<TITLE>04. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13 And as the great Saint Paul said in his days, being the only educated one among the disciples, he said, "I didn't come to you with the excellency of word or with the speech of man that your faith would be trusting in such things," but said, "I come to you with the power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost that your--that your faith would rest in God," something to that order.
How we love that, and to know that the same thing that Paul preached in the days after the resurrection of Christ, is just the same today and can be proven right here now, infallible proofs that Jesus is alive today.

L-14 What a marvelous day it must've been for Cleopas and his friend. It was a beautiful Easter morning, the first Easter morning. Brokenhearted as they went along the road... The Bible said they were ignorant and unlearned men, His apostles was. They may not have knowed much about botany. They might not have much about mathematics, or--or algebra, or anything of that sort of our modern education. They might not have knowed much about that, but they knowed Him, and that's the main thing.
To know Him is Life. Remember that, Christian friend and sinner friend. To know Christ is Life. Many people go and they learn a catechism. They think that's life. Many people got and learn the Bible. They think that's life. Many people know the doctrine of their church. They think that's life. All those things are good, but to know Him, personally, as your personal individual Saviour; that is Life and that alone, to know Him.

L-15 It's good to know your catechism. It's good to know your books. It's good to know your doctrine of your church, but all of that is a sideline, but to know Him is to know Life, and to--to have Life is to know Him.
"For he that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me hath Everlasting Life and shall never come into condemnation, but has passed from death unto Life."
Jesus made those statements and those are Words that after there's no more moon and stars, those still... Them Words will still be in effect and just as powerful as they was the day that He spoke them. His Words cannot fail.

L-16 Now, if you will listen closely... On this Easter morning as they went along, they were brokenhearted. The Man that they had trusted in, the One that they'd thought was going to be the Saviour of Israel, the One that they had trusted to be the coming King had been miserably mistreated, dead, crucified, buried, and a seal put upon His grave with a daresn't of the Roman garrison to ever touch it or the penalty of all Rome resting in it. And if any man would break that seal, they'd be put to death immediately.
Mary, His beloved mother, though she stood and seen Him stripped down naked before the people, beaten to a pulp, bones in His hands parted by the cruel Roman nails, and all these things and disgraced and heard Him screaming for mercy as He died, thinking surely that no Man of that caliber could ever die such a death...

L-17 But God works all things together for the good. He had to bring Him that. As I said this morning, how would you have confidence in your loved ones ever raising from the dead if--if we only had Enoch who was translated, Elijah who went home to heaven in a chariot. If we only had them, we'd be miserable, but this Man died. He died until the sun knowed He was dead. He died until the moon and stars knowed He was dead. He died until everything in earth and heaven knew He was dead, that He might die the death of every mortal that ever lived. Because He died, is because we live. He died. He was mistreated. He came into the world by the way of a barn, no place to lay His head when He come on earth.


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