<TITLE>13. Par 132-139</TITLE>L-132 Now, on the day they buried him, the bones up there, hundreds of years passed. And finally, one day, "Unto us a Son was born, unto us a Child was given: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the everlasting Father." And He come to the earth, and He come by the way of a manger, poor and degraded.
But something in Him, that knew... He stood there with one prophecy out of the Bible. He said, "You destroy this body, and in three days I'll raise it up again." He was the only man that could say that, ever was able to make the statement, or ever will be able to make it. "I have power to lay My body down. I have power to take it up again." That's right, Emmanuel Himself.

L-136 And then when He died, and on the day of His death they took Him down there off the cross, and they put Him in the grave. And He laid there from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning; on that wonderful Easter morning when He arose again and His soul was loosened from the prisons of hell down yonder, where He went as a sinner for you and I, bearing away our sins, to give us a perfect assurance... No reason to doubt any more, give it a perfect assurance... He said, "I..."
Because He did that, His soul was cast into hell, because He was a castaway. He was the scapegoat of the Old Testament, who... They put the sins of the people upon the scapegoat and turned him out into a wilderness to die. Jesus was that scapegoat who had the sins of the people upon Him, and was cast away and went into hell to suffer the tortures. His body went into the grave to pay the price of our resurrection. Oh, my.
Then on that Easter morning, when He come back up from the grave, where pains of death and hell could not hold Him... And when He rose again on Easter morning, not only did He rise, but so come Job, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac. All the rest of them come in the resurrection in Matthew 27, "And appeared to many, and around in the streets." That of the seal of their testimony, because they had something in them, that said, "I know my Redeemer liveth." And to every man... Now, they knowed...

L-139 God knowed, that in the days to come, that theologians would get a hold of this Bible. They knowed that smart men would get a hold of It, that they'd put their own interpretation to It, that they'd say, "Oh, it don't mean this. It doesn't mean that." So to make it assure that His great plans in the ages to come will be fulfilled... Listen close now as we close the service. As in the ages to come, that His plan will be fulfilled, God gave a definite witness to it.
We can read it and say, "I believe it." That's mental. That's intellectual faith. That's mental theology. But there's something beyond that. That's right.
Not only did He raise up from the grave, but He ascended on high and sent back the Holy Spirit. He went on high, and give gifts unto men, led captive captive, and give gifts unto men.


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