<TITLE>17. Par 67-70</TITLE>L-67 There was a woman one time in the meeting. She didn't have a prayer card; we'd say. She had a blood issue, and she couldn't get to Jesus; there was too many around Him. Everybody was pressing, hugging Him and... As we'd say, like this: "Good morning, Reverend, or Rabbi. Oh, we're so glad to have You in our land today. How are You? Give me a little hug. Let me--let me pat You on the arm." Everybody...
And the little woman seen she couldn't get close to Him, so she crawled around till she touched the border of His garment. That right? Now, the Palestinian garment hung loose. Now, I wouldn't know if you touched my coat, or His coat. And a Palestinian garment had an underneath garment and a loose garment, a robe, over top of that, and she just touched the border of it, for she said within herself, "If I can touch the border of His garment, I'll be made whole." Is that right? "I'll be made whole."
Now, she had no Scripture for it, but she believed it. So she touched His garment. And she slipped off out in the crowd, about like this, perhaps, and sit down, or stood up, or whatever she was.
Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
And all of them said, "Not me."
And Peter said... He rebuked Him. In other words, he'd say something like this. "Lord, what are You talking about. Who touched You, when they're climbing over one another to touch You."
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak. Virtue's gone from Me."

L-68 Somebody touched Him with a different kind of a touch. Now, that's the kind of a touch we want to talk on for just a minute. Not the way you shake your hand, put your name on the book, but a touch that He can feel.
Now, that little woman had a need. And He looked around over the audience... How many knows that He had the Spirit of discernment? Sure, without measure. But He didn't know. Now, if He'd have knowed, He'd have told the truth. He's God and couldn't do nothing else but tell the truth. But He didn't know who did it. But God was in Him. And He looked around over the crowd till He found the little woman. He told her that her faith had healed her blood issue. And she felt, and within herself, that the blood issue had stopped. Is that right?

L-69 Now, the Bible said Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe that? Does the New Testament say that He's the High Priest right now? that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? That true? He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. All right.
Then if He is the High Priest, the same High Priest, and if you touched Him, how would He act if He's the same High Priest? The way He acted the first time. God can't act anyway but what He does the first time, because He's infinite. He's infinite; we're finite. We make all kinds of mistakes, but God, not Him. He's... Everything that He does once it's perfect forever. He's God. He can't make a mistake and be God.

L-70 So the woman touched Him, and He turned and told her. Now, if He's the same God tonight that He was then, the same High Priest that can now, this hour, be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, He'd act the same way. Now, He's gone into glory.
He's the Vine, we are the branches. The vine doesn't bear fruit, the branch bares fruit. Is that right? You don't get fruit off the vine, you get it off the branch. Well, if we're the branches and He's the Vine, then He furnishes the energy, which is the Holy Spirit. And if the Holy Spirit's from Him, It'll act like Him.


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