<TITLE>12. Par 41-43</TITLE>L-41 You notice, in Abraham's sacrifice, He separated... When He made the confirmation, in the 16th chapter of Genesis, when He took those--the she-goat and the heifer and cut them apart, because the dispensations came from a lamb natural to the Lamb of God. But did you notice, the pigeon and turtledove He never separated? And always represented Divine healing, because when a leper or something was cleaned, they killed one bird, and poured the blood upon the other one, his wings. Went out crying, "Holy, holy to the Lord," sprinkling the earth for an atonement. And the birds was not separated because it was included in the atonement.
And if the old atonement had Divine healing in it, how much greater is this atonement, the new one? See? So there's not a question about it to God.

L-42 Now, here He was. He come to fulfill the Word of God. In order to fulfill the Word of God, He had to be the expression of God's Word. Now, watch what we get. We go back. We could take plenty of time, but we won't. We'll save time, if we possibly can.
Notice. We find His ministry starting here in Saint John, and we find out... We know His birth, and how that He came from the wilderness, and was baptized of John, and then went into the wilderness, and was tempted of the devil forty days, then came out of the wilderness. And immediately great signs and wonders begin to set in. Now, John bare record, saw the sign of the Messiah.

L-43 Now, John did not go to school to learn this, though his father was a priest. His father died when he was about nine years old. Instead of going down to the regular line of his father to be a priest, and so forth, and all the schools, his job was too important. He must be the forerunner of the Messiah. He was to be the one to introduce Him.
He was prophesied by Isaiah the prophet seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. "There will be a voice of one in the wilderness, crying." And also four hundred years before his birth, Malachi, the last prophet, said, "Behold, I send My messenger before My face to declare the way."
So he must not take any school's idea about it. He must go into the wilderness. And when he came back out... He stayed there until he was positive he knowed the sign. And here's what he said. "He that told me in the wilderness to go baptize with water, said, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining on, He's the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.'" He had to be positive.
And friends, if Christ was coming, and John had to be positive of what he was doing... Let this sink down deep in your heart. We've got to be positive of this. There's all kinds of things going on, but we must be positive. You don't get to come back and try it again. You do it now or never. This is your time.


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