<TITLE>12. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 I have read to you, and quoted to you out of God's Eternal Word. And Jesus said... How many knows that Jesus claimed not to be a Healer? You mean you don't believe that? The Bible said, Jesus said Hisself, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work." Saint John 5:19, He see a great big place where there's ten times as many crippled and blind, afflicted people, that's setting in this building tonight, at this beautiful gate of the pool. Lame, halt, blind, withered, and here He comes through that crowd, looking around, until He found a man laying on a pallet. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?"
Why didn't He say it to the lame or blind man? And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water, Sir, when I'm coming..." He could walk. He'd it thirty-eight years; it wasn't going to kill him; it was retarded. He said, "When I'm coming towards the water, someone else steps ahead of me."
He said, "Take up your bed and go on." There he went...?...

L-41 And the Rabbis and Priest picked him up. So Jesus was brought to question. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you..."
In other wise, "Why don't You heal all the rest of them? Why don't You do this? Why did You do this on the Sabbath?"
He said, "Verily, verily (that's absolutely, absolutely), I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing."
The Father showed Him that man was there and in that condition. Same thing He did the woman at the well, same thing He did at Philip, on back. That was God working through His Son. Now, tonight, God's universal in all of His Church as the Vine and we are the branches.

L-42 Now, there was a woman one time who couldn't get to Him. And she said within herself, "If I can touch that Man's garment, I'll be made well."
And she pressed through the crowd, through her priest and till she got to where He was. And everybody patting Him on the back, "Rabbi, we're glad to have You over here." He's on His way to raise up Jairus' daughter. And this little woman just touched His garment. Now, if you've ever seen the Palestinian garment, it hangs loose, and it's got a underneath garment. See? He couldn't have felt that physically. She touched His garment, and she went off and set down, or stood up, wherever it was, out in the audience. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me? Who touched Me?"
And Peter, looking at it the way a man would look today, he rebuked Him and said, "Why, do You say who touched Me? Everybody's touching You."
He said, "But I've gotten weak. Virtue's gone from Me." Somebody's touched with a different kind of a touch, other wise. That's the touch we're talking about, not the intellectual conception, but something that comes from the realm that really touches.

L-43 "Oh, sure, I touched Him; I put my name on the church book; I joined the church; I was baptized; I..." That's a touch all right, that ain't the touch that...?...
"Who touched Me?" Nobody said nothing. He looked out into the audience till He found the little woman, and He told her what had happened, had troubles with a blood issue; said, Your faith has saved you."
Brother, sister, if I never meet you again, until it's at the judgment seat of Christ, where the deeds that's done in the body could be made manifest, let me ask you this question and you answer me sanely: If He's the High Priest today that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, wouldn't He have to act in the same manner that He did then, if He is the same? Certainly. If you just set in that audience and He was, As...


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