<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Now, we would like to say, that on this Scripture reading tonight, on the 17th chapter, when you go home I wish you to read that chapter through.
Now, we find that Jesus was fixing to do something great, on a great occasion was fixing to happen. And when God gets ready to do things great, the first thing God usually does is make it known in the heavens above first. He always declares His works in the heaven before He does on the earth.
Like at the birth of the Lord Jesus, who was the first ones come, what declared it first: A star begin to sweep across the skies. The magis come all the way from the East to--to Jerusalem from over in India, the three magis.

L-25 When I was in India, you still see them the same way, set right on the street, what they call the wise men, or the magis, star gazers, as some of them call them.
But God always declares things in the heaven before He does on the earth. And this was a special occasion. Peter, later on in life, referred to it as the Holy Mount.
Now, I don't believe that the apostle meant that the mountain was holy, because it was just a mountain. Battles had been fought there and everything. It wasn't a holy mountain. But it was a holy God on the mountain, not the holy mountain.
We hear so much today about the holy church or the holy people. There is no holy church or holy people; it's the Holy Ghost in the people that makes the holiness. It is not the holy church, or the holy people; it's the Holy Ghost in the Church.

L-26 Now, on this occasion, God chose three to give witness. He took aside Peter, James, and John. And if you notice, always when He went to do something great, He taken those three. Wonder why? Peter, James, John: Hope, faith, and charity, the three greatest of the gifts of God: hope, faith and charity. John, of course, being love was charity; and James is hope; and Peter was faith. And He taken hope, faith, and charity to give--to find out, or to place in them, what He was going to do.
Now, we find out that when He went up to this place, which later was called the "holy mountain", or "the holy place where God was", we find that up there, when they got on the mountain, God had three out of heaven to bear record. Upon the mountain was Moses, and Elijah, and Jesus. Then here on earth was three earth creatures: Peter, James, and John. And there was Moses, Elijah ,and Jesus, three witnesses of heaven, three witnesses on the earth.

L-27 When God gets ready to do something, He always has a witness of it. I'm so glad today that we can look around before the coming of the Lord and see the witnesses of His appearing, seeing the signs in the church of the near approaching of the Lord Jesus Christ, seeing it word by word fulfilled. Even the last sign that was to be given to the Church before the appearing of the Lord Jesus, it's working in the Church right now. The last thing...
Remember, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."
Look what the sinners was doing in Sodom. Look what the Angel of the Lord did when He come down to bear record of it. Watch what the three angels did, all three of them. Look at the world today in its sin. Look at the church today in its condition like Lot. Look at the called-out church having a struggle like Abraham was. The man or woman today that tries to live for God has a struggle to keep on going. You have to press into the Kingdom of God.


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