<TITLE>09. Par 295-307</TITLE>L-295   Listen at the last verse now. All right.
... he is able to succour those that are tempted.
Or, in other words, He is able to secure those, to help those, to make those... to sympathize with them. Because, God Himself became man, in order to feel it.

L-296 Remember, the other night, didn't we teach on that? How that God had to... Death had a sting in it, a scare in it. "All their days they were in bondage about this death." And then Jesus came, that He might take that stinger out of death.
And when He was going up the mountain, remember how we illustrated it? Them little red dots on His coat, after while they all become one big dot, and splashing the Blood around Him. His little, frail body, He couldn't go any further, and He fell. Simon Cyrene, the colored man, helped Him bear the cross on up the hill.
And when they nailed Him to the cross, and He screamed for water. Any man bleeding needs water.

L-297   Remember when I preached the other night on "The deer and the hart thirsts for the water brook, so my soul panteth after Thee, O God"? If the deer is wounded and living, losing blood, he's got to get to water or he'll die.

L-298 I was shot, down in the field, when I was fourteen years old. And I was laying there. My legs blowed over me, like hamburger, from a twelve-gauge shotgun. And I screamed for water, "Oh, give me a drink!" I numb; my lips was numb.

L-299 My buddy run over to an old pool, had all kinds of little old wiggletails, swamp. I didn't care what it was. And he racked it full of water, and I held my mouth open, and he squeezed his cap out like that, in my mouth. You had to have water.

L-300 He was bleeding. He said, "Give me a drink." And they give him vinegar on a sponge, and He rejected it, and refused it. He was God's Lamb dying in our stead, to bring reconciliation to the human being. What was it? The God of Heaven.

L-301   Billy Sunday once said, that, "Every bush had Angels setting in it, saying, 'Just pull Your hand loose and point Your finger, We'll change the situation.'"

L-302 That sassy bunch of religious fanatics, called some big educated scholars of D.D., Ph.D., walked by Him and said, "Now, if you are the Son of God! You saved others; yourself you can't save. Come down off the cross, and we'll believe you."

L-303 They didn't know that they was paying Him a compliment. He could have saved Himself. But if He saved Himself, others He could not save. So, He gave Himself. Blessed be His Name. He gave Himself, that I could be saved and you could be saved. Oh, what matchless love!

L-304   He didn't have to be sick. That precious virgin-born body didn't have to be sick. But He became sick, that He might know how to intercede for me when I was sick.

L-305 He didn't have to weary, but He did weary. I read a little history one time on it, I don't know whether it was authentic or not. "When He raised that boy from Nain there, up from the dead, He set on a rock and groaned with a headache," 'cause He had to bear our sickness.

L-306 He had to bear our sin, and there He died, and on Calvary when that old bee and death once anchored its stinger. Anyone knows, when a bee anchors its stinger, it can't sting no more. When the bee flies away or any insect that stings, when he anchors his stinger, he pulls the stinger out. He's still a bee but he hasn't got a stinger. The only thing he can do is buzz and make a lot of noise.

L-307 That's the only thing that death can do to the believer, is make a lot of noise. But, hallelujah, blessed be the Name of the Lord, He anchored that stinger of death in His own flesh. Emmanuel did it. Rose up again, on the third day, shook the stinger out of there, and is Immortal tonight. And His Spirit is in this building, and He proves Hisself alive among us. That's our Messiah. That's our blessed Saviour.

