<TITLE>19. Par 183-185</TITLE>L-183 Now, it's just like if you was reading a love story. And you... That's the last book of Matthew, last part of Matthew. If you picked up a love story, some of you ladies... I know you don't do it; sure you wouldn't do that; no, no. See? But if you did it when you was a sinner (See?), you picked up the story down in the... You know, when you was a little old girl, and you picked up this story, said, "John and Mary lived happy ever after." Huh. Who's John and Mary? Now, there's only one way for you to know who John and Mary is; that's go back to the first of the book and read it. Is that right?
Well, then in the last book of Matthew, the last verse, that Jesus said, "Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe whatever I have commanded them." Now, if--if Father's no name, and Son's no name, and the Holy Ghost is no name, better go back to the first of the Book. See? Now, if we go back to the first of the Book, 1st chapter of Matthew, you find this.

L-185 I'd just like to give this little illustration on account of there might be somebody here that never seen it. Watch this, This is the Father; this is the Son; and this is the Holy Ghost. Now, watch close. Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That's what Jesus said in Matthew 28:19. Is that right? Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Now, Who is this? Father. Listen class. Father, Holy Ghost, Son. Now, Who's this? Holy Ghost. Who's this? [Congregation says, "Father"--Ed.] Who's this? [Congregation says, "Son"--Ed.] Son. All right. Now, this was the Father of Who? Jesus Christ. Is that right?
Now, Matthew the 1st chapter, 28th verse, let's read it. We'll take the love story now and see what it reads like. We'll see Who--Who this Fellow was that--of--that He said, "Go baptize them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost." All right. Now, the 1st chapter of Matthew starts out with the genealogies:
The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, a son of Abraham.
Abraham begot Isaac;... Isaac got Jacob;...
And on and on and on, on down till it comes to the--the 18th verse. Now, you see, you go ahead down here to the 17th verse:
And so all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away of Babylon... fourteen generations; and... the carrying away of Babylon unto Christ were fourteen generations.
Now, the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When... his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph,...
Are you reading behind me? Listen close:
When... his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph,... she was found with a... before they came together, she was found with a child of God the Father.
Does that read like that? Found with a child of what? [Congregation says, "The Holy Ghost."--Ed.] Well, I thought somebody said this was His Father. Now, if the Holy Ghost is one person, and the Father's another person, then He had two fathers. What you got? A illegitimate child. "Oh," you said, "they just slipped up and made a misprint there." All right:
And Joseph her husband, being a just man, not... and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the [Congregation says, "Holy Ghost."--Ed.]


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