<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 It must've been Philip... Philip was kind of the outside guard, seemingly. They met him first before they got in to the other apostles. Say, like Jesus setting somewhere, and there was John leaning on His bosom, Peter, representing faith and love, was closest to Jesus. So Philip probably brought this courier to--to, let's say Peter. Peter brought him on into the Presence of Jesus.
And He was tired. He'd been preaching all day, and perhaps His voice kind of husky--husk with the soreness and dust from the day, of the people tramping on the ground and the dust coming up, and His strength depleted, as He must've stood and talked to the people about the Word of God. He was looking out upon them and seeing how that they were hungering and thirsting, would explain to them how God brought about all of His great works.

L-21 Oh, I would've loved to have been there to listen to that. No doubt, I believe that every person here would've longed to be there, to hear what He had to say, listen to His doctrine, what His doctrine was, how He expressed Hisself, and what type of a voice He had; and look upon His face and to--to see Him performing His works, and discerning the thoughts of the people, and telling them of different things and diseases they had, and pronouncing them healed. I would've loved to have been there. Oh, my. I would like to have seen that.

L-22 And perhaps maybe He'd just got through with a sermon of... You know, Jesus' first doctrine. Did you ever know what it was? "Ye must be born again." That was His first doctrine, "Ye must be born again."
So He might've went back to Genesis and began, and said, "In the beginning, God said, 'Let there be.' And there was. And He said, 'Let everything that I have spoken bring forth of its kind.' And it did." Then He might've brought something like this, saying, "Well, now that it brings forth... But yet, you can take these seed and you can mix them together, and you can get what's called a--a hybrid product, beautiful, very nice, but it isn't the original. You let it go, it'll go back to its kind again."

L-23 And a hybrid product can never stand the roughness and the treatment that the original can stand. Why, an old longhorn would starve one of your Herefords to death out on the prairie in the wintertime. She can make her own way like a deer. But your hybrid Hereford, your hybrid Brahma-Angus, it'd die out there. You have to baby them.
And He... If He was standing today, I believe He'd say something like it to us. Not only have we hybreeded fruit, animals, but we've hybrid religion: has to be babied and petted. It's not the original. We try to take the Word of God and breed It into something else, and breed It over here, and It becomes a bunch of delicate babies that we have to baby, and they can't take the real Word. He might've been saying something like that.
Then He might've said, "You see, really your lives are hybrid. Father said, 'Don't touch the tree.' But Satan said, 'It won't hurt you.' So therefore, your life now is in a hybrid condition." And that life cannot go back to itself, because--breed back.


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