<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0612, Behold, A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, Central Assembly Of God, Columbia, SC, 102 min
L-1 Thank you...?... Good evening, friends. It's a privilege to be back here tonight, and to be in the service of the Lord. And we certainly enjoyed last night (just commenting) the message, a little drama. Why, you never enjoyed it any more than I did, of trying to rehearse it to you, as I see it, the way the Lord did it, or they did it in the Bible. And tonight it's such a--a privilege to be back here tonight and see all of you back again. That's mighty nice.
I want to say, that many times in the meetings that the misunderstood ministry of this type... But it certainly seems to be well understood here. That shows that you've had good teaching. I appreciate that.
And now, always watch what He tells you. You see? If I haven't time tonight to explain it, of how... Just watch what it's saying, because it isn't me. I don't know. See? It's just a, as I would try to say, just a... It's a gift, like a gear you just pull yourself in. And you don't know it, but you're the one that's a doing it. You're the one; it isn't me.

L-2 And those who travel along, and in the meet along the roads, and so forth, and at home, the visions that come there are not like they are on the platform. The one on the platform, you're doing it yourself. See? You don't know it, but you are. It's your faith doing. And the--the ones at home is the ones that God's doing it. And this is what you're doing.
As I would just briefly brief it to you, when the woman touched the garment of the Lord Jesus, she turned--or He turned and said, "Who touched me?" And He looked around. And the apostle Peter kinda scolded Him for making such a remark, and He said He perceived that He got weak. Virtue went out, from one little woman. And He looked around in the audience till He found her, told her her blood issue had stopped. Her faith, her faith had did it (See?), her faith.

L-3 Well, now, what about when He raised up Lazarus? How much greater that was to call a man back after he'd been dead for four days. Wasn't a thing said about Him getting weak there. See? That was God doing it. Now, St. John 5:19, He said, "Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing first." See? See, it was a vision. Not, "what I hear the Father saying," but "what I see the Father doing." See?
Now, the Lord had told Him... We know the Scriptures are not confusing, and they're not contradictory. They are the truth. So then He did not do nothing until the Father showed Him first by a vision what to do. "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. The Father worketh, I worketh hitherto." In other words, it's just acting out a drama, what God told Him to do.

L-4 Now, God must've told Him, then, to leave Lazarus and go away because he was going to die. And after so many days they'd send, but not go, because that lovely family sending for Him, and He went on.
And finally, Lazarus, when he died at the hour and so forth, Jesus knew it. And He turned and said Lazarus was asleep. Of course, they didn't understand it. They thought he was taking a rest. Then He told them in their own language, "He's dead. And for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go, wake him." See?
Now, watch Him at the grave. "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast already heard Me. But I say this for those who stand around." See? Wasn't nothing said about Him getting weak. That was God using His gift, showing His Son what to do. But when the woman touched Him, that was a woman using God's gift for the faith that she had in it. See? That's the difference. See it's your faith, not mine, yours. You're the one who does it. It's your faith.


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