<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Oh, it must have been a dark time when their doctor had failed them, when their Friend had failed them. And Lazarus was now dying. And the fourth day came, and he hemorrhaged his last time and went to be with God. They taken him out, pulled the blood from his body, put spices and spikenard into his veins, wrapped him in cloth, and laid him in the grave. And he laid there four days, dead. His body was smelling.
Now, anyone knows that the human body drops to pieces after about seventy-two hours. That's the reason Jesus had to raise before the three days was up. In seventy-two hours the corruption sets in.
And David in the Bible said, eight hundred years before Christ was born, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, said, "I'll not suffer My holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell." That's the reason He said, "Destroy this body and I'll raise it up within three days." He knew that no corruption would set in. So He died on Friday afternoon and rose up again on Sunday morning, is because He knowed not one cell of that blessed body could corruption touch. For God's Word is so infallible. Oh, my. He keeps His Word to the letter. "He will not suffer My holy One to see corruption. Neither will He leave His soul in hell." God's infallible Word could not fail.

L-16 There laid His body, sure, people questioned. They said, "Three days and nights." But it was within three days and nights He said. He knew that it couldn't completely be three days and nights 'cause corruption would set in.
So here was Lazarus; four days had passed. The nose had already fell in on the face. The fingers had already turned. The skin worms had begin to crawl into his body and eat up his flesh. Oh, it must've been the darkest hour that little family ever seen, their Friend gone, their church, they were excommunicated. Their brother was dead. And the people were scoffing and laughing at them, as those two little girls sat together in the home with their black veils over their face as the oriental custom is, setting there with weeping and mourning of the going of their brother.

L-17 There they was. No one but who set in those type of homes, no one but those who set by the side of their loved one... We know, many of you know how we set by our loved one. Roy, I can see you setting beside that little boy. Brother Roberson, I can see you and Sister Roberson setting by the side of her mother. Oh, how the many of you... I can see myself setting by the side of my little gone baby about eight months old. We know what those things are. Oh, what dark hours.
But it was the darkest hour that little family had ever seen. And about that time Jesus come on the scene. It's usually that's the way He does it. It's in the darkest of hour, and then Jesus comes on the scene.

L-18 It was way down in Babylon one morning many years ago, when three Hebrew children that had been taken down there captive away from their homeland... They were sad because they were captive. They were sad because there was no place to worship. But they still lived true to God.
And there came a bunch of deceivers along, and they passed a proclamation that whosoever wouldn't bow to a image, which was contrary to their religion, would be throwed into the fiery furnace. And the king with his great brawl came out and said, "Whosoever will not bow to this image must go into this fiery furnace and be burned up."


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