<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 Now, our Lord Jesus, as we are speaking of Him, I love to read after Him, because He never made one mistake. Everything He done was perfectly in harmony with God. Oh, how much time that we waste as we leisure around. But you never found Jesus at no time, ever what we call gadding around. Every move, every place He went, everything He did, ever word He spoke had a meaning to it and was exactly in harmony with God and the will of God. That's the reason that He was so pleased with Him, saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased." Everything was perfectly in harmony with Him.
And now, sometimes God meets in councils of men. Sometime in a council of--of... One time in five hundred He met in a council. Another time, He met in a council of seventy, one time in--in twenty-four, another time in twelve, once in three, and sometimes only one. But Jesus left this blessed Word to us, that wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst.

L-17 So, God is just getting ready to do something here, in our text. He's fixing to declare to a world a picture that I think that the whole world ought to know. And God, before He does anything, He always bears witness of what He does, puts it down and makes a memorial, or a witness of what He is going to do.
And we find Him here, taking Peter, James, and John, taking them aside and going up into a high mountain, apart.
Now, it is written in the Old Testament that three is a confirmation. And God is trying to do something here, or going to do something, rather; and when He does, He wants it confirmed. God doesn't do things just at leisure or just haphazardly. He means it for a purpose. The Bible wasn't put here just for man to just look at it, argue, and fuss about. The Bible was put here for correction. It's a life that's to be led. And it's a road map from mortal to immortality.

L-18 And God was going to make witnesses. So He taken the appropriated number three: Peter, James, and John.
If you notice, when He went to raise the daughter of Jairus, the priest, He put them out except Peter, James, and John: three for a witness.
Now, this could be very well applied here. The three witnesses stand for the three great, major fruits of the church: Love, faith, and hope. The Bible said these are the greatest: love, faith and hope. John represented love; Peter represented faith; and James represented hope. Watch their lives, you Bible readers, and see how beautifully they lived that life.
John the beloved, one time wanted to call fire out of heaven and burn up the--the country. And the same one become the most loving of all the apostles. Peter, impetuous as he was, but he had that determined, everlasting faith, that he wasn't scared to grab anything. And James, always trying to present the hope of anything to them.


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