<TITLE>14. Par 41-42</TITLE>L-41  Now, Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. And the branch will certainly bear the fruit of the vine. Is that true? Grafted or whatever it may be, it's got to bear the life of the vine because it's living from the vine. Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you also." Well then, "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, ask what you will and it'll be given." Then notice... Would a peach tree bear peaches? A grapevine would bear grapes. A watermelon would bear watermelon. The Spirit of Christ will bear the Life of Christ. Does the Scripture say He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? If He declared Himself in thus manor, as we've just said, before the Jews and the Samaritans, and forbid it to be done to the Gentiles... Two thousand years of Gentile church theology, you see where we've got. But isn't He obligated to declare Himself the same to the Gentiles as He did to them? As I said last night, God doesn't get any smarter; His first decision is perfect and it's forever. When a--an occasion arises and God acts, and that same occasion would arise again, God's got to act in the same manner as He did the first time or He acted wrong the first time. He can't be different, He has to be the same.

L-42  So, let me give you another Scripture now; something comes on my heart. Last evening we called prayer cards up here, people who had cards with numbers on them. And they come up to the platform, and the Lord God was here to make known and to heal the people just like He did at the beginning. All that was here to see that, raise up your hands that knows that's true. I'm going to give you another Scripture tonight and we'll--different, the Lord willing.
Now, there was a little weak woman in the Bible, who thought and believed, yet without seeing Him, that He was the Son of God. So, you see, it's your approach to God what brings the results. As I said, there's a Roman put a--a rag around His head and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "You prophesy or tell us who hit you, we'll believe you." He didn't feel any virtue.
But there was a little woman who pressed through the crowd and touched His garment, for she said, "If I can just touch His garment, I'll be made well." A little woman who'd had an issue of blood for many years, and nothing could help her... And when she touched Him, she went off into the audience. Maybe she set down or stood up, I don't know.
 But anyhow, she was out in the audience of people. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?" How many knows that's the Scripture? "Who touched Me?"
And Peter rebuked Him. He said, "Why, everybody's touching You," in otherwords, patting Him, "How do you do," and, "Glad to see you, Rabbi. Have you come for a revival?"
Peter said, "Everybody's touch you. Why do You say things like that?"
Jesus said, "But I got weak; virtue has gone from Me." And He looked around until He found the little woman, and He said to her her trouble--that her faith had made her well. Is that right?


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