<TITLE>20. Par 70-73</TITLE>L-70 When Jesus was on earth, Jesus was certain of the Father's Word. He said, "You destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up again in three days." Not, "I'll try to, maybe it will, perhaps it'll work." He was certain.
Why? David said so. "I'll not suffer My holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell." He knowed corruption set in in three days; somewhere within that three days, He'd rise again. He believed the Father's Word. "Destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up again in three days." "I will,"; not "I'll try to."

L-71 When Martha come to Him and said--said, "Our--our brother Lazarus, Lord, if You'd have been here, he would've not have died. But even now, whatever you ask God, God will do it."
He said, "I'm the Resurrection and the Life, saith God. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord." Haaa... "I--I--I think so, Lord. I--I'm pretty sure, that they tell me that You're just a Beelzebub. They tell me You read people's minds." Huh-uh, it wouldn't have happened. "Yea, Lord, I believe. (Glory to God.) I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world." Oh, oh. Something's got to happen. Listen, that's positive. That's positive. When two straight ultimatives meet, something has to happen. Oh, yes. Oh, sure it does. Said, "I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world."
What did Jesus say to her? What did He say? "Well, I tell you what... Where have you buried him? I'll go down and try and see what I can do about it." Huh-uh. "I'll go down and ask the Father and see what He will do." Oh, no. Huh-uh, He didn't say that. He said, "I'll go and wake him." There's nothing uncertain about that. "I'll go awake him." "I will" not "I will try." "I will." He knowed exactly what God had showed Him, and He knowed it was going to happen. "I'll go and wake Him." No uncertain sound in that (No, sir.), not a bit of uncertainty about that...

L-72 Oh, "Destroy this body, I'll raise it up in three days." Jesus said, "If I--if you be in Me and My Word in you, you can ask what you will, and it'll be done to you." "It--it--maybe it'll be done to you"? No, no, there's no uncertainty about that. "I will. It will be done. It shall be done." Is that right?
When He looked at that fig tree and cursed it, and twenty-four hours later He come by, and it was withered, Peter said, "Look, the tree is already withering."
Jesus said, "Have faith in God. For verily, verily, I say unto you, if you (Not me, but you... Amen, brethren.)--if you say to this mountain... (Not if I say, but if you say to this mountain), 'Be moved and plucked up and cast into the sea;' and won't doubt, but believe that what you have said shall come to pass, you shall have what you say." Amen. Not maybe you will, not maybe you will; but you will.

L-73 Sinner man (painted this dark picture here at the first of my sermon, about the hour we're standing), let me quote you a word. Think of it. Saint John 5:24--5, handful, two dozen of eggs. Read it when you go home. "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me..." (If you nation's breaking, if your home's a breaking, if your nerves are breaking, if your health's a breaking, if your hopes is breaking, everything breaking), but Jesus Christ said this: "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life, and shall not come to the judgment, but hath passed from death unto Life." Hallelujah. Not "He may... ", "He shall, He hath..." He may in the future, but He has now. "He has passed from death unto Life" and is alive right now.
Whoo, I wished I was twice my size; maybe I'd feel twice this good. I'd have to be twice my size to do it. O God, how can I ever thank You.


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