<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 Now, if we can find out what the works of God was to manifest Jesus Christ in yesterday, then we ought to see what His manifestation is. Today should be as it was then. Now, the first thing to conserve and save my time, Jesus never claimed to be a Divine healer. We're all aware of that. Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing," Saint John 5:19. When He had passed through the pool of Bethesda, or by it, there was a great multitude of people: lame, blind, halt, twisted, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And here passes Jesus among those people, passing the lame, halt, blind, and withered, goes over to a man laying on a little pallet.
Do some of you people here know what a pallet is? Well, that's some... I was raised on one. It's just a quilt by the door where it's cool. I'm a southerner. And so, that's what a... I'd call it a pallet. They had him laying there.

L-17 And notice, Jesus passing all that multitude, full of compassion went to this one man, and said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water." Now, he was not crippled, blind, withered. He had a retarded disease. He'd had it thirty-eight years. It wasn't going to kill him. So he said, "I have no one to put me in the water. But while I'm coming down, someone steps in ahead of me."
And Jesus knowing. He's hunting for him. The Father had showed Him where he was, what he looked like. "For verily, verily, I say unto you the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." And He seen this man, and knowed he met the description. And He said, "Take up thy bed and go into thy house," and moved away from the multitude. He was questioned.
How would He be questioned today if He did that in Los Angeles? What would take place if--if He did such a thing as that today? But that was Jesus yesterday. It would have to be Jesus today if He is the same today.

L-18 But let's notice what He did to make His Messiahic sign. Now, healing the sick wasn't exactly the sign of the Messiah. Anyone knows that. Healing the sick is not the sign of the Messiah, for the prophets healed the sick years before the Messiah come.
And in this last days, healing the sick in this great revival of Divine healing is not one of the outstanding signs of the coming of Jesus, for we've had Divine healing through the two thousand years since the going away of the Messiah at Pentecost, or Jerusalem, and the returning of Him again.
But there was a sign that was the sign of the Messiah, and the closing of the age.

L-19 And now remember, He came to His own, not the Gentiles. He came to His own, because they were looking for a Messiah. He will only come to those who are looking for Him. He will only save those who are wanting to be saved. He will only heal those who are believing that they're going to be healed. He never pushes Himself. You have to do that. You're on the basis of free moral agency. You was placed on that in the garden of Eden to make your choice. But He came to His own.
Now, according to the way we see the Scriptures, all human beings came from one tree, Adam. After the antediluvian destruction, there came forth the flood and--and destroyed all the human beings except the three sons of Noah and their families. From that sprang every nation in the world today: Ham, Shem, and Japheth, and that's Jew, Gentile, and half Jew and Gentile, the Samaritan in his day.


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