<TITLE>04. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 Now, in our text tonight Jesus had just come from Jerusalem where He had seen, no doubt, tens of thousands of people along the journey that was sick and needy. And many great things should be done, as the people would think. But "He could do nothing," He said, "until the Father showed Him first what to do," Saint John 5:19. Not one miracle did our blessed Lord perform until God showed Him first what to do. It wasn't given to Him just to take the blessings of God and throw them out any way He wished to. For the Scriptures cannot be broken. And He said, "Verily, verily I say unto thee, that the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." That's true then, because the Scriptures cannot be broken, and it's the Word of God from His lips.
And then would you ever think that all this great power that was within Him... For He was truly Jehovah God made manifest in flesh. He was no prophet. He was the Creator, the prophet God.
There's people today try to take His Divinity from Him and make Him just a mere teacher or prophet. Oh, they are so wrong. Man give Him the lowest name that they could give Him: a spiritualist, fortuneteller, Beelzebub. And they sent Him to the lowest city, till even the smallest man of the city had to look down to see Him. That's what man done to Him, but--and give Him the lowest name.
But God exalted Him so high that even He has to look down to see heaven, and give Him a Name above every name of in heaven and earth is Named Jesus. All demon powers and everything is subject to Him. Let every tongue shall confess it, and every knee shall bow in honor of that Name that God give His obedient Son. How glorious...?... that is that Name.

L-9 And to think that the Jehovah God, Who could shed forth His great glory, as we look towards the heaven, and the stars, and the solar system is more than dust in His hand. And He'd be so concerned, that even when Jesus of Nazareth passed by that simple fig tree, and looked upon it as if to find something to eat. And He said, "No man eateth from thee." In the original Greek it says, "For a season"; which the word "forever" only means "for a season." If... Forever is a space of time, because it's forever and (conjunction) forever. But in eternity has no beginning or ending.
So He said, "No man eateth from thee for a season." Now, you notice, immediately something happened to that tree, though it didn't show that it happened. And on the next day as they passed, Peter looked at the tree. And he said, "Behold the fig tree which Thou did curse yesterday is drying up." Something had taken place.
And He looked to them and said, "Verily, I say unto thee, if thou shall say to this mountain, 'Be moved and cast into the sea,' and don't doubt in your heart..." Now, in the original it says this in the Lexicon--Greek Lexicon, it says: "If you should say to this mountain, 'Be ye lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that it is being done, you shall have what you say."

L-10 We are looking for things so spontaneous, but what did He mean. You look at the mountain and say, "Be thou lifted up and thrown into the sea." And then in your heart believe that what you have said is taking place.
Maybe just one little grain of sand begin to move, through the whole mountain. You might not be able to notice it, but there's something in your heart says It's being done. You shall have what you say. That's the faith. Many of us are prayed for at night, the next morning say, "Well, there's no difference. I don't feel any different." There's where we are failing. That doesn't have to show one thing, but, "If thou believest in thy heart that what you say is being done, you shall have what you say." That's it. If you believe that what you say is already taking place, I don't have to feel it or see it. I believe it. That's the reason that it takes place.


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