<TITLE>05. Par 257-268</TITLE>L-257 Why, at one time, He needed some money, and He said, "Peter, there's a fish, a while ago, swallowed a coin, just enough, much as we need. Go cast the hook in. I'll send him over there. Take that coin out of his mouth, 'cause he can't use it, himself. Go pay him our tithing and tribute." Amen.

L-258   And a few weeks ago, I seen a little fish killed, laying on the water. All of you heard the story of it. There's Brother Woods, and his brother and them here to witness it. That little fish laying dead for a half hour, on the water, with his entrails pulled out of its mouth. And the great Holy Spirit swept down, after He said, the day before, "You're going to see the resurrection of a little animal." And the next morning about, little after sunup, we saw that little fishy, not over that long. When the Spirit of the Lord came down, and said, "Little fish, Jesus Christ makes you whole." And that dead fish, had been floating on top the water for practically a half hour, come to life and swam away just as hard as he could. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. How wonderful He is!

L-259   No wonder Paul could say, that, "He was in the order of Melchisedec." He was Melchisedec. "Melchisedec had no beginning of days. He had no ending of years. He had no beginning of life or ending in life. He had neither father nor mother." So, He couldn't been no one else. Ever who He was, He's alive yet tonight. So, He's only one type of Eternal Life, and that belongs to God.

L-260 Last evening when we were having a discussion, a brother could not understand the trinity of God, and how we were talking about it. How that Jesus stood there, a Man, of about thirty years old. And He said...
They said, "Oh, our fathers eat manna in the wilderness."

L-261 He said, "And they're, every one, dead." But He said, "I'm that Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven, that a man eats and don't die."

L-262 "Oh," they said, "our fathers drank from the Rock in the wilderness."

L-263 He said, "I'm That Rock." A Man of thirty years old. Said, "Abraham rejoiced to see My day."

L-264 "Why," said, "now You mean to tell me that You're as old as Abraham, and You're not fifty years old yet, and mean to say that You've seen Abraham who has been dead eight hundred years? We know that You got a devil now. You're crazy." That's what's... That's what a devil mean, "crazy" person." Said, "You got a devil, and You're mad."

L-265 He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

L-266 That's who He was. He wasn't just merely a man, neither was He a prophet. He was God, God dwelling on earth in a body of flesh called "Jesus," the--the incarnate Son of God. That's exactly who He was.

L-267   Now, we find Him over here, that in the last part now, of the closing of the 2nd chapter, which I want to get to, beginning with the 16th verse, or the 15th verse.
And delivered them... through the fear of death--of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
That's what he said that Jesus did, that He come to deliver them from bondage, who had been in fear of death all their lifetime.

L-268 Now there's no need of fearing death. Now, of course, we do; we, none of us want to, what we call, die. But do you know that if a person is born again he cannot die? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] How can he have Eternal Life and then die? He can't do it. The only thing that's death, the word death, means "the separation." Now he'll separate from the presence of our eye. But he's always in the Presence of God, and always will be. So, death isn't a hard thing. Death is a glorious thing. Death is what takes us in the Presence of God.


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