<TITLE>18. Par 119-127</TITLE>L-119   Here Christ is represented here in this, both King and Warrior, because He cut His way through. He broke the enemy's lines of death. He broke the enemy's lines, that, well, we might have Eternal Life, the Waters of Eternal Life. He come through even to death, and took death upon Himself, and died the death, and come back that we might have Eternal Life. He's both King and Warrior. We didn't conquer, it's already conquered! We never conquered death, He conquered death for us! He's our David of this day. He conquered death. Bethlehem's Bread and Water.

L-120   Bethlehem was the center. You historians know that, that it was the center. It was a great wheat country in there, from the irrigation and stuff. They could have great wheat crops. And it's also the best water. It was the bread center and the water center of Palestine.

L-121 And today, no matter how many organizations we got, how many other so-called brethren, and, which, they may be, still Christ is the believer's Bethlehem. He is the place of Bread and Water. Methodist, that's good for you; that's good for you Baptists, you Pentecostals, the rest of you. It's all one place, that's Bethlehem. It's where Bread and Water of Life comes from. Yeah.

L-122   Here He is our Bread, God's Bread and Water for us. He's the center, the only place that you can come and get It, is from Him. God's House, in the person of Jesus Christ, our Bethlehem, Bread and Waters of Eternal Life. And He is the Word made flesh. Here is the Word, the Bread and Water of Life. Hebrews 13:8 says, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." That makes Him our Bethlehem, our place of Bread and Water, the only place of Eternal Life.

L-123   Notice David, in getting the waters, he never drank it. He said, "God forbid. This is the blood of these men that jeopardized their lives," to go out and to bring him that drink. Watch! He poured it upon the ground, for a drink-offering to God. Amen! Men and brethren, rise your faith just a minute now. He refused to drink it, himself. He poured it upon the ground, for a drink-offering to--to God.

L-124 How fitting that is to John 3:16, when God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Jesus, the Prince of Life, come here, didn't have to die. He conquered death Himself, and poured His Own Life's Blood out upon the ground, amen, as an offering for our sin. He's our smitten Rock. Upon the ground, His precious God-given Blood.

L-125   I heard someone say the other night in a message, said that they come to... I believe it was Billy Graham, last night, was watching him as he said that he went to Israel and he went into Palestine, and he said, "I come to believe your people," something on that order. And I certainly admired him as he appeared on that worldly program last night. Many of you turned the man down for doing that. But, look here, he got before the whole nation then. And he never took it back, he stood just exactly on what he believed. And I certainly admire him for that. And he said, "I went to Israel and I told them, 'I worship one of your Children,' in other words, like this."

L-126 I thought, "Billy, that's wonderful. I'd like to see that God-given power that you have to stand there in the midst of all that Hollywood glamour and give a testimony by Jesus Christ, but He was not a Jew." Jesus was God, not a Jew. Remember, the blood cell comes from the male sex. And He was not no man, Jew or Gentile, He was God created in flesh. We're not saved by the blood of a Jew or blood of a Gentile, we're saved by the Blood of God. He was God, nothing less. He wasn't Jew nor Gentile. God's creative Blood in Him, we become... If He was a Jew or a Gentile, we're all lost. He was God in flesh. Right.

L-127   I don't worship a Jew, I worship God when I worship Jesus Christ. I don't worship some fiction or some kind of a historical something. I worship Jesus Christ, the Presence of Jesus Christ right now, which is His Word that's manifested in this age.


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