<TITLE>08. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 All nature today gives witness to Him. Watch the sun set in the evening, giving witness to His death. Watch it rise in the morning, giving witness to His resurrection. Watch the flower die in the wintertime, giving witness to His death. Watch it rise in the spring, giving witness to His resurrection. Watch all nature. The nature and the Bible harmonize perfectly together as a witness.
When He was hanging on Calvary, how the Jews ought to have known. When the Romans started to break His legs and broke it not, It was the Word giving witness that there wasn't a bone in His body was broke. When they looked upon Him, and seen the parting of the flesh in His hands, and in His feet, and a pierce in His side, it was the Word giving witness. That's the Son of God. That's the sin Offering. That's the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world.

L-26 When He was dying, He gave witness that He was dying. He died so, until the sun gave witness that He was dying that He was dead. It failed to shine. Its smaller brother, the moon, gave witness. If you study the Bible and realize at that time of year, the moon and the sun are both shining at the same time. And the moon would not shine, because it gave witness that He was dead.
Still the lesser brother, the stars gave witness that He was dead. The sun had hid its face and blushed from the sin of man on the earth, that God had created, who had mistreated their Creator in such a way. It blushed itself to darkness and hid its face. Its brother, sun and moon, stars would not shine, because it witnessed He was dead. And the earth itself gave witness that He was dead; it had a nervous prostration, until a shiver run over its back, until the cartridges out the great mountain shook loose. A chill run over it.
But the very Creator Who made it had died for the sins of it on Calvary's cross, and what would happen if the very Creator had died. He was dead. Pilate signed His death warrant. Take Him off. He is dead. The Roman soldier who pierced His side gave witness He's dead. The soldier set a seal by the order of Pilate, "He's dead," and put a guard, that no one could come and pack Him away. They all witnessed, "He's dead."

L-27 He was a Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. He was the Lamb that taken away the sin of the world. He was the One Who died to save all nations, colors, creeds. He was dead. He died like a man never died. He died the death of all men. He died that we might live. He was wounded that we might be healed. Our iniquity was upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed.
He died, but on that final Easter morning, when the Word must bear record again... On Easter morning when the last star had gone out, the Angels of God come down the corridors of heaven and rolled back the stone; And He raised from the dead. He rose up for He said, "Destroy this Temple, and I'll raise It again on the third day. And the sign of Jonah will begin unto this generation. As he laid in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so must the Son of man lay three days and nights." He gave witness to His resurrection.


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