<TITLE>15. Par 143-152</TITLE>L-143   They should have known He was the God of all creation, that even could make. If He made those, that air to be, He made this earth to be, He made the water to be; the Creator laying there, and showed that He had power over it all. And they believed that, but forgot about Him being in the ship. Because He wasn't there patting them on the back, all the time, saying, "Now go ahead, boys, it's fixing to happen right out here. Now if it does happen, just remember, I'm standing right here by you. Here it comes right now, boys, let's look and see. Now, just a few minutes now." Oh, no, He don't do that. He tests every son and daughter that comes to Him, see if we'll believe Him. Yes, sir. He made it, wouldn't they obey Him?

L-144 Let us remember also, He made our bodies, they have to obey Him, also. And they wouldn't obey Him? This little...

L-145   I called you a lump of Texas and Louisiana dust. That's what you are, mud. You was raised off the ground out there, and that's where you're going back. You got just sixteen elements in you, a little moisture, and a little petroleum, a little potash, and a little calcium, and some cosmic light. And that's about what you are, twisted up together, and there you go. Dirt of Louisiana, that's all you are. But, remember, Something made you this. And the very One that made you this, come to live in this with you, that He might make you something different. Oh, my! Oh, how we ought to look upon that! Remember, He promised that though this little clod of dirt go back into the... This clod that's walking around with the life in it, when the life leaves, it's right back dust again.

L-146   But what did He say in His Word? "I'll raise it up again at the last days." Amen! "I'll raise it up." He promised it; after the body has perished, after even the dust is broke out, and it goes back to the gases of the earth. Yet, as I said the other night, "You can't annihilate nothing, man can't." There is no annihilation. Man can't annihilate anything. It's only God can do that. And remember, He will, though it be a spoonful of ashes, He said, "I'll raise it up again at the last day." That dirt will have to obey His commandment, because He created it. If the wind and the wave obey Him, so does the dirt obey Him. Amen.
Wake up! He is with us. All obeys Him.

L-147   After the--the disciples found themselves at the end of the road, it must have dawned on some of them, that the Creator was with them. Might have done, so we find out that they went and woke Him up, and, for He was with them all the time.

L-148 And they seen His Scriptural Word being vindicated. So have we. And we've not... When we call Jesus, it wasn't hard. Didn't have to go say, "Oh, Master, wake up, wake up! Wake up! Oh, Master, wake up, wake up!" No, no.

L-149 They just, "Master!"
Said, "Here am I."
"Carest Thou not that we perish?"
He said, "Oh, where is your faith, you of little faith?"

L-150 That's it, forgetting He is with us; calling Jesus on the scene, to act. People today said, "If I could know for sure that That was Him, if I could just be sure!"

L-151   How could they be sure, how was the disciples sure of it? Now listen. Not because He was an educated man. As far as we know, He wasn't. He only had the wisdom of God. But the worldly education, I don't... We don't have no record of Him ever going to school. But some great priest or some great renown person? No. No, we have no record of anything like that. Just a common Man. But how could they know? Now listen close now, don't miss this. How could they rest assured, "We are sure that Thou art that Christ"? How could they? Because they seen the promised Word vindicated; in other words, made manifest, make known. The living Word of promise was made alive, projected right through that body, and they knowed that God was in Him.

L-152   Peter said, "You men of Israel, Judaea, Jesus of Nazareth was a Man approved of God, among you, by the things that God did by Him."


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