<TITLE>07. Par 63-73</TITLE>L-63   Some people in that day, maybe their discussion was something like this. "You know, I spoke to a bunch of people down there today, when we... He turned that fish back, multiplied the loaves and the fishes. I was talking to some of them, and they said, 'That could be nothing else but Jehovah, for Jehovah was the One Who rained the bread out of heavens, to the children of Israel.' And they said, 'Never a man spake like this. Why, this Man has got to be the Messiah, because we know Messiah is a Prophet. And, whatever He says, the Word of God is with Him. And whatever He says, it has to happen. And this Man is that Messiah, because, whatever He says, it happens.'" Amen! I like that.

L-64 That's the reason I got such confidence in This, because This is what He said, and it's going to happen. That's right. He, He said. This is His Word. Whatever He says, it will happen, "All heavens and earth will pass away but My Word shall not."

L-65   And then some of them took the negative side. They, the unbelievers, they said, "This Man is only a fortuneteller. Now, this Man can do nothing. We know that He is only a--a fortuneteller."

L-66 Now, they knowed He had a mysterious life, because He could look right into the heart of people and tell them exactly what they were doing, what they had done, what was their troubles, and what would happen. And it never failed. It happened exactly that way. And that can only be God.

L-67 Now no... soothsayer or a fortuneteller can come along and guess a little bit and make you a half-way something. That's the devil. Anybody knows that. So you didn't see a soothsayer or a fortuneteller out there making the Word of God manifest, no indeedy, they don't do that. They're off somewhere taking up an offering somewhere, to--to--to deceive you. That's right. And they live any kind of a life.
This Man proved that He was Messiah.

L-68 You see, the two spirits are so close together that it will deceive the very elected if it was possible. But if they're elected, it won't deceive them. See? But it's so close together, and especially in these last days, Jesus promised it would be, the two spirits. And how this, the other side, way off on both sides here plumb out of reach.

L-69   Where the battle is, is right up there with Satan. Not somebody who kisses the babies, and--and buries the dead, and--and carries a penknife; but somebody with a two-handed sword, right up in the front of the battle. That's the one, see. That's the thing that counts. That's where the heat of the battle is on. That's where the enemy stands.

L-70 And way back, well, they don't notice it. See, you don't get no reproach. There is nothing come, just, "Doctor So-and-so, we're sure glad to see you, our reverend, brother, Doctor So-and-so Holy Divine Father." See? Oh, my!
But when you're up there, "That old Beelzebub, that devil, that hypocrite, He is nothing but the devil." Starts a fuss every time. Yes, sir. See?

L-71 There is where He was standing. And they knowed by that, there was that Word vindicated, proven that it was.

L-72   And so it, you know, it might have been the young John that hadn't had his--his heart so scarred with so much theology, he must have said something like this, "Think of it! Right here in the ship, this One that is identified by Jehovah's Word, to be Jehovah's Servant, in Whom He is pleased, is right here in the ship with us. What a secured feeling!"

L-73 Oh, if we tonight could only catch that vision! The very Jehovah, that made the heavens and earth, is right in this little vessel of ours, while we're sailing life's solemn main. For, the Holy Ghost is Jehovah, in spirit form, in you. See? God, the Holy Spirit, is God Himself in you. Jesus said, "At that day you'll know that I am in the Father, the Father in Me, I in... and you in Me." Oh! Oh, my!


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