<TITLE>05. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 He was a man when He come off the mountain, as we preached last night, hungry, wanting something to eat. He was a man, but when He took five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. Right. He was a man when He laid on the back of that little ship one night, tossed about like a bottle stopper in a storm. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him. He was so tired and weary until even the waves didn't wake Him up. He was a man when He was asleep, but when He put His foot on the brail of that boat, looked up, and said, "Peace, be still," and the waves obeyed Him and the winds obeyed Him, that was more than a man.

L-19 He was a man when He cried at Calvary, "My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?" He was a man when He died, but on Easter morning when He broke the seal, and rolled the stone away, and rose again, He proved He was God.
God was in His Son. He had the Spirit without portions. We have It by portion. But if you taken a little dipper of water out of the whole ocean, the same chemicals that's in the ocean will be in the water, the dipper full.

L-20 So notice, when God wanted to use His gift, He said to Jesus... Now, remember, He said, "I do nothing until My father shows Me what to do, I see the Father doing," St. John 5:19. Have you read it since we been in the meeting? St. John, "Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
The Father sent Him away from the house of Martha and Mary, Lazarus, and He took a journey. And they sent for Him to come when Lazarus got sick. He ignored it and went on. They sent again and He ignored it and went on. And finally He turned, and He said, "Lazarus's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there." Why? He knowed what was going to happen. He said, "But I go, wake him." Watch Him at the grave. "Father, I thank Thee that Thou has already heard Me. But just for these who stand by, I said it. Lazarus, come forth." And that man stood on His feet and lived again.

L-21 He never said nothing about being weak, virtue leaving Him. But when a woman touched His garment, He said, "Virtue's gone out of me." Which is the greatest miracle? To raise a man dead four days or stop a issue of blood from menopause? One of them made Him weak. Why? It wasn't God using His gift. It was a woman using God's gift. See? This way the Father had showed Him what to do. He went and done it, and this other way was the woman. Now, He never said, "I saw a vision. You're going to be well." He said, "Thy faith has saved thee: thy faith, not what Father showed Me, but what you acted on." That's what hurt Him.

L-22 Now, here it is. All right, you jump up. Look, that's what the woman's doing. It pulls; it strains. Somebody comes to the platform, stand there. You're straining. It's a gift. Who's using it? Not me. You are. You're the one that's doing it, and you set there, you say, "I believe that." Down in your heart you really mean it, then that's pulling strength. What happens? I'm pulling up. "You have a cancer." That's right. See? Then I look around... Still don't believe it. You thought I guessed it. See? Well, I'll have to go back again.
I jump up again. "And you also have TB." Whew. That's right. See? It doesn't--it doesn't jump. It doesn't work among the American people like it does the other places.
One time like that in Africa, India, the whole... They just pile up their crutches and things and go on. They seen it. They believe it. See? But we wonder, "What's it all about?" See? That's what kills me in these American meetings. See?


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