<TITLE>06. Par 45-53</TITLE>L-45   Now let's just break in upon them, I believe they might have been rejoicing, talking about the things that they had seen done that day. There had been great things had taken place. People had been healed, leprosy. And they was having a great time. And as they went along about their work in the church, or they... A church is not the building; it's the people makes the church. And they was rejoicing in what they had seen done. And they might have been discussing His messiahship, His claims; He claimed to be the Word, He claimed to be the Word and the message for that hour.

L-46 And the prophet, who had been the Word before there, introduced Him, and said, "My time is finished. I have fulfilled my part, the Word that I was supposed to fulfill. Now He is going to manifest the rest of the Word, from here out, so my time is over," John, so he had to get off the scene when Jesus come on the scene.

L-47 And when He come on the scene, He come just exactly, and doing just exactly, and acting just exactly the way the Messiah was supposed to act, what He was supposed to do. And that might have been their discussion as they talked.

L-48   Maybe some of them had testimony. One of them would say, "You know, I never had thought of--of it so much until I begin to read the Scriptures what Messiah was supposed to be, because He was to be that prophet. And then I understand that, another thing, when I seen Him break that bread and feed those people. Who could create, but God Himself? So that has to be Messiah." And, they, "No one can create but God. God is the only Creator there is. And here He took five little biscuits and two little fishes, and fed five thousand, and taken up seven baskets full, the pieces left over. When, nothing could do that but Jehovah, the same One that rained bread down out of the skies. That's the only One could do it. And here He is, known among us, in a humble form of a carpenter, an ordinary Man. Here is the Jehovah's that lived in the Heavens, no one could see Him; the invisible God is made visible here among us, for, we know Him, He does the same works that Jehovah did."

L-49 And He said to them, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. Messiah was supposed to be Jehovah, Emmanuel, 'God with us.' And if I don't do the works of Emmanuel, if I don't act like the Emmanuel, My works is not like the Emmanuel, then--then I'm not Emmanuel. But if you can't believe Me, just watch the works that I do. They testify Who I am." See?

L-50   And that might have been their discussion as they were talking. And then the subject might have come up after that, when... Maybe many of them could have testified. There was Andrew, he could have testified.

L-51 Peter could have said what Jesus said to him. "Why, call me by my name? Who could know my name except God? He called me what my name was. He told me who I was. He called my father's name, and the Man never had seen me. Why, it's got to be the Messiah. And we noticed."

L-52   Now we find out, then, that they might have discussed the attitudes of the people towards That. That might have been their next discussion. Jesus was sleeping all the time; went back to rest. Now let's just break in on the scene and watch them; the attitudes of the people. Some of them said...

L-53 Well, some of them believed. Some of them said, "A man never spoke like this before. For, what that Man says, God backs up what He says. And we know, by our--our Scripture, that if God vindicates this Man, what He says comes to pass, then we know that God is with that Man. And God has told us to fear that Man, because He is with Him. His Word is God's Word, so fear Him." And they--they said... Now, that's the reason they feared greatly after they seen Him make the winds and waves obey. They trembled because they knowed that was God. It had to be. God honored His Word. What He said, it happened, then they knew that was the Messiah.


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