<TITLE>14. Par 163-179</TITLE>L-163 See, those things could happen, and it'll be a past time and you won't know it. You can't afford to take that kind of a chance. Don't do it, friends. Come in while you can. Don't be influenced by some great big building, some great big organization, some great high-polished scholar. Let the Word of God influence you. That's exactly what caused those apostles. When they seen that Word made manifest, that influenced them, "We are sure!"

L-164   Might stand quoting again. Jesus, with great crowds of thousands a following Him, He said, "That's too many. Look, look, something strange here, there is few are called... Yeah, many are called, few are chosen."

L-165 So then He seen the great congregations, He said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, drink His Blood, you have no Life in you." He never explained it.

L-166 I wonder if He would say that in Beaumont, today, no matter how popular He was, what do you think doctors, and fine cultured people, and scientists, would say? "That man is a vampire. Well, He wants you to drink His Blood? Well, what kind of a... You are going off on a tantrum."

L-167 Jesus never explained it. He wanted to shake them parasites off of Him. That's right. Then they all got up and left.

L-168   Then He looked around to those apostles which was not ordained to Life, but He had chosen them. They wasn't ordained. He said, "What will you say when you see the Son of man ascending up into Heaven from whence He come?" Oh, that was a choker. What did He...

L-169 Them--them ministers said, "Ascend up into Heaven? Well, this Man was born right here in Galilee. He was born in Nazareth. We know his mother, His--His brothers. We know the cradle he was rocked in. We seen His baby clothes. We speak to His mother. And then say this Man come, go back up where He come from? He come from Nazareth. What does He say, 'Heaven'?"

L-170 He never explained it. Too many parasites yet. "They got up, and they walked with Him no more." That's what the Bible said.

L-171   Then He turned around and said, "I... You all want to go, too?" to the twelve.

L-172 Remember, they couldn't explain it, but they knowed it. They knowed He was, so they said to Him. He had influenced them by His a vindicated signs from God. Watch.
He said, "Do you want to go, also?" to the twelve.

L-173 Peter said, "Lord, who would we go to? For we are sure..." Now, that, look, study that. What is it? "We know what the Word says for today. We know what the Messiah is supposed to do if He comes today. We have seen this thing being met of God."

L-174 He said it later on, at Pentecost. He said, "Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you, by the things that He is supposed to do. And you've taken the Prince of Life and crucified Him, and--and God raised Him up, which you're witnesses of it."
Notice here, see, he said, "Where would we go?"

L-175 Jesus said, "I chose twelve of you, and one of you is the devil."

L-176 And there's only eleven standing there, out of a thousands times thousands. Eleven standing there. Oh, my! Influenced! Sure.

L-177   This little woman, when she was influenced, she went into action. She had to do something about it. She had to tell somebody else.

L-178 And every real true soul that strikes Christ, you got to tell somebody about It.

L-179 Peter, when he took Him at His Word, that night on the sea, saw Him out there, had been... or that day, it was. They had been fishing all night, and they hadn't caught nothing, seined back and forth. That's a discouraged time, if anybody is a fisherman. Seined all night, and he was a fisherman, too. His father was a fisherman. He had been on that lake all of his life, and his parents and his grandparents come from that lake. And he knowed when the moon was right, and which way the wind was blowing, and all the signs. And he fished for a living. So he had fished all night, and had taken nothing.


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