<TITLE>14. Par 47-49</TITLE>L-47 Now, remember. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Is that right? All right. "Not Me," said Jesus, "doeth the works: but My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." Now, if you're putting Scriptures down, Saint John 5:19, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise." Now, remember, not what He hears the Father saying, but what He sees the Father doing.
Therefore, Jesus never did nothing until God showed Him by a vision what to do first. If He didn't, the Scripture's wrong. Saint John 5:19 said, "Verily, I say unto you (that means absolutely), I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise; for the Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." In other words, He just acted out in drama what God, the Father, showed Him to do, because God was in Christ.
Now, Matthew 3, it said, "This is My beloved Son," when He was coming down, a voice speaking from that, God, that was coming down like a dove. John bare record seeing it. And a voice come from it, saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom, in Whom I am pleased to dwell." And if I was going to make it so you'd understand it better, that the early translators in King James... If you get the original Greek, it reads like this: "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." But you see, it's the same thing. "In whom I'm pleased to dwell." See? "I am pleased to dwell in My Son." Then He became Emmanuel, God with us.

L-48 Now, now, in--now, Saint John, I read from it: Saint John 12:20. Now, let's go back to Saint John, and start, and just stay in Saint John tonight, showing what the Scriptures are in Saint John about Him. Now, we'll see if we can find out what He was tonight. Tomorrow night we'll go a little deeper in it, and the next night, just keep going.
Notice now. Saint John, let's... We read the 12th chapter. Let's go back and read the 1st chapter now. Said now, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now, can you get it? "In the beginning was the Word."
Now, what is a word? "A word" is "a thought expressed." You have to think it before you say it. See? And "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And if the Word ever was God, it's still God. See it? "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Saint John the 1st chapter; "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." The Word of God was made flesh among us in Christ Jesus. You believe that? He was the Word of God made flesh. Now.

L-49 And Jesus said in Saint John the 1st chapter, also in the 10th chapter and the 37th verse He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me." In other words, what the Father had expressed that He was, if He didn't do that, then don't believe Him. That's only sensible. See?
And in Saint John 5:39, said, "Search the Scriptures; for in Them you think you have Eternal Life: and They are They that testify of me." In other words, He was the living Word. He was God's Word made manifest. Oh, how I like to--to get into that: God's Word made manifest, in other words, made known: God's Word made known. In other words, He was the One that God lived in to make His Word known.
Christ expressed what the Word talked. Amen. There you are. Christ was the expression of the Word that was wrote. Christ expressed it. No wonder He said to those Pharisees, religious leaders of His day, He said, "You hypocrites," said, "if the sun sets clear, you say it's going to be pretty tomorrow. If it's red and lowering, you say it'd be foul weather." Said, "You can discern the face of the skies; but the sign of the time you cannot discern. For if you had known Me, you would've known My day." See?
They had religion, oh, my, plenty of it. But they failed to see Him as the Messiah, because...


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