<TITLE>05. Par 51-61</TITLE>L-51 "He said, "Yes, and it's also written..." He withstood Satan, upon the Word; because that's what He was, the Word.

L-52 In the Bible, 1st John, Saint John the 1st chapter, said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-53   It's always a connection with the spoken Word of God, God's promise for the day. And when it comes, it's so unusual till people can hardly grasp it, because we're so sewed into--to forms and ideas of our own, that it's hard for us to grasp what's Truth.

L-54 I think much of that would apply to--to Joseph, in the days of--of the--the... of Mary, in her maternity. She, she was to be mother. And Joseph loved her, and he--he wanted to believe. He was a righteous man, a good man, and he wanted to believe that story that Mary was telling him, but still there was a question, that, "Now, she's a good woman." No doubt Mary had explained to him the visit of Gabriel to her. And he was a just man, in the lineage of David.

L-55 And yet, her, it looked like that she was trying to use him for a shield, to take off her reproach. Because, if she was engaged to him, and to be found in this condition was the same as adultery (Deuteronomy tells us so), and would be stoned for the act. And it looked like that she was using him for a shield.

L-56   And the man, a good man, a just man, the Bible said he was a just man. But her case was so unusual that he could not grasp it. He would look in her lovely face, and the sincerity and honesty that she would tell her story in. And no doubt but he'd go to his home, or his carpenter shop, say, "I--I just can't see how she would tell me wrong, but the case is so unusual."

L-57 If he would have only searched the Sciptures, that, "a virgin is to conceive"! See, it was so unusual to him, because it was out of the line of his thinking, but she was exactly in the Scripture.

L-58 And so is it today, brethren, that the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and His promised Word of this hour is so unusual, good man stumble over It. It's too unusual. They say the--the dead was raised up, the blind see, the deaf hear, the Holy Spirit discerns the thoughts, foretells things that's coming to pass, never failed it one time. Oh, they--they can't, can't grasp it. It's so unusual, so they--they say, "Well, it's a telepathy, or It's a evil spirit," just like they did in that day. The unusualness of the Word of God!

L-59   But when a man is borned in the world, for a--a believer, he becomes a Nazarite when he separates himself from anything that's contrary to the Word. A total separation! Jesus said, "I come to separate a man from his wife, tear up a family. And he that won't take up his cross, and follow Me, is not worthy to be called Mine." A separation, from everything, anything; from church, from--from a community, from a belief, or from family, or anything that would stand between you and believing the entire Word of God. If your soul will not punctuate every promise for this hour, with an "amen," there is something wrong somewhere. You need a separation.

L-60   So Jesus was the Word made flesh, and He was completely separated from sinners, unbelievers, that the Word Itself flowed completely, and--and thoroughly flew through Him, that He said, "I do nothing until I see the Father do it first." They was asking, questioning Him about things. He said, "Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." And, watch, everything that He said was perfect. Just, He had not to ask about it, think about it; it was perfect. And His perfect Truth always separated the Truth from error.

L-61   Even as I'll quote back again, again, His mother said, "Thy father and I," before those priests that she had already testify it was a virgin-born Son. But in the moments of her grief...


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