<TITLE>06. Par 52-63</TITLE>L-52 And John, he saw the Spirit, he heard the Voice. Nobody else heard It or saw It, just him. All the thousands standing there, nobody saw It but John. It was sent for him. "John bare record, seeing the Spirit of God descending, see, and a Voice from Heaven."

L-53 When Paul was stricken down by a Light that blinded him, none of the rest of them saw the Light. It was so real, to Paul, till It blinded his eyes.

L-54 The wise men followed the Star from Babylon, all the way down. And they kept time, by the stars. Crossed over every observatory, and not one saw It. It was showed to the wise men.

L-55 God chooses who He will choose, does what He wants to do. He is God. And He will never go contrary to His Word. Always with His Word, now.

L-56   And Simon might have said this, you know, while he was roaring... oaring across the... this lake, and Him asleep in the back of the boat. He said, "When I walked up in His Presence, and He said to me, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas,' that settled it, for me. I knowed then that that was truly the Messiah, because He told me exactly the truth, never seeing me."

L-57 Philip could have had the testimony of getting Nathanael, and He told him where he was at before he come. They could have talked about the woman at the well. They could have talked about blind Bartimaeus, who touched His garment by standing a hundred yards from Him, perhaps, and his--his faith in God touched Him. The woman who touched the border of His garment! All these things proved that He was Messiah. What a great time!

L-58   Now, then, they might have discussed the attitude of the people towards Him. Now we're... They're crossing the lake, all the time. Towards Him, some said, "Some believed. Some didn't believe."

L-59 That's the same as it is today. Some people believe It. No, you could, no matter how plain it would be vindicated, some won't believe It. And there is some of them so spiritual, that, the first little nod, they get It. And others can be pounded, day and night, and they never get It.

L-60   Let me stop a minute, on this, and explain something. Seeds that fall in the earth, if they are germitized, they grow when the sun strikes it, moisture condition. But if they're not germitized, the sun could shine on them, they'd just rot away, the same. There's nothing happen.

L-61 We are germitized. Our names are called, put on the Lamb's Book of Life, before the foundation of the world. No matter how religious we are, that has not one thing to do with it; sometimes it's against us.

L-62   I feel at home with such a fine brother as Brother Groomer here, and these other brothers here. I--I feel just to say this.

L-63 Notice Jesus. We know now He was Messiah. And when He come and showed Himself Messiah, upon religious people, Pharisees, Sadducees, all from priests from the lineage of Aaron, for hundreds times hundreds of years. Their great-great-great-great-great-great-great- way back, grandfathers, were priests, studying the Word, studying the prophets. And the prophets plainly spoke of this. But when Jesus come and performed that, they was as blind as a bat. Religious to the dot, smart, intelligent, intellectual as they could be, far beyond one of us today, trained in the Word, raised from a child. And when the real Truth splashed across in front of them, and that Light shone, they said, "This Man, we can't figure that out, so He must be a devil, Beelzebub. He's a great powerful mind. He can read the mind of the people." A telepathist, we would call it today. They didn't understand.


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