<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, if you wish to follow this, you could turn and read tonight... I'll just quote it, and you can check it with me now. Let's go to the book of Saint John to start with, just for a little quotation. We find out after that the Holy Spirit had come upon Him, God dwelling in Him...
And Jesus never claimed to be a Healer. How many knows that? He certainly did not. Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself. It's not Me that doeth the works: it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." And He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself," Saint John 5:19, "But what the Father... what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
Now, is that the truth? Could the Son of God lie? No, sir. That's true. Then Jesus never performed one miracle without God showing Him first what to do, or He told something wrong in Saint John 5:19.
Now, people has always had it in their mind that God's prophets, and Christ and them, just healed whatever they taken notion to heal. No, sir. Never was that granted to human flesh.
Test the prophets. Get Elijah on Mount Carmel. When he laid all these things out, he said, "Lord, I've did this at Your command." Always God moving, showing His will on what do to.

L-24 Now, we find out in Saint John the 1st chapter, after He had received of the Holy Spirit into Him, which was God in Fullness... Now, remember, Christ had the Spirit without measure. We have it by measure. The gift that we have in the church tonight is just so little up the side of what His great Spirit was. It's just like a spoonful of water out of a great mighty sea.
But if you should take a spoonful of water from the sea, and take it into the laboratory, and examine it, all of the chemicals that was in the sea would be represented in that spoonful of water. It'd be the same kind of water, yet not as much.

L-25 That's the way the Spirit is in the Church. It's the same Spirit, but not in the Fullness like He received It. His disciples had been completely defeated on a epileptic case. And just before that He'd gave them power to cast out devils, to heal the sick, to raise the dead. And they were totally defeated on a epileptic case.
And the father said, "I brought him to Your--to Your disciples," and he said, "I... They could not cure him." And he said, "Lord, if thou can, have mercy on us."
Jesus said, "Bring him here. If you believe, I can."
And when the spirit saw that great power of God, they knowed that was more than a spoonful that they had found in the disciples. And the spirit was defeated, of course. It threw the boy in the hardest fit he ever had perhaps, and wallowed on the ground. But yet, when Jesus said, "Take him up. Give him some food; he's all right."...
Now, in the 1st chapter we find that there was a man who got converted and went and got his friend, his brother Peter, Andrew. And when Peter came up to the Lord Jesus... Follow close, Saint John 1. When Peter came to Jesus, Jesus not only knew him, but knew who his father was. Jesus said, "You are Simon, but you shall be called Peter." That's little stone." And said, "Your father's name is Jonas." That's what the Scripture says. He knew Peter, knew his name, and knew his father's name.


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