<TITLE>30. Par 319-324</TITLE>L-319 And there Jesus had been stood against the evil, stood against those organizations, stood against those Pharisees; and become weak and submitted Himself unto death, and died like a sinner on the Cross, bearing our sins. The very Psalms, the very prophets that they believed in, had quoted hundreds of years before, the very Words that He said at Calvary, and they failed to see it. Their great eccle...
"My God," said David, "my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Psalms 22, "All my bones, they stare at Me, not one of them is broke. They wag their head and say, 'He trusted in others... And He--He saved others, Himself He can't save.'" And all the things that the prophets had said was right there. And Jesus, dying, holding that Word, submitted Himself. God, Emmanuel, become so weak that He submitted Himself to the death, and to the grave, and His soul to hell. Weakness... But out of that complete surrender came forth on that Easter morning, winding Its way from the lowest.
He was the Highest and become the Lowest. He come to the lowest people, went to the lowest city. And the littlest man in the town had to look down on Him. Went from there to death, and from death to the grave, and from grave to hell; to the lowest that could be got, to the lowest hell that could be thought of, He went to it.
But then, from there, God begin to raise Him up. Through Paradise, from there to the--to the tomb, and from the tomb to glory, and so high that He has to look down to see heaven: exalted His thrones in the heaven.

L-323 That little brokenhearted mother, not knowing this, standing there, "They have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where." She was... The weakest hour she ever had. Her--her Lord was gone. They had crucified Him, yet He let this... crucify Him in the shame of hanging Him up there naked before those people; and speared Him in the side, and bleeding, and hear Him crying on the Cross, and see the earth shake, and the whole heavens recognized He was dead. Took him down, stiff and cold, and laid Him in the grave. She thought, "The last respects I can do to my darling Child is come and embalm Him, and now they've took Him away." And she was standing there weeping, that little mother standing there weeping, sobbing. Oh, the weakest moment.

L-324 "Why weepest thou, woman?" was the Voice behind her.
She thought it was the caretaker at the graveyard, said, "Oh, they've took away..." She couldn't even turn around; she was so weak. She said, "I've been up now all these three days and nights. I stood and watched the crucifixion. I watched my own Darling that I know was the Son of God. I know He was. And yet they... (Looking the other way, and Him behind.) And they took Him away and they crucified Him. I seen Him raise the dead from the grave. I seen Him do miracles after miracles. And I know the Holy Spirit... God knows my heart; I was innocent of anything, and the Holy Spirit give me that Baby without knowing a man. How I know that it was true. And I seen Him disgraced and strike His clothes from Him, and hang Him up there and stripe Him down. He died the horriblest death. I love Him; I don't care what done to Him. I still want to bury Him; I want--I want to give Him the right kind of burial, and they've took Him away. I've been days after days; my heart's broken. I'm just standing in this condition. I don't know what they've done with my Lord."
He said, "Mary." And then she was strong. Amen. "Go tell My disciples I'll meet them in Galilee." Oh, my.
In their weakness they were made strong. When you're weak, that's when you become strong.


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