<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And the real correct approach to this text tonight, is the order of the second coming of Christ. How that, first he saw Jesus, then Moses and Elijah, and then Jesus only. Truly that is in perfect harmony with the second coming of Christ. And He had said just previous to this, that, "Many stand here shall not see death until they see the Son of man in His glory." And that was a prefigure of His coming in glory.
But we want to take a new route on this tonight, another way around, because every Word of God dovetails together. There is no contradiction in God's Word. I'd like to see the Scripture that contradicts itself that cannot be straightened by the same Scripture. It is written, surely in parables, because it's a purposely did that way to confuse the wise and prudent, that God might reveal it to babes such as would learn.

L-6 Now, we find this, that God meets in the council of men; sometimes great, large councils of men. We see once where He appeared before five hundred brethren. Again He appeared in the presence of seventy, then in twenty-four, or twelve, three, and even to one. Christ will appear before any honest heart. No matter how insignificant you may seem to be, you're a--you're soul is worth ten thousand worlds.
Sometime ago down in Tennessee, I was standing at a great museum, and I was looking in the glass with some young fellows was standing next to me, and it was showing the chemical worth of a hundred and fifty pound man. And it might surprise you to know how much you're really worth. If you're in good health, a good, strong man at a hundred and fifty pounds worth eighty-four cents. Well, you're not worth very much are you? Just about enough whitewash to sprinkle a hen's nest, a little, bitty calcium and so forth, all weighed up to eighty-four cents worth of chemicals in your body...

L-7 One young fellow said to the other; he said, "John, we're not worth very much are we?"
I thought this was a grand opportunity. I laid my hands on each one of the boy's shoulders as I stepped between them, and I said, "That's true son, we're not worth very much in this body, but in that body's got a soul in it that's worth ten thousand worlds."
But we want to take care of this eighty-four cents. We give it the best of clothes, feed it the best of foods, and put a ten dollar hat on it, and, oh, how we love to take care of this eighty-four cents. But that soul, we just let it grap over any old world and anything else, not noticing or paying any attention to it, drag it down to church and sleep while the preacher preaches twenty minutes, and have a deacon's meeting that he preached too long. That soul is worth ten thousand worlds.

L-8 But we find in this Scripture, that Jesus had chose three of His apostles. I just love to think on the numatics of the Bible, how the threes, sevens, twelves, forties, fifties. And if you get those numbers running right you can just place the Bible like one great picture.
And three is a perfection like Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and water, blood, and spirit, and so forth. And the three comings of Jesus, once He come to redeem His Bride, next time He comes to get His Bride, the next time He comes with His Bride after the Marriage Supper.
Then we find that He taken three chosen vessels: Peter, James, and John. And in the Bible we're taught: love, hope, and charity; or faith, hope, and charity it is: faith, hope, and charity.


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