Now, to some of the newcomers, first time here, I’ll just quote this again. Jesus did not claim to be a Divine healer. And any man on this earth cannot claim, and be rightly, claim to be a Divine healer, because there’s no Divine healers. Only God alone is the Healer. Jesus said, “The Son can do nothing. It’s the Father that dwells in Him; He doeth the works.” Is that right? It’s Him that doeth the works. Jesus said, now if… Jesus passed by cripples, blinds, twisted, lame, halt, all kinds of people and never healed them. The Bible said He did it, went through by the pool of Bethesda where great multitudes, many, many, many times more than here tonight, of crippled, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of that water and never healed a one of them, went to a man laying on a pallet, and healed him, and went on. Why did He have such most—compassion and pass all those crippled people? Because He said, “I can do nothing except the Father shows Me.” Saint John 5:19. “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.” If you’ll read carefully through the Scripture, it’s always been down through all ages, miracles are not performed by the will of man; it’s by the will of God. God shows visions, sets people and tells them…Gideon, and all down through, like Elijah… A man come and said, “Well, we need so—”

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