<TITLE>30. Par -</TITLE>L-49-5 Christ's death settled the question. When that bee of death stung Him and anchored that stinger... You know, a bee--a insect that has a stinger, if it ever anchors that stinger into--deep enough, when it pulls away, it pulls the stinger out of it. Death always had a stinger.
Death always had a stinger. And one day when that--going up Calvary, and the bumping of them rocks, the Blood splashing upon the rocks... When it hit the dirt on Calvary, going to Golgotha, the back of that cross was dragging out the Bloody footprints of that little, frail body going, marching along there, them whipping and mashing Him as He went up the hill; but He had a absolute. He knew where He stood, because the Word of God said through David, "I'll not leave My holy One to see corruption; neither will I leave His soul in hell."
He knew corruption set in seventy-two hours. He said, "Destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up again in three days." He had an absolute.
There He went up the hill with gobs of mockery spit of drunken soldiers, that put a rag around His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, "If you're a prophet, tell us who hit you." There He was going up the hill in shame and disgrace to be--His clothes stripped from Him, despising the shame, hanging on the cross before the people naked; dying in Roman disgrace under government capital punishment, a Man that had done nothing.

L-50-1 A little story one time said Mary Magdalene run out and said, "What has He done? Healed your sick, raised the dead, and brought deliverance to those that would--in captive. What has He done?"
And a priest smacked her in the mouth till the blood flew out, and said, "Would you listen to her or your high priest?" Oh, that denominational world, it's a curse of all of it. That's it. There it is.

L-50-3 And they took Him on. But as He went up the hill dragging... The devil had always doubted it, Him being what He was. Said, "If thou be the Son of God, turn these stones into bread. You claim you can do miracles. If you are the Son of God, command these stones to be turned to bread."
That same old devil lives today. That's right, "If you are a Divine healer, here's old John So-and-so setting here on the corner; I know he's crippled; heal him." Don't you know it's that same old devil?
Jesus said, "I only do..." Look. He went through the pool of Bethesda where thousands laid there, lame, blind, halt, and withered, and went to a man that could walk. He could get around; he might've had prostate trouble. Whatever it was, it was retarded. He had it thirty-eight years. He said, "When I'm coming to the pool, someone steps ahead of me." He could walk. Left all them laying there, and went to that very one, and healed him. Why?
He said He knew he'd been in that shape. Then they said to Him--questioned Him when they found Him (St. John 5); He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." There's His absolute. That's still the absolute.


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