<TITLE>27. Par 200-208</TITLE>L-200 Look at Martha that day. Oh, I know I'm keeping you a long time, but I--I'll pay it up sometime for you and make a real short one. Listen, I just got a few more things to say just now, I'll go. Hope I'm not wearing your patience out.
Martha, she was very, had very much perseverance in the Presence of Jesus. Look, she come up there and she said, "Lord." Now, remember, she sent for Him to come pray for her brother, and He didn't do it.
Now, in John 5:18, Jesus said, John 5:19, I believe it is, Jesus said, when He passed through the Bethesda pool there, and He saw, He know a man had an infirmity for thirty-eight years. Look, about two thousand people standing there, waterhead babies, lame, blind, halt, withered, twisted up. Jesus passed through the pool, looked all around, full of love, full of compassion. See, we don't know what love means. We take it on a human side. Full of compassion, sure, you're talking human compassions. Real compassions is do the will of God. See? There it is.

L-202 "Oh, I wouldn't say nothing to him, 'cause he's a good boy. He--he--he drinks; he does this." He needs Christ. "I wouldn't say nothing to him, 'cause he's belonged to that church a long time. But... I wouldn't name Divine healing to him." Oh, brother, you don't know what compassions is.
Jesus passed through there; He knowed the will of God. Remember, He'd just--He'd just raised up a dead man. And remember what taken place here. He passed through that pool there, go by the side of this pool; there was mothers with little babies. They were trying to wait for the Angel of the Lord to trouble the waters. He walked on by then, went to a man had the infirmity, let's say a prostate trouble. He'd had it thirty-eight years. It was retarded; it wasn't going to kill him. He said, "Will thou be made whole?" What about this blind, lame, blind, halt, withered? Said, "Will thou be made whole?" See, He knowed just where to go. God, the Word led Him. Now, He said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool." He could walk. Said, "When I'm coming down, somebody else beats me in."
He said, "Take up your bed and go in your house." He was questioned. And they brought Jesus to the court to question Him.

L-206 If He done that same thing today, He'd be questioned. That's right. "He left two thousand, what about them? I know old Brother So-and-so down there. Sister So-and-so, she's a good woman, been laying there for twenty years. If there's any God about Him, He would've went down and done that." That same old devil says the same thing today. "If thou be... If this be... If that is..." same old devil (See?) same old thing.
So these Pharisees was questioning Him up there about these things. Watch Him, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." See, He has--had a vision. The vision showed Him. "What I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. See, the same God.

L-208 Now, Martha, in His Presence, she was standing there. She said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here."
Now, why didn't He come? Because the Father had showed Him a vision that Lazarus was going to die. Now, look, they--they sent; He went to another city. They sent again; He went to another city. Then finally He said, "Lazarus sleepeth." Oh, they... That's the terms that He had. There's no death to a Christian. We know that.
Oh, he said, "If he sleeps, he does well, taking a rest."
Said, "But he's dead," told them in their language. "But I go wake him." Oh.
Walks up to where she was, oh, I can see this. Come into the city, I can hear the Jews say, "Uh-huh, there's the Divine healer. Huh-uh. They left their church, everything else, to follow him. And when a real case come on, even his friend he slipped out of town. Sent, now he's come back." Jesus walked on.


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