<TITLE>04. Par 24-35</TITLE>L-24 If we believe the whole Thing, there would be a spring of joy in our souls, because we are raised with Him in the likeness of His resurrection, now sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, with all principalities and powers and darkness under our feet. We have a right, with the Blood of Jesus Christ, our Token, that we are a purchased of God. That, God has paid our redemption, through Jesus Christ, and we have a right to hold that Token over anything that we ask, and receive it. God said so! That settles it. If we could just believe all the Scriptures!

L-25   But the thing of it was, the sad part, many people that knew Him and loved Him, did not recognize that He had risen from the dead.

L-26 So is it today! Many people, who believe and even teach that He rose from the dead, still doesn't recognize It. They certainly cannot comprehend. And it's too much of a--a phenomena. It's too unusual. The unusual things is where God is, if it's according to His promise.

L-27 Many loved Him, and knew it not. It was just absolutely too unusual for them to believe what those witnesses that come from the tomb and said, "We saw a company of Angels, that said, 'He has raised from the dead.'" "Oh, well, we..." See, if they had just looked into the Scripture; He promised it, that He would do it.

L-28 And just like at the Pharisees and religious teachers of His day, if they had only looked into the Scriptures, like He said to. "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They that testify of Me," that tell Who He is.

L-29   And if those disciples on that day had just a looked into the Scripture, they would have found in the Scripture that He promised to raise up again. And God promised to raise Him up, and He did. Yet, His promised Word was written that He would do it to them. The Word said that He would raise up.

L-30 He had promised it, but yet they were sad and all beat out, and everything. They thought they had lost everything they had, and everything had failed. And it was the darkest hour that, I guess, they had ever seen. They had had hopes in Him, and believed in Him, and seen His great manifestation of miracles and signs and wonders, and all the vindication of the Messiah. And then to see Him stand there and die, and have spit put upon His face, and, when, He could discern the thoughts that was in the hearts of the people.

L-31 But if I make this with a--a worldly expression, forgive it. But, "when the--the chips are down," that's when you still believe.

L-32   When they put a rag around His face, those drunken soldiers, and put a rag around His face, and took a stick and hit Him on the head, said, "Now, we understand that You're a prophet. If You are a prophet," and they passed that stick one to the other, and said, "tell us who hit You. We'll believe it."

L-33 See, looked like that He--He--He had got caught in a trap. And they thought, "Well, if they'd ever say anything to--to Him, He'd just smite them blind. He would smite them dead, if they'd say anything." See, that's not always God's purpose in doing things. See?

L-34 When He was on the cross, and Caiaphas and the--the priest all said, "If Thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Come down off the cross, we'll believe You." See, they just couldn't understand how God could ever go to the cross and die. But, that's the reason God was made flesh, so He could die.

L-35 The Pharisees paid Him the greatest compliment He ever had, when they said others He could not... "Others He did save, Hisself He cannot save." Certainly, that was a compliment. If He saved Hisself, He could not save others. He had to give Hisself.


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