<TITLE>06. Par 53-65</TITLE>L-53 And He give old Abraham a preview of it, and He passed through these pieces of animals that he'd cut up. Where we just taken a few weeks ago, or last week, rather, or week before last, in our services, of how that He made this little white Light, which was God, pass through these, confirming the oath of the covenant...
And then turned and blessed Abraham, and an old man a hundred years old, and a woman at ninety, turned back to a young man and a young woman again, and brought forth a--a son, Isaac. Which, in him, come out the Seed of Abraham. Out of Abra... Out of that, out of Isaac, come David; out of David come Christ; out of Christ come the resurrection from the dead. What a glorious promise. How God down through the age foreshadowed all these things.

L-55 Then finally, and as we have took in the last few days, for a background, of how that all the people, all the prophets of the Old Testament specified their place of burial.
Today you'll go to the graveyard, many of you, put flowers on your loved ones or on their graves.
Now, watch this. All of the prophets of old, not having any Scripture to go by as we have, any Divine promise of God, only through the leadership of the Holy Spirit... "Men of old, as they was moved by the Holy Spirit, wrote the Word of God." Each one of them, when they died, they specified they wanted to be buried in Palestine. They did not want to be... They died out of Palestine, many of them, but wanted to be buried in Palestine, because God gave the firstfruits of the resurrection out of Palestine.

L-58 Then when along came Jesus, they done to Him what they said they would. When He was born in Bethlehem, He came in by the way of a stable door, went out through capital punishment. While He was here on earth, He never made a fifty-mile journey in His life. He never went anywhere around Palestine, yet the Message of His Gospel has traveled to every crack and corner of the world.
He never wrote a book in His life, yet the Book was written of Him, has outsold every book in all ages: the Bible. And yet, in there He never had a... Never went to a college in His life, and yet there's been more colleges erected in His honor than--than any other thing has been upon the face of the earth, or any other name, or any other man. And He never went very far. He lived a humble, low life. He was made fun of, scoffed, laughed at.

L-60 And He said that He had power to lay His life down, and power to raise it up. Any man can make boasts like that: anyone can. But He proved His contention when He rose on Easter morning.
When they pierced His hands, and His--and His feet, and in His side; and thorn crown on His head... And He died, yonder, screaming for mercy at Calvary. When He was on earth, He looked like a man and He acted like a man. And when He died there at Calvary, He screamed for mercy like a man.
But when He rose up on Easter morning, He proved He was more than a man. He was God. He had power to lay His life down.

L-63 Now, the first thing on the morning, the little group of disciples were all heartbroken. They didn't know what had taken place. Some of them wanted to return back to their fishing nets.

L-64 Now, as a little preview of what death was, and how horrible death was, and to the founders down through our Christian religion, how the promises was given down through these patriarchs that I've mentioned this morning... Now, let's come right down to home, where it's at.

L-65 These little disciples, after they... little band that was hated in the beginning... They had not many friends of this earth.
And any man that serves Jesus Christ will not have many friends of this earth. You have to stand on your convictions alone. Many times you have to stand by yourself, but He promised He would stand with you. "I'll go with you even to the end."


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