<TITLE>22. Par 275-293</TITLE>L-275 Jesus said, "Keep the commandments." Throwed it right back in his lap.
He said, "I've done this."

L-276 He said, "Keep the commandments." Then, he still didn't have Eternal Life, and he knowed he didn't. You can keep all the commandments, and you haven't got Eternal Life, yet.

L-277 So Jesus said, "Now if you want to do what's right, go sell what you got, and give it to the poor. Come, follow Me."

L-278 But that was too much for him. See? We find out that he looked and seen Who He was, but yet refused to take it. And his next look was in hell, looking a way up and seeing Lazarus in the bosoms of Abraham.

L-279   Pilate looked, one time, when they brought Him. He had never seen Him before. His hands tied; blood running out of His back; a crown of thorns on His head. Pilate looked, and was convinced.

L-280 Because, a horse come galloping down the street, and a rider jumped off, and run over and said, "Here's, the wife has sent you a letter."

L-281 And he looked at it, and she said, "Pilate, my beloved husband, have nothing to do with that just Man, for today I've suffered many things in a dream because of Him."

L-282 He trembled. His knees beat together. And he said, "If You are the Son of God, if You're the King, why don't You speak out? Are You the King of Israel?"
He said, "You have said it."
Said, "Tell us truth."

L-283 He said, "To this end I was born." And Pilate marveled. He...

L-284 All, everybody, was begging and crying at his feet. He said, "I have power to kill You, or I have power to release You."

L-285 He said, "You have power of nothing, 'less it be give to you of My Father." Whew!

L-286   Sir, he was convinced that That was more than a man. He was thoroughly convinced that It was more than a man. Certainly, he was. But (what?) his politics and popularity was too great. See, he turned Him down. His popularity was too great. The politics, his position in life, was too great, to accept this fanatic.

L-287 Wonder how many Pilates will be listening to this, that your position in some denomination will be too great, to accept the real Lord Jesus standing in the position that He is today.
The Roman soldier, at the cross, looked on Jesus.

L-288   After the earth had had a nervous prostration, shook till the rocks wrung out of the mountains. And the sun went down in the middle of the day, and turned dark. The stars didn't come out to give its light. And the earth burst forth with rocks and an earthquake. And the zig-zag lightning swept the skies; and ripped the temple veil from the top to the bottom. And, the people running and screaming, they didn't know what had taken place.

L-289 And that Roman soldier that helped nail Him there, had punched the sword through His heart, then he looked, but it was too late. He looked and believed, but it was too late for him to believe. What he had done had sealed his doom; he had run the spear through the Saviour's heart. It was too late.

L-290   I wonder how many Romans today has done the same thing, and will do the same thing. You might look, someday, but it might look too late. Many of today will come in that day and be the same way. They have known.

L-291 Brother Woods here; yesterday. Saying this just because it's in this Message. Down here at the Slider Company, a Roman Catholic sitting there. He went down to get some concrete for the church here, and, when he did, he told him where he wanted it for. And the Roman Catholic said, "Is that Brother Branham?"
"Yes"

L-292 He said, "I'll say one thing; when he prays, God answers." See?

L-293 Wonder then, knowing it, seeing the vindication that it's truly the Gospel, not me; any man representing Christ. It's the Word we're talking about, not man.


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