<TITLE>11. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 I want you to notice how beautiful that is, the lintel, the top of the door, and on the door post, not on the bottom. Blood of Christ isn't to look down at; it's to look up to...?... Perfectly in the door, the shape of the cross. Every father in that day was a priest of his own family. And it was up to each individual family to kill a lamb. The lamb was to be kept up fourteen days, tried: Perfect type of Christ, tried before all of His accusers. Yes, there wasn't a blemish on Him.
Let's take a little look and see if they could find any blemish on this Lamb of God. 'Course you know, all His friends would testify of Him. Let's look at His enemies. His arch enemy Judas Iscariot, when he looked at Him hanging there, he said, "I have betrayed innocent Blood," throwed the money down at the high priest's feet, went got a rope and hung himself.
Let's look at the Roman centurion when he felt the earth shaking and going on when Jesus died, he put his hand over his heart, said, "Truly that was the Son of God."

L-42 The Father Himself shut off the visions of heaven. It turned midnight dark in the middle of the day, according to what the prophet said would take place. God said, "That's My beloved Son." Certainly, He did.
Look at that Pilate, that great fellow setting out there on the judgment seat. Got him out early in the morning, he was all stewed up in his mind, all bitter anyhow, kinda hated this fellow. They brought him out there and set him on the judgment seat, early in the morning to make a judgment. And they brought Him up, and they wanted Him to do some miracles for him, or a please him some way.

L-43 And notice, just ready to condemn Jesus, I hear something coming down the road just as hard as he can come. What is it? It's a horse coming from up at the palace. A man jumped off the horse, runs up there. What is it? It's one of the palace guards. He takes a letter out of his pocket, falls down before Pilate, hands it to him. He picks it up, opens it up. He's standing there in his fury ready to condemn Jesus. He begins to read, his hands begins to shake, his knees begins to beat together. What is on that letter, what would cause that cruel emperor to change in a few minutes? What would take place to make a man like that...?... or their emperor, what would make him do that? Let's look over his shoulder just a minute and find out. It's coming from a pagan wife, "Have nothing to do with this just Man, for I suffered many things today in a dream because of Him."
He said, "Bring me some water, I'll wash my hands. I have nothing to do with it." Hallelujah. God was making a way for Him there, if He'd only accepted it. That's right. Yes, sir.

L-44 He's made a way for you tonight. Are you going to do the same thing Pilate did, wash Him off of your hands? You'll never do it. Some people justify, Pilate? No, sir. Pilate was not justified by washing his hands. You'll do it... Pilate was justified, you can be the same. You here see it every night here, you can wash your hands, say, "Well, I'll have nothing to do with it. I'll return back."
You can't get it off your hands. Right. You know the end of Pilate; he plunged hisself to death up there near Norway and Sweden. And every year yet, people go up there to watch that blue water come up the same that he washed his hands from Jesus. Might be a superstition, but they gather there to see it anyhow every year. No, sir, you can't wash it off.


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