<TITLE>14. Par 134-144</TITLE>L-134 What did he do? His revelation then was prophecy for today. It was the Voice coming forth, wrote in the Bible, to be vindicated today again. Hallelujah! It's the Voice being vindicated again, what He wrote, because he was God's prophet, revealing. The sign was speaking of something.

L-135   And we notice now that, Jesus, when He came on the scene, notice, He was the prophesied Word. He had a ministry to fulfil. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure, He had a ministry, notice, to be fulfilled, what was written of Him. Said that, the other night as I spoke, to Cleopas and them, "O fools, and slow of heart to believe the Word of God. Don't you know that Christ should suffer these things? Didn't all the prophets speak that He should do this, and then enter into His glory?" He has to fulfil everything that He come. He come to heal, that it might be fulfilled. He did this, that it might be fulfilled. Everything he done was to be fulfilling, because He had to be the Voice of that Scripture. But before He done it, He went forth with a healing ministry, healing the sick. Everybody wanted to see the sign. Sure, they believed the healing, but the Voice changed it.
One day, when He said, "I and the Father are one."

L-136   That, that was too much for them. "You make Yourself God, being a man." When the--the sign, they believed it, but when they heard a Voice behind it, a ministry that followed that sign, they didn't get it. That's when trouble set in.

L-137 Remember, He chose twelve. He said, He "chose them before the foundation of the world." He said, "I've chose twelve, and one of them is the devil." Paul had to take that place, to be the chosen one.

L-138   And notice, and when He did, one day He begin to speak to the people, and He said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his Blood, there is no Life." What would doctors say about that? Now, He never explained it. He never said any...

L-139 He just come for so many. Them that He foreknew, He come. He, He said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all the Father has given Me, they will understand It, they'll come. See? See, they'll come. They'll understand It, the one the Father has given Me, whose names is on the Book of Life." He come to redeem them.

L-140   Now we notice that, in that--in that great hour, He said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, drink His Blood."

L-141 Could you imagine what people thought? "Is that Man out of His mind? Does He want us all to turn cannibal? And now perhaps He'll go out somewhere and kill Himself, and we're supposed to eat His flesh and drink His Blood?" See, they never understood it.

L-142 He told Nicodemus, said, "If I tell you earthly things, and you don't understand it, how you going to understand Heavenly things, if I tell you." See? So, we find out they didn't understand it. So, the congregation dwindled away.

L-143 So then He said, again, "When you see the Son of man ascending up from whence He came."

L-144   Then the seventy ministers, the whole association, said, "What is the matter with this Man? The Son of man ascending up? And here we eat with Him, sleep with Him, fish with Him, out in the mountains with Him, laid out on the deserts with Him, around the creek banks with Him, and then and go up; seen the cradle He was rocked in, talked to His mother, knowed Joseph, he was supposed to be His father. We know all these things. And then He said, 'The Son of man is going up from whence He come.' Oh, how can that be?" See? But He was the Word. They failed to see that He was the Word.


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