<TITLE>06. Par 58-70</TITLE>L-58 So, therefore, any creed or anything that's not built on this Word of God, all the Word of God! Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word." Not just a Word here and a Word there, and a little thing here and there, and put It together; but "Every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God!" Man shall take every Word of the Bible! Put It together... It's already together; just read It and believe It, act upon It, God will honor It.

L-59 Now we find out that, Isaiah, when He looked. What did you see, Isaiah? He saw One was called, "Counsellor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father." That's what he looked.

L-60   If I'd call another man, Daniel, one time you had the opportunity to see Him. A great prophet, what did you see? He said, "I saw a Stone, hewed out of the mountain, without hands, and It rolled into the kingdoms of the world and broke them to pieces, and they blowed away like the chaff upon a summer's thrashing floor. And the Stone growed into a great mountain that covered all the earth." That's what he said about Him.

L-61 Therefore, He will rule the world, someday. People are struggling today for a world ruler; each nation wants their language, their--their thoughts; each denomination wants their groups over the other. But there is coming one, and that will be Jesus Christ. He is the Ruler of the universe; none less than God Himself.

L-62   Nebuchadnezzar, one day, had done an evil thing, he throwed three believing children into the fiery furnace. And when he opened the door to see how they were getting along in there, he saw the fourth Man on the inside of the furnace. And what did you see when you looked, Nebuchadnezzar? He said, "He looked like the Son of God." That's what he saw when he looked into a crime that he had done, there was One that looked like--like the Son of God.

L-63 Ezekiel took a look one day, he said, "I saw Him, too, and He was a Wheel in the middle of the wheel, turning, up in the middle of the air." That's what He looked like to Ezekiel.

L-64   John, the greatest of all prophets, he was the one that introduced Jesus. Jesus said he was "greater than any man had been born." Did you ever think why that was? All the rest of them spoke of Him, "The Word of the Lord comes to the prophet," that's the Bible said so, and in all the other prophets it come to them in visions. But when the Word come to John, It was flesh. Jesus was the Word. He is the Word. He always was the Word, but here is where the fullness of God "was made flesh and dwelt among us." When He come to him in the water, he was a prophet. And if the Word is made flesh, It's got to come to the prophet. The Word, wherever It is, It must come to a prophet, because a prophet is the one the Word comes to. And John was the prophet of the day.

L-65   And when the Word come to him, walked out in the water and said, "I want to be baptized."

L-66 And John said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee, and why comest Thou unto me?"

L-67 He said, "Suffer it to be so now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness."

L-68 Did you ever think why John said that? Why would John say that to Jesus? Why? Because it's... It was becoming to them. They were...

L-69 There was the--the prophet and the Word, and the Word had come to the prophet, now it was becoming to them that all righteousness must be fulfilled. What happened? Then John baptized Jesus. Because, John being a prophet and knowed the Word, the sacrifice must be washed before it's presented, and that's why John baptized Jesus.

L-70 John looked, and he saw. How did he know this was Jesus? He saw a dove, that had been told him by the Spirit of God. "And upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on, He is the One that will baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire."


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