<TITLE>13. Par 133-143</TITLE>L-133 And, upon that, she dropped the waterpot, went into the city and said, "Come, see a Man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very characteristic of the anointed Messiah which is the Word, that knows the thoughts that's in the heart? Isn't this the Messiah?" Oh, my!

L-134   Look, the woman with the blood issue, He was identified to her, by His characteristic, that He was the Messiah. The woman with the blood issue identified Him, the Word.

L-135 Hebrews 4:12, the Bible said that, "The Word of God is powerful than a two-edged sword, and a Discerner of the thoughts that's in the heart," (how many knows that?) "in the mind." That's what the Word is. You believe He was the Word? Do you believe He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? That settles it, if you believe That.

L-136 Notice, this little woman said, "If I can just touch Him! I don't care how much they say about Him. I believe that He's just what He said He was. If I can touch Him, I'll be made well." So she slipped through and touched Him. Went back in the audience.
Jesus stopped, and said, "Who touched Me?"

L-137 And Peter tried to make Him out like He was a neurotic, he said, "Why, everybody! Don't say things like that, why, they won't know what to think about You. A Man of Your status, and then say, 'Who touched Me?' Everybody is touching You."

L-138 He said, "But I perceive I've gotten weak, virtue is gone from Me." Knowed something had happened!

L-139 Now look, look what comes, the next great shock. He looked around till He found her, and He told her her condition, and her faith had saved her. She was... He was identified as the Word of God, knowing the secrets of the heart. Oh, my! The Word discerns the body, discerns the heart.

L-140   Now just a moment, in closing. Now, as Hebrews 13:8 is true, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever," do you believe That? Now I'm omitting a lot here I should say. Then, His character will identify Him now in this present time, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, just like He was then. Is that right? He's promised it. And, remember, His characteristic is His identification. How many understands it, raise your hand. His characteristic is His identification.

L-141 Like those who came from Emmaus, as I say this. Jesus had been crucified. All of them was sad. They was in the grave, now they said, "Somebody come and stole Him." One day He walked out of some bushes and walked along with them, as He went over to Emmaus. And they say...
He said, "Why you--why you so sad?"
He said, "Well, You're just stranger here."

L-142 And then when He got them inside, He did something just like He did it before His crucifixion. It was His characteristic of doing it that way. And they quickly recognized, by His characteristic, that that was the same Jesus that had been crucified. Amen.

L-143   God has raised Him up from the dead, and today His characteristic, as it, same as it was then! And the returning of the days of Sodom, as Jesus prophesied, the same thing is to take place "when the Son is being revealed to the people." It's identification of His characteristic. Hebrews 4:14 and 15, "He is now our High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, just like He was then." Do you believe that? Our infirmities touch Him. Well, if it would touch Him, how would He act if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? His characteristic would be the same. Then He'd act like He did when the woman touched His garment. Do you believe that? He ever lives, He is ever lives, and His characteristics still identify Him today as He was then. Do you believe it with all your heart? God, identified by His characteristic, identifies Him.
Let us bow our heads.


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