<TITLE>08. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 But he rejected it. And the next morning, he died by a firing squad. He had the news of he was free, but he wouldn't accept it. Then, that was tried in Federal Court, and here was the--the verdict of the Federal Court. Here was Abraham Lincoln's name, the President of the United States signed that this man was free, and should not die by a firing squad. And yet he died by a firing squad. Now, what? Here was their verdict. "A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon."
Hear Ye Him; it's a challenge. It's a command. It's a pardon. It's all that you have need of, if you'll just accept it in that way. But if you do not accept it that way, it's just another piece of paper.

L-28 God, before He does anything, before He--any notable thing, He always makes it known that He's going to do it.
I think that's what's happening right now. That this nation is so combed by evangelism, there's something fixing to happen.
And this time, there was going to be a great thing happen. So He called three of His servants. And three is a witness in the Old Testament. "Out of the mouths of two or three witnesses, let every word be established."
And God meets in different counsels of men. Sometimes He meets with large numbers, sometimes with small numbers. Once He met with five hundred, again He met with seventy, then with twelve, three, even to one. That's what makes Him so real.

L-29 So, we find that they was called out: Peter, James, and John. And if you notice, Jesus always taken those three with Him wherever He went: In the house of the--the priest that He rose his daughter...
Always wanted to think of it this a way. The three was--was: faith, hope, and charity. Peter represented faith. James represented hope, and John love, charity. Faith, hope and charity, it bears witness to God.
And they went up on what we are--know to be the Mount Transfiguration. It must've been a great place. Peter, later in one of the Epistles wrote and called it the holy mountain. Now, he did not mean the mountain was holy. It isn't the holy mountain, it was the holy God on the mountain. It isn't the holy church; it isn't the holy people; it's the Holy Ghost in the Church and in the people.
Then we find Him as they went up they... Also three to bear record on earth. This was a very special occasion, so three came from heaven to make heaven and earth agree. There they seen transfigured, the Lord Jesus, heavenly. And they seen Moses and Elijah. Three of them. Three on earth, three in heaven.

L-30 Now, what He was doing here... God has never asked a man to do anything that He Himself would not do. That's the reason that I appreciate Brother Clibborn's song here. I like to sing it in a day when they try to make Jesus just a prophet, try to take Deity away from Him.
Some time ago, a woman who belongs to a church that believes He was just a prophet, just a good man, a teacher. If He was that, we're all in sin. God created that body, Jehovah, and He built the own Tabernacle that He lived in. The Son of God, Jesus Christ was a Tabernacle that God dwelt in Himself. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.


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