<TITLE>26. Par 273-283</TITLE>L-273   Jesus, rejected, after being the vindicated Son of God, said, "If I do not the works of My Father, don't believe Me." He was the Light of the day (He's still the Light!), stepped on the scene. And the people, as long as He could... bread and fishes and loaves, they followed Him. But when He begin to tell them the Truth of the Word, that separated them, they had their own traditions they held onto. It was contrary, yet you know He was exactly with the Scripture. But the blinded eyes of the world couldn't see It; neither do they now, neither have they in any age, I mean, as a whole. What happened? It looked like He was defeated.

L-274   You notice, from that very time, His popularity left Him. When? When He begin to tell them the Word. When He could go and have--and have healing services and campaigns, everybody wanted Him, "O Rabbi, come over here!" and, Rabbi, come here!" But when His Doctrine got started; "Oh, Your Teaching disturbs our people." Oh, goodness! "Oh, I can't have You in my church no more, Rabbi, because, why, You confuse our people, You're Teaching is so contrary to what we believe." It hasn't changed. See? It's not. Yeah. "Can't have You, Rabbi!" Yet Him being a-vindicated, proven by the Scriptures Who He was, yet they couldn't believe It.

L-275 Finally He went on till the last moment, when Satan thought "I've got Him," he crucified Him on the cross. Down, down, down, down, until finally they thought that they had Him, put Him in the grave. But that's when God stepped on the scene. Up from the grave He arose! Why?

L-276   The same thing, Paul, he said, "All... Demas has forsaken me. All men forsaken me for the Word." I don't believe Demas went to night clubs and things. But Demas wanted to go, Demas was a rich man. And he wanted to go with the popular group, and so he went off there where all the rest of them did. And then Paul said, "All men has forsaken me." Why? His ministry, he was coming to the capstone of it, coming down to the end.

L-277 His desire was to be a martyr because he had killed Stephen, he witnessed his death and sanctioned it. He wanted to die. When the... Agabus, that noted prophet, stood by him and told him not to go up to Jerusalem, he said, "I know not to go. But I'm not only willing to go, to go in chains and bound, to Jerusalem, but I'm ready to go and die for the Lord Jesus." What was it? He was sealing his ministry.

L-278   O Church of the living God, we could talk all night. How we going to seal our Message? How we going to do it? God, help us to take this Word, stand gallant. Let me die by the Word; live by the Word, die by the Word. Scatter the Light, for it shall be Light in the evening time. We're in that hour, friends. Let's believe It, as we bow our heads.

L-279 First, I'm apologizing for keeping you all this time, right at two hours, an hour and forty-five minutes, I think, exact. I hope that nothing has hurt. We're not to offend. That, if that's in our--if that's in our heart and soul, then we're wrong, ourselves, if we ministers just say those things, my brethren here, these Holy-Ghost-filled man. See?

L-280   When I got saved and I told my Baptist pastor that I had received the Holy Ghost, and all this stuff, these... and the Angel of the Lord told me what to do, he said, "You must have had a nightmare, Billy."
I said, "Doctor Davis, I saw an Angel."

L-281 He said, "Oh, nonsense!" Said, "That's--that's of the Devil." See? Oh, my, how it hurt me! He said, "You're going to preach to kings and potentates?"
I said, "That's what He said."
He said, "With a seventh-grade education?"
I said, "That's what He said."

L-282 He said, "Who do you think will listen? Going out to preach Divine healing in a day like this, and all the fine medical research and things?"
I said, "I can't help how many Goliaths stand there."
He said, "Who do you think will hear you?"

L-283 I said, "If God is sending me, there'll be somebody to hear me."


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