<TITLE>04. Par 10-11</TITLE>L-10 My that was right straight from the shoulder, wasn't it? Said, "You by wicked hands have crucified the Prince of Life, but God's raised Him up again." Amen. I like that. Said, "You crucified Him, but it's not possible that He should be a holder of death. So death had to turn Him loose, and He has raised from the dead. And we are His witnesses. (Amen.) That's why these things are done, for instance, the impotent man at the gate healed." Said, "By faith in the Name of Jesus Christ this man's made whole." See? "The Prince of Life Who you crucify," Said, "God's vindicated Him."
He didn't have no... He wasn't a great princely looking man. He wasn't none of these things that the world looks at. "But God was with Him, because He proved that He was with Him before all of you, by signs and wonders which He did in the midst of you all."
That's what the apostles thought about the Christian faith. What did the great ecclesiastical realm, the Pharisees and Sadducees, the great Sanhedrin court, amounting to around two million people. They sent a representative over one night, Nicodemus. He came by night. Some of you laugh at him by coming by night. He finally arrived. Did you? Have you done as much as Nicodemus? He finally got there. He got to Jesus.
All right. And when he come, look at him now, a scholar, a scholar coming to a Man Who had no diploma. It was a aristocrat coming to a pauper for knowledge. Here was a man of great degrees coming to a Man that had no degrees. Here it was an old sage and teacher coming to a young Fellow to learn about Everlasting Life. You see the difference?

L-11 Now, he came along through the alleys at nighttime making his way up because of his church and so forth, but Nicodemus (Listen at him.), He voiced for the church, the Sanhedrin court, for the temple, for the Pharisees, and the Sadducees, and Sanhedrins and so forth. He said, "We know... Rabbi, or Master, we know that Thou art a Teacher come from God." "We," who's we? "We Jews, we of the--of the courts. We of the synagogues who's persecuted You, making fun of You, laughing at You, but we know that You're a Teacher comes from God." Why?
"Because that You're an eloquent man, and great speech, melodious voice?"
"No."
"How do you know then?"
"We know that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no man can do the things that You do, the miracles that You do, except God be with Him." They knew that that was Him, but for prejudice, selfishness, not ready to have self-denial to renounce your old surrounding and accept Him. Yet they recognized that it was of God.


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