<TITLE>23. Par 240-254</TITLE>L-240 Say, I was just thinking. By the way, how many in here really believe it on the first night, raise your hands, believe what I've told you is the Truth? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-241   Let's pray. We won't wait for any prayer cards. The Holy Spirit is just as great now as He was if you had prayer card. Prayer card don't do nothing but give you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-242 Bow your heads. I want to ask you something. One time, Jesus of Nazareth... If you ever catch me doing anything unscripturally, that this Bible doesn't say, you are duty bound to come to me, see, to tell me. Jesus Christ said...

L-243 When He was here on earth, He was going up across the sea, and He stopped. And on His road, there was a man come to Him, by the name of Jairus, and he was... his little girl was very sick, and she was dying. Frankly, she died before He got there.

L-244 And there was a woman, perhaps lived up on the hill, that had heard about Him, and her faith really believed that it was, He was the Messiah.

L-245   So there was many of the scribes and Pharisees standing by, saying, "Don't you listen to that Man. That Man will get you all tore up, you confused. You'll be leaving the synagogue. He--He won't... You, you won't know what to believe. Don't you listen to that Man."

L-246 But that didn't stop this little woman. The Bible said she had had a blood issue for many years. And she had spent all of her living and give it to the doctors. And the doctors no doubt had tried hard to help the little woman, but they couldn't do it. She still had a discharge of blood, and she was pale, perhaps sickly-looking. And all of a sudden, she heard. "What's the noise down there on the bank?"
They said, "That Prophet from Galilee is coming by."
"That Jesus?"

L-247 See, Jesus is just a common Jewish name. I'm acquainted with many people named Jesus. Right where I live there in Arizona, I know three or four men right there, even ministers, named Jesus.

L-248   But this is Jesus the Christ, the anointed One, see, the Son of God; and this Prophet, Jesus, was coming by. She knowed that, that He was a prophet. And she knowed that God was the Word, and He come to His prophets, so she said, "If I can only touch that Man's garment, I'll be made well."

L-249 Are you acquainted with the story? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. Remember, she pressed through the crowd.

L-250 Now, anyone knows the Palestinian garment, it has an underneath garment and a robe, and it swings free as they walk. All men, women, and all, wore them. And they down low, and they have like a stocking over their--their legs, and things, to keep the dust and stuff from settling on their limbs. And as they walk, course, the garment picks up the dust.

L-251   And so as they passed by, she perhaps had to crawl around them. And everyone was putting their arms around Him, "Rabbi! So-and-so! And some of them saying, "Well, He's... there is nothing to Him." That's the mixed crowds, we always have it everywhere. But this little woman come through and touched the border of His garment.

L-252 That was His outer garment. Now, you, I'd never feel it, or you wouldn't if I touched your coat, or you touched mine, and it laying against you. This loose Palestinian garment, hanging that far from His feet, of course, physically, He never felt it. And she touched His garment, went back, sit down, or whatever she did.

L-253 Jesus stopped, and said, "Who touched Me?" Is that true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. Now watch.

L-254 Now, that was Jesus yesterday. And nobody said nothing, and He looked around upon the audience till He found where that faith was, and He revealed it to her. He said, "Thy faith has saved thee. Your blood issue stopped." Is that right? "Thy faith." Now, that was Jesus yesterday. Now it's, now the Bible said...


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