner, "Child, can you not take My Word that I have done that?" He could not say, "Yes, I will heal you." Because He has already done it, certainly He has.
When He was here on earth, the Lord Jesus, did He claim that He healed the people? Be careful. No, He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work." How many knows that? He doeth the works.
Now, if He does the work then, then what did Jesus say in Saint John 5:24, or let's see, no, in Saint John 5:19 it is. Jesus after He passed the pool of Bethesda, where the crippled and blind was laying... The Father had showed Him a vision, and He went down and looked through that crowd till He found a certain person that was laying on a little pallet. And the little pallet...

L-44 How many knows what a pallet is? That's good. I was raised on one. Just a quilt laying on the floor. There was a big bunch of children; we didn't have bedroom for all, so we--I slept most of the time, being the oldest in the family, on a little pallet.
And this man was laying on a little pallet. And Jesus come by and seen him, and knew that he'd been in this condition for many years. He said, "Take up your bed, go to your house." Walked away and left the rest of them. Why? Father hadn't showed Him nothing about them. Then he was questioned, the man with the bed on his shoulder, and then Jesus was questioned. And here's 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 do; that doeth the Son likewise.
Now, that... It is the truth, or it is an error? If that's an error, then Jesus was false. Jesus never performed one miracle, without first, God showing Him in a vision what to do, or He told something wrong there. If He told something wrong, He wasn't the Son of God. "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." See?

L-45 Lazarus, the resurrection, all these things, the Father had showed Him.
Now, there was a little woman...?... coming through the audience, and she did not--the Father had not showed her--showed Him nothing concerning her. But she believed. So she went through the crowd, and she touched His garment, and went out and set down. And Jesus turned, and He said, "Now, who has touched Me?"
And Peter rebuked Him, said, "Lord, the whole crowd is touching You, and why say, 'Who touched Me?'"
Jesus said, "But I got weak (Strength, virtue, and anyone knows "virtue" means 'strength,'); virtue has gone from Me; I got weak."
Then He looked around over the audience until He found the little lady. And then she had a blood issue, and He told her that she was healed; her faith had made her well. And she felt in her heart that the blood issue stopped, and she was well. Oh, what a difference.


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