<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Now, in Acts, the 2nd Chapter and beginning with the 22nd verse, I want you to listen closely to the reading of His Word. Peter speaking, the theme is Jesus Christ. The time is AD 33, at the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out.
Ye men of Israel, hearken unto these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles... wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:
Listen closely.
... Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God... (In other words, God a vindicated His Son.)... a man approved of God among you by wonders, signs, miracles... (What God did by Him, he said.)... and you yourselves are a witness.
And I say that the same Jesus that was rejected nineteen hundred years ago among His people, doing the same thing tonight in the form of the Holy Spirit, is just as rejected now as He was then, and more so: same thing.
Now, I want to read out of Saint John the 5th Chapter, and I want to begin at the 28th verse.
Marvel not at--at this: for the hour is coming,... which all that is in the graves shall hear his voice,
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto a resurrection of life;... they which have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is true--is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.
Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
... I receive not testimony from man: but these things that I say, that ye might be saved.
He was a burning and... shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
Now, listen close.
But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.
And the Father himself, which has sent me, hath borne witness of me.

L-5 Jesus speaking to the Jew, He said, "You don't have to judge Me," said, "because God has already judged you by what you think of Me," in other words. Said, "I come and testified of the truth, and God come down and confirmed that that was the truth." And the Father bears witness of His Son. And then His witness is the truth because the Scripture spoke of His Son. Jesus said, "Well did Isaiah speak of: you have ears and can't hear, eyes and can't see." 'Cause Isaiah 35 told just what He would do: the lame would leap like a hart, and so forth would take place. He said, "You can discern the signs of the times, by the sun setting and so forth, but the, or the weather, but the signs of the time you cannot discern, for if you'd known Me, you would've known My day."

L-6 Now, tonight, friends, this same Lord Jesus that I'm reading about, He is the Present One here on earth today, and fulfilling the word that He said. And God is testifying that it is the truth. No way at all for you to doubt, 'less you'd just want to. The hardest thing in the world is somebody being taught one thing, and then happen to see something that turns them all the way around.
That's what was the matter with the Jews rejected Jesus. They'd been taught one thing. The Rabbi said, "We can't change that," but yet Scripturally, Jesus was rightly and the Messiah. But they had it set up some other way. And today, isn't it just as true, that we have our own ideas set up, when God works in wondrous ways His wonders to perform? Works many ways... And we have it just the way we want it. But God will send it to us His provided way for us. Receive it and be rejoicing.


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