<TITLE>02. Par 10-17</TITLE>L-10 Pardon, if this sounds sacrilegious, and I wouldn't mean it that way, at all. But it's just like a jigsaw puzzle, you know. We used to get the old jigsaw puzzles all cut up--up, and then we'd sit down and study how to put it together. And then we'd have to have something laying over on the side, the picture of what we were trying to place together, to make the jigsaw puzzle come out right. If you didn't, you'd--you'd never get it done.

L-11 And now that's the way the Scripture is. It's cut up like that, to be hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent; see, they're like the Pharisees, smart scholars. And Jesus thanked God that (It) He had hid That from their eyes, and will reveal It to babes such as will learn.

L-12   Now if you want your example, to lay aside your pattern, to see what the Scripture goes together with, just lay Jesus over here and go to watching Him, and placed it in the Bible. You got the whole thing come out right, 'cause it is the revelation of Jesus Christ. The--the New Testament and Old, both, all speak of Jesus, see, Jesus Christ the Son of God, 'cause He is (the) this Book of Redemption. He was the Word, and He is the Word, and that's bound to be Him, you see. So this is the whole Book of Redemption, which is Jesus Christ, fitly put together by God; with the promises of redemption and healing, and everything, for the human being. See? Do you get that now? This Book is Jesus Christ, put together by God. See? And He come as a human being and redeemed us, and every promise is in Him, and for you, for He is the Redeemer.

L-13   Let us turn tonight in the Old Testament, to get what we wish to make our context from, as we read from Isaiah, the 6th chapter of the Book of the prophet Isaiah.

L-14 I like Isaiah's writings. He was a great prophet. Did you ever know that Isaiah wrote the entire Bible, in like a prelude to It? He did. Isaiah starts out in the creation, in the middle of the Book come John the Baptist, and the last in the Millennium. So he... There is sixty-six Books of the Bible, and sixty-six chapters of Isaiah, so it's just certainly a foreshadow of the entire Bible.

L-15   Now let us read from the 6th chapter.
In the year that... Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high... lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
And above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD God of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him, that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sins are purged.
Also I heard the voice of God... the voice of the Lord, saying, Who shall I send, and whom shall... or who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

L-16 I wish to take a text, if we should call it that, on the subject of Influence. Influence is a great thing. We are told of, Scripture, that, "We are written epistles, and read of all men."

L-17   And we, as Christians, should always watch what we do and what say, that we're perfectly honest to every man. And you, if you can't be honest with your fellow man, you certainly won't be honest with God. So how we serve God, is, we serve each other. As honest as I would be with you, that's as honest as I'll be with God. And that's the same way with you to me. We must be honest with each other in all of our dealings.


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