<TITLE>14. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 When Jesus passed through the pool of Bethesda and healed one man, left the multitudes, thousands laying there: Lame, blind, halt, withered. He went to man that maybe had a prostate trouble; maybe he had TB. It was retarded; he'd had it thirty-eight years. Why didn't He heal those that was crippled and blind? Passed right among every one of them and went over to this fellow.
Now, remember the Bible said Jesus knew that he had been in this condition. See? And He said, "Will thou be made well?"
Said, "I have no one to put me in the water."
He said, "Take up your bed."
Said, "Somebody can beat me." He could walk. Said somebody outruns him, gets down there first, get in the water when the angel troubled the water.
Said, "Take up your bed and go into your house."

L-57 And He was questioned. If He did that in this city tonight, He'd be questioned. Watch the devil say, "We got a man selling pencils down here on the streets, blind. Let these Divine healers heal him." See? See, that devil? The same one said, "If Thou be the Son of God, perform a miracle before me. Turn this bread in--this rocks into bread. I'll believe you."
The same devil, when they had Him in the courts, put a rag around His head, and a bunch of drunken soldiers hit Him on the head with a stick, said, "If you're a prophet, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you." See? God don't clown.

L-58 Jesus said, "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." There you are. There's the real servant of God. "I can do nothing in Myself but what I see," (not hear, see). Then Jesus never done one thing until God showed Him by a vision what to do, or He told something wrong in Saint John 5:19.
"Verily, verily (that's absolutely, absolutely), I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself." That was the Son, the--the body that God dwelt in. "The Son can do nothing in Himself; but I what I see, see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." In other words, "Father shows Me what to do, and I just act it out as a drama."

L-59 Now, blind Bartimaeus said there, said, "Who is passing by?"
"Oh," they said, "Shut up," shoved him over. And there, finally a kind little woman, a servant of Christ... All servants of Christ are kind. You believe that? They like to show courtesy to those who are needy: helps the blind across the street, bring them to the meeting. Do things kind. When the neighbor's sick, go help them, never expect money. Do good to others. All Christ's servants are like that. They like to help those who are run down and tramped over.
This poor old blind man, pushed over there, and all of them hollering... One saying, "Hail, hail, there the King, the Prophet, the Galilean Prophet. Hail to Him."
The others saying, "Away with that impostor."
Others saying, "Come raise the dead, you hypocrite. Plenty of them laying up here on the hill. Come up here and raise one of our men. We had a godly priest to die last week. Come, raise him if you're the Son of God."


<A HREF="P15">Next Page</A>