<TITLE>17. Par 158-168</TITLE>L-158 I see things, even in visions and things the Lord has showed me, and turned right back around and do vice versa. You imagine? And God showing me... I had it in Lisbon. I said, "Lord, just take Your hand off of me; I'm not even worthy to be Your servant." To see something He told me, and I had forgot all about it, and went right up. It happened. I thought, "Oh, my. There, why didn't I remember that." See? Here I had it wrote down in my pocket here on a piece of paper, and walked right in and done something vice versa. See? There it shows how much of a... how much, how good I am (You see?), not... Oh, the worst of all of them, would be me. For after God telling you to do something, and you turn right around and do something vice versa, that's terrible. See?
So, you see?, no matter who the man is, he's nothing but a human being to me. He's going to make mistakes. So let's just suffer with one another, and do the best we can. That's the only thing we can. All right.

L-160 John, now, 1st verse. Everybody got your Bibles open?
In the beginning...
Oh, say, this is good, isn't it, to start with?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (Listen.)
The same was in the beginning with God.

L-161 Say, let's take on down here, the 14th verse. I've taught on this so many times, and thought of it. Look.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory... of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (Look!)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us,...

L-162 "In the beginning..." Now let's get some real... Here, I see something. And the Holy Spirit must have ordained this to be so. See? I see a great thing here. "In the beginning was the Word."
Now, you can't go any farther back, mentally speaking, than in the beginning. "In the beginning," before there was a world, before there was a star, 'fore there was a sun, moon, anything else, 'fore there was any creation, that's, "In the beginning." Is that right? Now, as far as we can go, is back to the beginning.
And "In the beginning, God was... In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us." Then, the Word was Jesus Christ. Is that right?  Oh, my. Then Who was... "In the beginning was Jesus Christ."

L-165 Then in our Catholic thoughts of the Eternal sonship, there could not be. For if He was the Son of God, He had to have a beginning of time. He had to be borned off of to be a Son (is that right?), if He was the Son of God.

L-166 Oh, we'll wind ourself out here in the good old Scripture. How I just love It. Just... You feel at home when you get into It, you know. Don't you love It?

L-167 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The Word Itself was God. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld Him in the glory of the Father." You see? We beheld the Word that was in the beginning, become flesh here on earth. Now, what a marvelous thing: to think that God, made flesh, to take away sin.

L-168 Now, if we could get the superstitions of the world, how they worship and want to become good... Now, certain of their denominations there, or their--the sects, they think, "If a man becomes real good, he becomes a god. And, he, he is a god then." And they worship him as God.
And then another reason they worship it... It can't hardly be taught in a--in a mixed audience like this. Because, the germ of life comes out of the male (you see?), and they think that "life lays in it, and Eternal Life, perpetual life, coming through the male, from one to another. We've always been here. We've always been." Same spirit, moving over and over, in people. You see? And therefore, they worship the man because out of him comes the germ of life.


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