<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 I want you to notice how beautiful that those three man typed that, the spirits that was in those men. Peter--faith, right out ready to tackle anything, James--hope, John--charity. Faith, hope, and charity. And it is written in the Word that three is a witness or a confirmation. The Bible said, "In the mouth of three witnesses let every word be established." Three is--was a witness in the Old Testament. If there was an accusation against someone, it had to be witnessed by three. And it's also carried over into the New Testament, that three is a witness.
And we find that God was fixing to do something. And God, when He does anything, He always brings witness. We find at Pentecost, He said, "Wait at the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high, then you shall be witnesses of Me," preparing His witnesses, God sent witnesses.

L-10 And He was taking these three great spirits with Him to witness what God was fixing to do. Now, God never does anything without first confirming it, making it known. He does nothing in darkness. God's in and above board. All that He does, what you hear in the secret chamber, preach on a housetop. God don't want anything covered up.
And now, this might help you. And when men and women who profess to be Christians and never testify to the unsaved, or let their light shine, there's something wrong with that individual. God wants you to let the light shine; give Him praise anywhere, as Paul said of old, "I'm not ashamed of the Gospel, for it's the power of God unto salvation."

L-11 And we find these three witnesses going up to give testimony of what God was fixing to do. Now, in the Old Testament... All the Old Testament was practically types and shadows of the New. God never asked a man to do anything that He wouldn't do Himself.
When God put penalty of death on the human race there was only one just thing for God to do. If He'd have sent an Angel, God would have been unjust. If He'd have sent another creature out of heaven, He would've been unjust. But the only way that God could do it was take the sinner's place Himself. Therefore, He had to become flesh. And He'd lived in His only begotten Son, tabernacled here on earth in a Body, Christ Jesus, and made a little lower than the Angels to suffer death.

L-12 We had it in the message last night, that He had to catch the stinger in death in His own flesh and pull the sting out of death. Oh, brother, sister, what a marvelous revelation, what a marvelous truth it is to know that God has took the sting out of death.
And I've stood in the face of dying saints, watch them raise their hands, and tears rolling down their cheek, and shout the victory right in the face of death; it's a beautiful sight.
And we find now in the Old Testament... There's many words in our new King James Version that seems very strange. But for me, the rest of you brethren can teach from any version you want to, but I like the King James. Just seems more like the Bible to me. And in there there's some translations that might seem just a little bit strange to us. For instance, in John 14 it said, "In My Father's house is many mansions." My Father's little house has got many great big mansions in it. Now, that seems strange, but the translators that was translating the Bible for King James, used the language that they used in that day. And in England they had the same setup that they had in the Old Testament. Now, in England they had what they called the father's house, was his domain, the king's domain.


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