<TITLE>10. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 The woman touched His garment. Virtue went out, and she got her healing.
But there was Roman Soldier who put a band of rags around His head, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "Prophesier, tell us who hit you, and we'll believe you." He never opened His mouth and said a word to him. God doesn't clown. He doesn't have to. He's God.
You're the one that needs to plead for mercy. You're indebtiment to God and not God to you. It's your indebtiment, and not His. He's done everything He can to redeem you, sending signs, wonders, miracles, send His Son and He died. Sent prophets, and so forth, and still they wade right on in sin as if it had never been anything happen.

L-42 Then if you spurn mercy, only one thing's left; that's judgment. If you run a red light and get hit, don't blame the city. You should've stopped. If you wind up in a hell someday, don't blame God. He's waved everything across the front of you that He can wave. Even the Blood of His own holy Son, and you've constantly waved right on by. The songs of the church, the preaching of the Gospel, the reading of the Word, signs and wonders before you, and still blindly just determined to go whether God stops you or not. God sends nobody to hell. You send yourself to hell by rejecting His Son.

L-43 Then there, as this great crowd went by, some throwing over ripe tomatoes and--and apples and things at Him. There He goes, a Man that's talked about, and despised, and called a devil, a mind reader. A man when He first started His ministry, they brought a man to Him. He was an ignorant, unlearned man by the name of Simon. And as soon as he come into the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas."
There was one standing there, said, "That's the Messiah." He rushed over fifteen miles around the mountain and gets his friend, said, "Come, see Who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
He said, "Now, wait a minute. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see." That's the best message to give anybody. Don't stay home and criticize. Come and find out for yourself. Don't take what somebody else says. Divide it with the Scripture and see if it's a promise of God, then check it by the Word.

L-44 And when he come into the presence of Jesus, perhaps Nathanael told him, said now--Philip told him on the road around, said, "When you come into His presence, you remember that old fisherman? He told him who he was and who his father was. Why, when you come in His presence, He will probably tell you who you are."
"Nonsense," said the other one, "I don't believe it."
And when he got into the presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
It astonished him; he said, "Rabbi (or Teacher), when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you." Fifteen miles around the mountain the day before. What eyes. Said, "The works that I do, shall you also."
What had He done but good, but because He didn't cope with their modern belief, they were ready to crucify Him, and He knew it, being a Prophet. Not only a prophet, He was more than a prophet; He was God made flesh among us. It makes me so tore up when I hear this modern day, that tries to relate to Jesus Christ as being just a prophet.


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