<TITLE>24. Par 240-251</TITLE>L-240 Then He went down to the--and died as a sinner, nailed to a cross. Every physical thing showed that He was dead. They beat Him. They hung Him up there. Why, He bled enough to kill Him. And then they come around; He was dead. The heavens declared He was dead. The earth said He was dead. Everything said He's dead. The Roman soldier rammed a spear through His heart, and there flowed His Blood out, Blood and water, which had separated, showed of grief. And that said He was dead. The water...
Look, if the Man was hanging there, and Blood and water poured out, showed that the Blood and water had separated. Hallelujah. He was dead. And He never died from the sword. He never died from the pierce. He died because of grief.

L-242 There's nothing in the world separate blood from water. Ask any science you want to, or any doctor. He'll tell you, only through hard grief, sometimes, that people suffer so hard that they can... You know, in grief, like heartaches and things like that, it sometimes causes a heart attack and kills them, when the blood and water separates. And that's what killed the Lord Jesus. He died under the hands of Jehovah (That's right.), a full penalty, justice, for God required justice. That's right. And then no man could take His life. He said, "I'll lay it down. No man can take it. I'll lay it down, and I'll raise it up again."

L-245 And God, showing that through the hardest, most cruelest death that mortal could ever die, God run the Forerunner, Jesus Christ. And He come down here as a man. He lived. He eat. He drank. He cried. He slept. He rejoiced with us like men. And He laid out there on the cross and died, and was embalmed. With a sword, pulled the Blood from His body... And was wrapped in the cloth, and put in the grave, and was in the grave for three days and nights. And His soul went to hell. The Bible said so. Yes, sir.
But then He rose again. God would not, wouldn't let His Holy One see corruption, neither His soul stay in hell. And He rose Him up on the third day for our justification, ascended Him up on high for our justification.
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified...
Everything as a forerunner... And as God raised Him up, He's obligated to every one that's got part of that Life in them, will raise them up at the last day. The Forerunner took Him up into heaven with Himself, set Him on His right hand in power and majesty, far above every moons, the stars, the Angels, the Archangels.
The highest Thing that ever was, become the lowest thing there ever was, that He might take that in between, and bring to Himself, reconcile the world to Himself. When God... Can you think of it? Holy and high, highest Thing, created man a little lesser than Him...

L-251 Man dropped plumb down to here. The blood of sheep and goats held him this far, as potentially, until the fullness of time came. Then God came down Himself, not an Angel, not a Cherubim, but God came from heaven and went all the way to hell to bring man up from hell to heaven with Him. He come hunting the lost sheep. He found him, and put him on His shoulder, and climbing the ladder today with him, going towards glory. "If I be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw all men unto Me."
Who was He? We'll get that next Sunday, the Lord willing. A priest made after the order of Melchisedec. Who was this Jesus? Melchisedec, Who had no beginning of days nor ending of years. He had no father, no mother. You said, "Mary was His mother." Oh, brother. He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Before Mary was ever, He was. Amen.
Oh, I want to see Him,
Want to look upon His face,
There to sing forever of His saving grace;
On the streets of glory let me lift my voice;
Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice.


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