<TITLE>09. Par 73-81</TITLE>L-73 How we know to go through those places. How we know, we're all acquainted with those things.
I remember when I laid a precious one yonder in the grave up on top the hill yonder, called the Eastern, or the Walnut Ridge Cemetery. How I laid a little baby in there. And I had crawled on mother's arm, till I cried till I couldn't cry no more. I'd done everything that I knowed, till I took a gun, to try to commit suicide; I was in such a time. And it was at that hour in that little room up there on my knees, that the heavens opened back, and I saw her standing there in the splendor of immortality. It was in that hour that I felt her arms come around my shoulders, said, "Bill, you don't understand. We're so much better off than you."

L-75 See, it takes a crucifixion. It takes a crushing of the flower to bring perfume from it. It takes a crushing of a life to get the best out of it that there is. That's the reason Jesus had to be crushed to bring forth what He was. He could not stand before the crucifixion and say, "All power in heavens and earth is given unto My hands." But after the crucifixion, He could stand and say, "All powers in heavens and earth is given unto My hand." But what did it do? It taken crucifixion first.
It taken the crushing and the disappointing of the apostles. It seen their Saviour, the One they'd loved, and seen Him even raise up the dead from the--from the grave. They seen Him do that. And then think, "There He lays, cold in the grave Himself this morning." It taken the...

L-77 Those people who had seen Him open the eyes of the blind, seen Him stand there and perceive the very thoughts that was in the people's hearts, "How did He know," they'd say, "that them were coming after Him? How did He know? Why didn't He know Judas would--Judas would--would betray Him? Why didn't He know the soldiers were coming up the mountains there with staves and swords and everything to get Him, if He could perceive their thoughts?"
See, the devil was working on them, putting them on a ash heap, for they wanted to give them a testimony of "I know." (Not "I guess, or perhaps it's so.") "I know. I know."
And remember, those trials are brought upon you the same way, so that you'll not say, "Well, maybe this is right, maybe the Scripture's true, maybe Divine healing's right, maybe the Holy Ghost is right." But when you get that experience and come off that ash heap, and you get the revelation of God, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you can scream, "I know my Redeemer liveth, because He lives in me."

L-80 Peter said, "I'll go fishing." The apostles said, "I believe I'll just go with you." And there was on their ash heap, down there in the midst of the sea, and the trouble going on the way it was. And I can hear one of them say, "Oh, how could it happen, Peter? How could it be such a thing that a Man like that could die? How could He be put into the grave the way He was? How could He stand to let them spit in His face and jerk beard out, put that crown on His head? How could He do that, oh, and still be God? I just can't understand it." Oh, what a disappointment.

L-81 And all of a sudden, they looked over on the bank, just the same kind of a revelation that Job got, there they seen what Job seen four thousand years before. There stood the Redeemer, alive and fresh, standing on the bank, with a fire made, and fish cooked on it like that, and said, invited them.
Jesus has a table spread where the saints of God are fed,
He invites His chosen people "Come and dine;"
With His manna He doth feed and supplies our every need;
Oh, 'tis sweet to sup with Jesus all the time!
How we can think that, how that it taken those great things...


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