<TITLE>15. Par 101-105</TITLE>L-101 Jacob, another... He had a--been away from home for a long time, and he had a call to go home to see his people. And he was on his road, true to his call, true to his leading. He had things fine over there, but God begin to deal with him to go home. And on his road home, was throwed between two tight places. His wife and children on this side, and his hated brother, Esau, coming here with an army to meet him. And he stood at the little brook, brook Peniel there, and there he stood. And what a condition. Esau, hating him, coming with an army to meet him, and here was his wife, two wives and children all on this side of the brook, and he was caught in a tight place. Why? Because he'd have stayed in his own land it'd been all right. But he had a call, the Word of God had called him to his homeland. Hallelujah. God bless a man. He got a change too. Yes, sir.

L-102 Jesus, true to the Father's Word, "I do only that which the Father says. It's written, 'The man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" Jesus, forever true to that Word, it come a time when He lost all the friends He had. Every one of them forsaken Him and went away: all of them. And the people saw Him mocked, scoffed, lost confidence in Him. "How could a man that could speak to a dead man in a grave and raise him up, how could a man that could foretell events to the mark and never had--never fail, and set in the courts with His face bleeding from plucks of beard, and the gaumiest drunken spit from the soldiers running down His face, with a rag on His head, and hitting Him on the head with a stick, and saying, "Prophesy and tell us who hit you; we'll believe it"?
Well, the disciples just walked away, said, "Aw..."

L-103 See, they so quickly forget what God did. How Moses said at the Red Sea, when he stood there and said, "God has done ten outstanding miracles, are you still so delinquent that you don't know that He's still God?" He went down there and he smote the lands; he--he put a curse on the lands. He brought frogs, fleas, flies, everything, and a--a blast that killed all the firstborn, and the death angel passed through the land, and yet those people didn't want to follow him at the Red Sea. How quickly, as soon as your popularity... When they seen this great shining spears of a hundred thousand men coming like that, or maybe, yeah, maybe a million men coming, and the roar of the chariots and the dust a-flying, they just give up and fell back, "And, Moses, we ought to have died back there." See? And God said He let them die in the wilderness for unbelief. "Moses, your ministry's washed up; that's all. You ain't no more." See, they don't understand. They don't get it.

L-104 And now the same thing was when Jesus, the young Rabbi, or Teacher, or Prophet of Galilee, when He was doing all those miracles and things, "How could He ever stand and put up with such a thing as that? How could He let a man bind Him with chains, when He could break the seal off of a grave and raise a dead man out of eternity? How could He do it, when He could speak to a widow's dead son and rise him to live again; and Lazarus, dead and rotten in the grave, and bring him out? How could He stand, and say, 'I'm the Resurrection and Life; He that believeth in Me though he were dead yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.' And stand and be bound with fetters and spit in the face, and not open His mouth"? The disciples, "He's lost His ministry." Yeah, that's the way it goes. God, this poor world...

L-105 Even His church, the twelve that He'd delighted in and told them everything, and loved them, they turned their back upon Him. Only one stood by Him; that was the man John. Right at an hour when everything was gone, and all hopes was gone, there he was bound, and took up there and mocked and spit, and put His back to the... Not knowing that that fulfilled the Scriptures.


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