<TITLE>08. Par 39-43</TITLE>L-39 The Guide isn't going to take one over this way, and one over that way, and send one east and the other one west. See, He's going to keep you together. And if we'll just let the Holy Ghost keep us together, we'll be one. If--if we just don't let the devil pull you off on the wrong road, we'll be one heart, one mind, one accord, by one Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Guide of God that'll guide us to all Truth. That's right. But you got to follow your Guide. Yes, sir.

L-40 Look at Nicodemus; he needed a Guide, yet he was a smart man. He was a teacher about eighty years old. He was of the Pharisees, or--or the Sanhedrin Courts, the Council, Ministerial Association. He was one of their greatest men, a teacher in Israel, a master at it. Think, a master teacher, yes, he knowed the laws, but when it come to being born again, he needed a Guide. He was hungering for it. He knowed there had to be something different. His expression to Christ that night proved it. It proved also the--the feeling of the rest of them, but none of them had the very--the very audacity that he had. There was none of them that could come up there and do what he did.
You know, people condemn Nicodemus by coming by night. He got there. He arrived. I know some people won't even start day or night. But he got there, and he needed a Guide, and he said, "Master, we (from the Sanhedrin Court), we know that You're a Teacher come from God." Why did he know it? He was a-vindicated. See, he wanted to know what this new birth meant, and he went to the right One, because God had vindicated that This was His Guide: Jesus. Look what he said, "Master, we know that Thou art a Teacher comes from God, 'cause no man can do the things that You do, 'less God be with him."

L-41 It was a vindication there, that there was a living God inside of Him. What He testified, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." In other words, God showed Him what to do, and He went and just acted it out; He didn't do anything until God told Him to do it. Amen. That's the real frank facts of it. If we'd just move and wait till the Spirit moved us to do it... That's it. And then be so completely lost in Christ that He don't have to shove you around like He does me, but the first little nod of His head, you're ready and nothing's going to stop you, because you know that it's the will of God.

L-42 He needed a Guide. And He was a vindicated Guide. He could be led by this Guide because he knowed this Guide was inspired of God. He knowed that the traditions that he had served, maybe by the Pharisees, Sadducees, and whatevermore, he'd served those creeds all along and seen nothing happen. But here comes a Man on the scene, saying that He is a promised Messiah of the Bible. Then He turns around and does the very works of God. Jesus said, "If I don't do the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if you can't believe Me, believe the very works that I do, for they testify of Me."

L-43 Then no wonder Nicodemus could say, "Master, we know You're a Teacher come from God, for no man can do the things that You do without God being with Him." See, he needed a Guide, though he was a master of the thing. He was a master of his church. He had dignity, and he had--he had prominent places; and he was a great man; no doubt, respects from all the people through the country. But when it come to being born again, he needed a Guide. So do we, yeah, we needed a Guide.


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