<TITLE>12. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 He works through His branches. No matter how much He works through one, but He works through all His branches. He just can't work through one branch. No matter what God could do in one place, if there isn't an audience out there to receive it, and to believe it, it'll never work. Jesus didn't even know nothing about that woman. God hadn't showed Him a vision, yet He said, "He didn't do nothing till God showed Him a vision." Do you believe that?
Let's take just for a minute, and find out a few days later. He passed through the pool of Bethesda, where great multitudes of lame, halt, blind, withered people were laying. Watch Him. Full of virtue, God in Him, walking among the people, around through the lame, halt, blind, and withered. He come down the steps into the pool, where people were there, waiting for an Angel to trouble the waters.

L-41 In every age, God's had some representative on the earth for healing of the body--an Angel. Many people thought they were fanatic; some thought it was just... Historians thought it was water, the wind circling around and troubling the water. But the Bible said it was an Angel. And they were waiting to get into the water, to test their faith. While they were waiting there, here come Jesus walking through the--around the lame, blind, halt, withered, and come to a man, that was laying on a pallet.
How many knows what a pallet is? And I was raised on one. It's a little old quilt laying down at the door, a pallet.
And as He saw this man, He knew that he'd been in this condition for thirty-eight years. He wasn't lame, halt, blind; he had an infirmity, maybe TB, maybe a prostate trouble; however, it was retarded. It wasn't going to kill him; he'd had it thirty-eight years. And watch Him passing by all these people, and going to this one, and healing him.

L-42 The man was packing his bed on the Sabbath. He was questioned. Saint John 5, now, still in Saint John, 5th chapter, the 19th verse, if you want to mark it, 5:19. Jesus was questioned. And listen what He said, "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." Other words, "I do nothing until the Father shows Me first what to do."
See, it was although no flesh can glory in the presence of God. God was in Christ. And if Christ is in you, then your faith is like the faith that was in Christ. You believe the Father, for you are sons and daughters of God by the adoption by Jesus Christ. Ephesians, 1st chapter, about the 5th verse: predestinated to the adoption of the children of God through Christ.

L-43 Now notice, that was Jesus yesterday, how He manifested Himself. Now, I'll close here until tomorrow. Look, how did He make Hisself known to the Jews? By telling Philip or Nathanael, where he was before Philip found him: under the tree praying, or whatever he was doing. And he... Philip, had instructed him, no doubt, that Jesus could do that. Do you believe He can still do that?
Then when He made Hisself known to the Samaritans, it was by the same way, talking to a woman till He found her trouble, and told her what her trouble was. And she declared it that, it... She knew that the Messiah would do that. And did you notice, when Jesus went into the city, He didn't have any healing service in the city? Why? He knew that there'd be another man come down, a little deacon, right after Pentecost and he had a... Philip, he had a real revival down there. Do you remember that? Healing the sick, and casting out devils, 'cause they'd had the Word of God preached to them.


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