<TITLE>13. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, if He made Hisself known to both Jew and Samaritan and not one time to the Gentiles... Search the Scriptures. And down through the two thousand years, not one time has it been done until just the last few years. Why? The sun is setting, the Messiah has returned to His Church, giving you the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and blessing you, and trying to get you to look up, for your redemption's drawing near. And the church...
God throws His gifts before the church, and the church said, just sets like the little lad, paralyzed. Oh, God, have mercy upon our sinful souls. If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever... Remember what He said? One more Scripture I wish to quote, this, Saint John 5:19; don't forget, 5:19. Jesus went to the pool of Bethesda. There laid men crippled, multitudes, thousands of them, more than there is setting here tonight, lame, blind, halt and withered. He went right to that pool and never touched a one, and looked around till He found a man that was laying on a pallet. Now, you southerners know what a pallet is, I was raised on one, and a little pallet laying at the door.

L-40 And this man was laying on a pallet. He wasn't paralyzed; he wasn't lame; neither was he halt; he had an infirmity. Might've been prostate trouble; it might have been tubercular. It was retarded; he had it thirty eight years. It wasn't going to kill him. And Jesus said to him, "Sir, will thou be made whole?"
Why not the man over here? Why not this one here that's paralyzed? Why not... And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water. I can't run very good, when somebody's coming, runs down ahead of me and gets into the water."
He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house."
He never argued a bit, picked up his bed, put it on his shoulder, and went walking on. The Jews questioned Him. They'd question today. The church would question today. Listen what He said, Saint John 5:19; don't forget, 5:19: "Verily, verily (That's absolutely, absolutely.), I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Not what He hears the Father doing, not what's revealed the Father's will, but what He sees the Father doing. The Scriptures cannot be broken. Jesus either told the truth there or told a story. He said He didn't do one thing until the Father showed Him by a vision what to do first. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to do the same as He did then. Do you believe it?

L-41 I believe Billy said he give out a bunch of prayer cards. Some of you won't be on the platform. Now, we're fixing to call those cards to the platform. You been a long time, early yet. Used to go to dances and stay all night when it's hotter than this. You ever go to hell, you wished you have an opportunity to set in a hot place like this. They haven't got any fans, and it's not air conditioned.
Listen, I want to say something here. There was a little woman, one time, who believed Him to be what He said He was. And she slipped through a crowd, and she touched His garment, and went over, and set down, or stood up, or whatever she did. And Jesus stopped. Now, listen close. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
Why, Peter rebuked Him. I can imagine Peter saying something like this, "Lord, looky here in my eye, what's the matter with You? Who touched You? When here's at least a thousand people here patting You on the back and shaking Your hand, what's went wrong with You? What's the matter, who touched Me?"
But Jesus said, "I perceive that I got weak." "Virtue went from Me," says the King James, which "virtue" is "strength." "I got weak; something went out of Me."


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