<TITLE>11. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 That Lord Jesus Who did not put on public shows or make Himself a clown, He didn't clown for people. He only did that which was right, and the Father showed Him what to do. He said so in Saint John 5:19. "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." He could not lie, for He was God. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
But let's watch Him as He stands there. Gravitation loses its power. Now, watch His feet begin to come up from the earth. There's a light beneath His feet. He rises higher and higher, higher and higher. Gravitation lost its power, just as death lost its power. He was the center of gravitation. He was the Creator of gravitation. He held gravitation at His own command, as He held death at His own command.
"All powers in the heavens and earth is given unto My hand. Go and I'll go with you. As My Father has sent Me, so send I you." The Father that sent Him, went with Him, and was in Him. And the same Christ that sends, He comes with us and in us to the end of the world. "And the things that I do, shall you also; even more than this for I go to My Father." The infallible words of the living God can never fail. They're God's Word.

L-46 Watch him. He thought he destroyed it. Then Satan started his great corruptible, vile lie, when he said to the soldiers, "Go up there to the high priest, the intellectuals, the scholars, the big church." And let me say this with respects and with reverence. No time in the Bible or after this side of the Bible did a servant of the living God ever tolerate with the known ecclesiastical realms. Do you follow me?
Maybe I say this. That in the days of the prophets, they were against the theology of the day. In the days of John, he called them a bunch of vipers. Jesus called them the same thing, hypocrites, Pharisees. "Pharisee" means "actors, put on." How about Luther, Calvin, Knox, Wesley, Spurgeon, Sankey, Finney, all down along the age? It's been men who stood alone in convictions of the resurrection of the beloved Son of the living God. That's right.

L-47 So the Pharisees have set themselves against Him, because it didn't cope with their theologies. But it didn't do no good. So when they heard that this had started, they said to the soldiers... They knew... Now, I'm coming to the close. They knew, if it could ever be proved (Hear me.), if it was ever proved that He raised from the dead, He was the infallible God. It was settled forever.
Any man, and He was no more than any other philosopher in the way of speech. His miracles, He said, proved He was sent by God. Said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do. And if I do not the works of the Father, then believe Me not."

L-48 But notice. But all those promises that He had given us that we would raise again, all the promise He's given us of Eternal Life, all those, if He would've never raised from the dead would've died with Him.
And the devil knew that. And he put in the hearts of those philosophers, or religious teachers of that day, to hire the soldiers, to give them money to say that He never raised from the dead, but His disciples come and stoled Him away while they slept.
And it's still believed among the Jews. And today it's believed among the people. And maybe some of them wouldn't confess it with their lips, but way down deep in their heart they're actions speaks louder than words.

L-49 If He's raised from the dead, the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." Hebrews 13:8. If He is the same He's got to be the same in principle, power, manifestation. Everything that He was, He is now if He's raised from the dead.
If He hasn't, then He--we're just worshipping a form, a creed, and denomination, a intellectual religion. But if it's a true religion, the true Christ religion... Everybody could have a religion. Buddha is a religion. Mohammedan is a religion. But this is salvation. If it is truly salvation, then it... Christ our Redeemer lives. If you...


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