<TITLE>12. Par 115-132</TITLE>L-115 He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See? See, they didn't understand It. He was shaking them parasites off of Him.

L-116 Today we have to beg and plead, and pat and beg, and persuade and promise Christians, to come to church, "If they come to church, we'll do so-and-so."

L-117   Jesus, when He was on earth, He had too many with Him. He looked around and seen the congregation, He wanted to get rid of them, He said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you."

L-118 Could you imagine a doctor sitting out there? "Why," said, "this Man wants us to be a human vampire. Drink His Blood? Nonsense! All you people walk away and leave that crazy Man alone." They walked away.

L-119 He never explained It. He didn't have to explain It. He shakes your faith sometime to see that you'll do. And He's doing the same thing in this day, yes, let it seem spooky to you a little bit, to see where you stand, whether you really believe.

L-120 Remember, them disciples, foreordained by God, never moved. They couldn't explain It, either, but they didn't want to move. Then He comes again, He said...
All that congregation walked away, thousands.

L-121   He said to the seventy sitting there, His ministers He had ordained to go out and preach before Him, He said, "I'll give them a shake and see where they're at." So He said, "Well, what will you say when you see the Son of man ascending up into Heaven from whence He come?"

L-122 "The Son of man ascending into Heaven? We fish with Him, we lay on the river banks with Him. We eat with Him. We seen the manger He was born in. We know His mother, His brothers. And this Son of man ascending up from where He come? He come from Nazareth! This is a hard saying." They walked away, too. They said, "We can't see This." You see? What happened? (Never moved them disciples. They couldn't explain It.) All of them walked away. He never explained It. He didn't have to.

L-123   Today we got hotbed plants, called Christians, somebody you have to spray and baby and humor, "And will you give me fellowship, will you cooperate, will you do this." Oh, you bunch of hotbed plants! We need some genuine Christianity, borned of the Spirit of God. And that'll take no cooperation, no nothing else, they don't want nothing.

L-124 Jesus turned, looked at them disciples, said, "Will you go, too? Do you want to go, also?" He said, "I've chose twelve of you, and one of you is a devil. Why don't you go, also?"

L-125 Then Peter said those memorial words, "Lord, where could we go? We are persuaded, we know that You are the identified Fountain of Life. You have the Word, and It only. We are persuaded."
This little woman standing there. Said, "Bring Me a drink."

L-126   She said, "It's not customary, we got segregation, we don't have no such a thing here."

L-127 He let her know right quick that there's no difference between the Jew or whatever it was. He was God. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have a husband."

L-128 He said, "You've told the truth. You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not yours."

L-129 Now watch that woman. Something happened, that little predestinated Seed down in her heart!

L-130 When He said That to those Pharisees, look at them, they just blacked out what they professed. They professed to be Christians, they professed to be followers, they professed to love Him. But when the Truth came, It blacked them out.

L-131 But when this come, It brought to Life, It took the blackness out and made it all white. Said, "Where..."

L-132 She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. Now, we haven't had one for four hundred years, see. I perceive that You are a Prophet. Now, we know that when the Messiah cometh, His identification will be that kind of a characteristic, He'll tell us these things."
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."


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