<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 I know, that they'll--they'll go start giving prayer cards about six o'clock and we'll have to get away early enough, won't take but a little while to speak to you, while you pray.
How many Christians are here this afternoon? Let's see, well, that's wonderful. Oh, about, almost one hundred percent. Now, our text, our reading this afternoon, is concerning the beginning early ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. He had just become popular. If you notice Him, in His first year He was very popular, then there become a sag in the second year, and then they crucified Him.
First it was all new, it had tinsel on it, everywhere. Everybody come to see this wonderful Man Who could know the thoughts of people and do things that the Father showed Him to do: make the blind to see, the deaf to hear. They never heard such. But then the religious leaders of the day declared Him to be a devil. I think I stand too close to that microphone. And they declared Him to be a devil. And of course, as people are taught about, so will they do. Is that all right, or better? That's... All right, I just thinking I was... don't want to make you deaf, so...

L-15 So they found out then that their religious leaders did not believe Him. So then He become very unpopular. Just among the poor class of people, the common... The Bible said the common people heard Him gladly. But the kind that had big social standings and plenty things of this world and much money, they didn't pay any attention to Him. Well, Doctor So-and-so said He was a fanatic, He was a demon. And so there was nothing to Him, so they just kept away from Him. They went to their own groups. Well, birds of a feather, that's true.
But those who believed Him and loved Him, was with Him. And one of those families was a--a boy by the name of Lazarus, and one--or two sisters: One was named Mary and the other Martha. Now, we're told by historians that Lazarus was a scribe, that he wrote and reprinted the copies of the law. And if anyone knows how strict that was, one crook in the--in the word would mean something different. So it had to be perfectly, and had to be an--an honest, renown, holy, person, that would write that. So he was a--had to be a good character, and a good religious standing.

L-16 And Martha and Mary, we told, had done needlework, made tapestries for the temple and so forth. Them being on earth alone, their parents was gone. And at this time Jesus' foster father, I suppose, was gone, Joseph. And Jesus had come to dwell with them. And He become so famous till His work had just about scattered to a place where He had to go away.
Now, He was living... It had come to season. Everything comes right in its season. Do you believe that? Everything... You plant the wheat in the fall of the year; in the spring of the year it brings itself forth, or God brings it forth. And you--you plant the corn in the spring and in the fall you harvest it. Everything has its--its time, just like His Life, it had its beginning, it had its best part, and it has its shadow as He close.


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