<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Now, God made a promise. And if we will work according to the laws of that promise, and God, His laws of the Spirit, we--He will do just exactly what it said it'll do. Now, you can't stand out, and imagine something, and holler for it, and scream for it, or do penitence, and say rosaries, and run over your knees on rocks, and--and--and go to the church and be... That--that isn't what it takes. It takes a law, and faith is what God's law is for you. You must have faith. In order to have faith, you can't base faith just on the shifting sands of man's theology. Faith takes it's everlasting stand upon the unmovable Rock of God's eternal Word and rests there.
Just like Moses' mother, when she put him in the--the little ark, and scooted him out of the bulrush. There she stood there, putting her baby in the very jaws of the alligators, and--and death, but you see, faith can take it's stand on the Rock of Ages, right over a grave and look beyond that to Him that said, "I am the Resurrection and Life." See? Faith knows no defeat. No, sir. Faith cannot be defeated.
So in order to see Jesus, we've got to have faith to believe that He's here and keeps His promise.

L-21 Now, let's go back into the Scriptures, just a little then. Now, the Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now, if we can go back in the Scripture and find out what He was yesterday, then we can expect Him to be the same today (Is that right?) if we find what He was.
Now, the first place we find that He did not claim to be a Healer, He claimed that it was His Father that dwelled in Him, did the work. We know that. And then, we--we see that He did not claim that He could just heal at random. St. John now, you that's taking down the Scriptures, St. John 5:19, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Anybody ever read that? All right. Now, did He tell... Is that the Truth or is that an error? That's the Truth. "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 worketh, and I worketh hitherto."

L-22 Now, He just passed by a great pool where thousands of people were laying, lame, halt, blind, withered, and He passed through that pool looking around. There was mothers with waterhead babies; there were people all crippled and deformed, trying to get into the water. Passed right through the crowd, never touched a one of them, and looked around, till He found a man laying on a pallet. (Now, I guess you yankees know what a pallet is? I was raised on one down south, just a quilt laying at the door.) So then they... See, this fellow was laying on a little pallet. And Jesus... The Bible said He knew that he had been in that condition for so many years, thirty-eight years, I believe. Now, see, He knew it. Father had showed Him.
And He said to that man, "Take up your bed and go into your house," and turned around and left that whole multitude, thousands of lame, halt, blind, and withered, laying there.
And He was questioned, and He said, "Verily, I say unto you the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. That doeth the Son likewise." In other words (See?), it brought it right back, the Father showed Him where that man was laying there, his condition. He went to him, healed him, walked away. Give praise to God. He could do nothing else, because Father hadn't showed Him nothing else. If that was Jesus yesterday, it's Jesus today.


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