<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 Now, what He was in the days yesterday, living in a body, Jesus, He will do the same today in His Church, because that's His program to carry on with His Church.
Now, if I asked all the Methodists here tonight, "Do you believe that?"
All of them, "Yes." Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals and so forth, we'd all believe that. Now, the thing the... We know the Bible teaches It, but will it work? It'll work if we believe It'll work, because It's God's Word. See?
Now if we can get a idea of what He was yesterday, we can see clearly what He is then today. Now, we was reading just now out of the Book of Saint John. Now, hold on to these things with all that's in you. We won't have much time to express them in future meetings. But to save time, let's just go back a little bit and find out what He was yesterday. And whatever He was yesterday, He must remain the same today.

L-22 Now, we find Him... We'll go back to the first book, the first part of the book we just read, Saint John, and just begin to unfold His life and see what He was yesterday, and see the way they seen Him yesterday, and the way He manifested Himself yesterday, then He's got to do the same thing today.
Now, the first place... Let's settle it for all time. Jesus did not claim to be a healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; It's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." Saint 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."

L-23 He'd passed through the pool of Bethesda--or by it, where there was multitudes of i--im--of people that were crippled, lame, halt, and blind. And He found a man laying on a... Well, I'd call it in my country, a pallet.
I don't know whether you Californians... How many knows what a pallet is? What part of Kentucky you all from? I thought they was all of Okies and Arkies here. But look like got some Kentuckians here. I was raised on one, so I know what a pallet is.
Well, this man was laying on a pallet, little blanket or something laying there. And when He passed by, Jesus knowed that he'd been in this condition all this time, and healed him, and went on His way. What if He did that here in San Jose tonight. Tomorrow morning He'd have the same criticism He had then. Why didn't You heal this one, that one, and this one, and that one. See? Jesus said, "I only do as I see the Father doing. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."

L-24 Now, let's get back and find what He was. We know of His--His birth in the manger, and a little stable in the side and a cave on a hillside in Bethlehem. And we know of His--part of His boyhood to twelve years old, and then being showing forth, John the Baptist baptizing Him; and the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven; and then into the wilderness for forty days and nights to be tempted of the devil; and then came forth in His ministry.
Now, follow close. Saint John, the 1st chapter we're beginning with. And we want you to know that the things that you see and hear, may be just a little different from what you have been, maybe, thinking about. But sometimes God does things a little different than what we've got our programs worked out. See? God does that. He did that in His--the first coming of Jesus. He had it... The ministry had it... They had it all worked out some way that Christ was to be. But then He came so different, till they did not understand it. And it could be that way again. I don't say it will be, but say it could be.


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