<TITLE>08. Par 32-36</TITLE>L-32 And God, taking His Church, who empties themself out and is nothing but the pliable in the hands of God. God cut His Own Son down, and took the Life from His Son, by beatings, and bruises, and poured it into the believer, and he become chastened ready for the judgment.
That's the only thing that'll take the judgment. It passed right over the judgments, 'cause she went right through the... The water was the judgment, and it passed through the judgment. It was a witness that God knew what He was doing. Noah followed the Word of God. Many things could be said.
Now, Daniel was a witness that there was an Angel in heaven, or a God in heaven, that knowed the secrets of the heart. For he sent His Angels and delivered Daniel. Many others was witness.

L-33 When Jesus died on the cross, the heavens give witness. There is the material. That is the thing. If you'll notice all creation give witness to it. Right in the middle of the day, when God had prophesied before when the sabbath would cease, said it'll be a time when the sun goes down in the middle of the day. And from the sixth until the ninth hour it was darkness. What was it?
The sun, not like darkness doesn't mean it's got a little light in it. Darkness is absolutely total darkness, so dark like it was in Egypt till it could be felt, not a ray of light. And the sun gave witness... There's the one, that's the material that God's going to build a church out of. The moon and stars gave witness. When He died the heavens gave witness; the earth belched up; the rocks rent out; the earth give witness. And the saints that slept in the dirt--dust of the earth, rose, gave witness.

L-34 The people at Pentecost when they were making fun, Peter stood up and gave witness. But some of that same Light that had been beat out of Him at Calvary, was poured into Peter in the form of the Holy Ghost. And he stood there as a witness, God's Word. And he gave witness with a text out of the Scripture that said, "You men of Judaea and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you, and hearken to my word. For these are not drunk as you suppose, but this is that, that was spoke of by the prophet Joel. 'It'll come to pass in the last days I'll pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh.'" He was a witness.
Now, we're coming into these last and evil days, when he's going to have witnesses. He's got to have witnesses. God lives. God's Word's eternal. Now, let's take back to our Scripture reading.

L-35 Jesus coming off the mount, He was hungry, and He looked in a tree, and there was no fruit on it. He, perhaps, never raised His voice. He never stood up and said, "Now, gentlemen, stand to one side I want to show you My power." He said, "Now, I have power to make that tree do such-and-such." He never said that.
He just walked up to it, and He didn't find no--no nothing on it. So He said, "No man eateth from thee," walked away.
Peter heard it. And the next day when he come by, oh, the tree was still there, but it was dead. And he remarked about it, how quick that tree had dried up from its roots.

L-36 Jesus said, "No..." And look it wasn't the trees fault. It was not time for figs yet. But He did it to magnify Himself, to prove Himself, to... He was the Messiah and that was one of the testimonies that He was the Messiah; that was a seal of His Messiahship. The last seal was His resurrection and His ascension; that was the last seal of His Messiahship. What He done was the proof that He was.
Now, He never went around and said, "All you trees die." He just did it there so that the disciples, that was going to write this Scripture later, would know that He was Messiah. See?


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