<TITLE>18. Par 54-56</TITLE>L-54 Well, now if the line--if the vine has a certain life in it, won't that same life be in the branch? Is that right? It's got to be. Wish we had time to preach that unconditional covenant to you for a few days, and show you just how God gets into that branch, and what kind of fruit it is.
Notice, but when He was here on earth, He was the Vine. And when He's gone away, He's still the Vine and made up the branches. Now, He doesn't have any eyes on earth but yours and mine, no hands but mine and yours. We are His mouthpiece, earpiece, and eyes, and so forth of the earth. Is that right? Because His literal physical body sets at the right hand of God the Father on the throne of God in heaven, as a--a Meditator, or an Offering, a Sacrifice. And there's no other meditator between God and man, but that Man, Christ Jesus. You get that? No other meditator, no saint, nor nothing else, no man, no, nobody but Jesus Christ Himself. He's the Meditator between God and men. The Bible said that.

L-55 Now, watch. What kind of works did He do here on earth? Let's follow Him, see what He did then. One of His first miracles performed, after laying hands on some sick; one of His disciples (Now, this is for the newcomers.), went over and--by the name of Philip went over and found Nathanael praying under a tree, several miles from him, brought the man back. And the man said, when Philip saw him; he said, "Come see Who we found. Jesus of Nazareth."
And this man from the orthodox church, raised up, and said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, see." That's the best answer I know to give anybody. "Come and see. Find out for yourself." If you don't believe Jesus has raised from the dead, come, find out. I've challenged that before hundreds of thousands of heathens, witch doctors, devil worshippers...?... leaders, never has He failed, and He never will. He can't. He's God.

L-56 Then, said, "Come, see." So he... They went along the road talking. He said, "I'll tell," as he went along, "you know the Messiah was supposed to do signs and wonders."
"Yes, this is Him."
"What? Wait till I get there and see." So he walked right up in the crowd, standing like you are there. Jesus praying for the sick, Jesus looked around and said, "Behold, there's an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Well, how did He know he was a believer? What astonished him...
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
"Oh," He said, "when Philip, before Philip called you, when you were under the tree praying, I saw you." And the Jews was standing there, the priests, and the orthodox from the big church, real scholars and educated men out of the seminary. They said, "That's the devil. That's Beelzebub. He's the chief of all the fortunetellers. And that's what's doing that."
Jesus said, "You can speak that against Me; it'll be forgiven. But when the Holy Ghost comes and does the same work, you speak one word against That, it'll never be forgiven in this world, or the world to come."


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