<TITLE>32. Par 346-360</TITLE>L-346 And as soon as that word 'Jesus' spoke, little John begin to leap, and shout, and jump around in his mother's womb.

L-347 She said, "Blessed be the Lord God! For whence comes the mother of my Lord? The mother of my Lord!" Oh, my! "Whence comes the mother of my Lord? For, as soon as your salutation come into my ears, my baby leaped in the womb, for joy."

L-348   No wonder he didn't want no seminary, something to indoctrinate him with something, another. He had an important job. He was a man of the wilderness, went out into the wilderness and waited. God told him out there, said, now, and reveal to him. Oh, there is your revelation again! "And I'll tell you Who He is. You're a prophet. The Word is to you. You know who you are. You've got to come." That answers a question from last Sunday. See? "You know who you are, John. Keep yourself quiet; don't say nothing. Go on out there. And when you see this One, there'll be a sign coming from Heaven, like a Light, a dove will come down. That'll be Him when you see Him."

L-349   That's the reason, when Jesus walked out in the water, John looked over and he seen that dove coming down, he said, "Behold the Lamb of God! There He is! He's the One that will take away the sin of the world."

L-350 Jesus walked right straight out in the water, to him. Them two eyes of John met them two eyes of Jesus. They were second cousins, by flesh. Mary and Elisabeth were first cousins. Their eyes met one another. There was God and His prophet, amen, standing there.

L-351 John said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee. Why come Thou to me?"

L-352 Jesus said, "Suffer it to be so now, but, remember, thus it behooveth us to fulfill all righteousness."

L-353   Why did John do it? Because He was the Sacrifice. John was a prophet, he knowed; and the Sacrifice has got to be washed before It's presented. Oh! Oh! And he suffered Him, and he baptized Him.

L-354 And when he did, lo, the Heavens opened, oh, my, and that dove come down upon Him, and a Voice said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." King James puts it, "in Whom I'm pleased to dwell." So it's just any way you want to turn it around, same thing, "dwell in," or... "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell," or, "to dwell in," either one you want to put it, same thing. All right.

L-355 We see then it was revealed to him. Others standing there didn't hear nothing about it. The Holy Ghost, alone, reveals it.

L-356   Same when He reveals Himself to Paul, another predestinated Seed.

L-357 There was Paul going around, he might have said, "If I get a hold of that bunch, I'll tear them to pieces, because I'm Doctor Saul. I come up under Gamaliel. I come from the Moody Bible..." or some other one, see. "I, I'm a scholar. I know what I'm talking about. I'll tear that bunch of holy rollers to pieces. And I tell you, great holy father, you just give me the permission to go down there, and I'll arrest every one of them noisemakers down there. All this Divine healing stuff, we'll stop it."
Put it in his pocket, said, "I'm on my road down."

L-358 And that day, my, about eleven o'clock in the day, a--a Light shone in his face, and he fell to the earth.

L-359   Why? He was a predestinated Seed. God said, "I have chose him. Yeah. And I'm going to show him what great things he'll suffer for My Name's sake. I'll send him to the Gentiles, and disgrace him in every way that they can be--be disgraced, but yet he'll bare My Name."

L-360 Paul went down, then, till he got all of his ecclesiastical stuff cut off of him, down at the backside of the desert, for three years and a half. Down there in Arabia, until he learned the Word, and the Word become he. And he become a prisoner; here he come back in chains of love! "All my seminary experience is gone! I'm a prisoner to Jesus Christ. Amen! Philemon, my brother, I'm a prisoner of Jesus Christ. I only can speak and say what He tells me."


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