<TITLE>15. Par 127-131</TITLE>L-127 Now, in Matthew 16:13, we find this, if you that's putting the Scriptures down. Matthew... If you want to return--if you want to turn to it, all right, Matthew 16:13. It's... Oh, we can turn back and read it, and then we'll have it sure. Matthew the 16th chapter and the 13th verse. Listen closely now as we read: 16:13, "When Peter came..." Or:
When Jesus came unto the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say... I the Son of man am?
And they said, Some say... thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, and, or one of the prophets.
He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona:... flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but My Father which is in heaven.
And I say... unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And now... and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: whatsoever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

L-128 Listen close now. All right. "For the time begin... From that time begin He..." I want to get another, you can read it on down. I'll get the 28th verse here, 'cause you can read the rest of it when you go home.
Verily, verily I say unto you. There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, until they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Oh, think of it. "Some standing here, some standing here, shall not taste of death until they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom." What a statement. How the critic likes to pick that up and just show how dumb he is. See? How he likes to get ahold of that, and it's come to pass and they didn't know nothing about it. See? All right.

L-130 After Peter's rock confession, which we know that his confession is... He would build His church on this same rock, not Peter, being a little stone, as the Roman Catholic tries to say it. But Peter's confession of the revelation, that's the church. God will reveal it; not a confession of this man, because later he backslid. Not a confession of Him being the Son of God; because they knew He was the Son of God; Peter just said it. But what it was, was, the revelation that'd been revealed from heaven that He was the Son of God. Said, "Flesh and blood's never taught it to you, but My Father which is in heaven revealed it to you. And upon this rock, that rock confession, I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not affect--prevail against it."

L-131 Hope we don't run out of time too quick here now, that we can get right into this. And we want to see how that flows into the human being. It's a beautiful story right here if we can just get to it. All right.
Yes, the rock confession, what Peter was... He would build His church upon Peter's confession. He said, "Some that stand here shall not taste of death till they see the--the Son of God coming in His Kingdom."
Now, remember, He spoke "some." That was more than one, wasn't it? Some would be many, "more than one." But now look, all of His disciples was standing there, and He was asking each one of them, "What do you think about this? And what do you think about that?" But He said, "There's some of you standing here, some standing here, will not taste of death until they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom." Oh, my. What a statement. Think, two thousand years ago that was stated. Well, it was.


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