<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Listen to His words, at... Now, Saint John 5:19: Verily, verily (which means absolutely), I say unto thee, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Now, John 5:19... Now, if the Scriptures cannot be broken, if Jesus did anything without the Father telling Him first what to do, He told something wrong there. "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees (not hears)--what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." In other words, He acted it out in drama. There never was a prophet; there never was a man in the Scripture, ever done things at random. First, it was vision.
Someone said not long ago, "Call fire down or something another like Elijah did."
I said, "First, God showed Elijah."
"Oh, no," said the man. "He did not."
I said, "Elijah laid those sticks and things in order. And he said, 'Lord, I've done all of this at Your command.'" Always--no man--there's never been a man, even to the Son of Man, the Son of God, could ever say within Himself that He did anything outside of God. And if a man tells you he can heal you, what position does he put himself in?
When even the Son of God said He didn't heal people. "Not Me that doeth the works. It's my Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. And I do nothing till He shows Me what to do first." That was Jesus yesterday. That's Jesus today.

L-25 Now, let's follow Him just a little bit and see what He would do. We read out of Saint John the 1st--the 12th chapter. Let's turn back now. These hungry hearted Greeks... Let's go back to the 1st chapter and just read His life.
And now, if we can find what He did yesterday, if He will do the same today, and will let us see Him do it right here before us all, we'll all be happy about it, won't we, and know that He still lives?
Now, remember, let me quote this before I go back. "A little while and the world will see Me no more." Now, that word there is "kosmos," which means "the world order." "The world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (that's the believer), for I will be with you to the end of the age (the end of the world)."

L-26 Now, the world won't see, no matter... There's people born--we hate to say this--there's people that were born to eternal destruction. The Scripture says so. Romans 8 said, "Before that Esau or Jacob was ever born or come from their mother's womb, God said, 'I hate Esau and love Jacob,' before either child had a chance." God by, not predestination by His will, but by His foreknowledge He knew that Esau was a shyster to begin with. Excuse that expression, but that just means a renegade. So that's what he was. And God by foreknowledge knew it.
And some people, no matter what you would do, they'll still disbelieve it. But God's just, He keeps His Word.

L-27 They never knew Elisha, or they wouldn't have sent those little kids behind him when Elisha, "Old bald head, why didn't you go up?" And Elisha turned and cursed those children. Two she bears killed forty-two children.
They didn't know John the Baptist. Even his disciples didn't know him, till after he was beheaded. They said to the--Jesus, "Why does the Scribes say that Elias must first come?"
Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know him." No one knew, hardly, but just a very few, that Jesus was the Son of God until His death, burial, and resurrection.


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