<TITLE>16. Par 50-51</TITLE>L-50 Anyone knows that the Palestinian garment hung loose around the person. And it was a robe. That's the reason they had feet washing. When that robe, as they walked, it picked up the dust that where the animals had been on the road, and--and dust got on them, and it was stinky. They had to wash before they could be an honored guest at a home. And then they had an underneath garment that come down below the knee.
And now, anyone knows that that little touch of a border, the hem of that garment, probably standing anywhere from two to six or eight inches away from Him; Jesus never physically felt it.
And she touched Him and went back out, let's say, in the audience, and sit down. Jesus stopped. He said, "Who touched Me?"
And you know, it was such a surprise till Simon Peter even rebuked Him. He said, "Why, Lord, why would You say such a thing? Why, all, the whole crowd's a touching You. And why could You say, 'Who touched Me?'" Said, "All of them's touched You."
Here's Jesus' answer. "But I perceive that I have gotten weak." The King James says "Virtue has gone from Me." And anybody knows that "virtue" is "strength." "Strength is gone out of Me; it made Me weak."
See, she touched Him with a different kind of a touch. So He didn't know who it was. But she touched Him. Now listen. Then He turned Himself around and looked over that audience, perhaps about like's here tonight. He looked around till He found the little woman. And He told her that her faith had healed her blood issue. Is that right? What was it? He had some kind of inoculation in Him of God, a Balm, of God, B-a-l-m, of God inside of Him, which was the Holy Ghost, that that woman with her faith in God, knowing that was His Son, touched Him; and it attracted attention to the woman. Is that right? And He said, "Thy faith, your blood issue's gone now, because your faith has..." The Greek word is "Sozo," means "saved," physically or spiritually, both the same time in all the Scriptures, "Sozo." All right. "Your faith has saved you."

L-51 Now, is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? If you believe it, say "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. Preachers, ministers, Sunday school teachers, laity, does the New Testament teach, the Book of Hebrews, that He is a High Priest right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Is that right? Well, if He's the same High Priest, and you touched Him in the same way, wouldn't He act the same as He did then? If He's the same High Priest, same Life. Now, where is He tonight? At the right-hand of God Almighty, making intercessions as a High Priest.
Now, if you touched Him, and this Life that was in Him, the Balm that was in Gilead, in Christ, which He was the Church in full... And now, we are His Bride, taken from Him to minister in His place. If you touched Him, He could speak through me or someone, and speak out the same as He did then, and say the same thing to you He did to the woman, if He's the same High Priest. Is that right?


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