<TITLE>07. Par 77-88</TITLE>L-77   Now we find, one time, Jesus speaking. I'd just like to watch one little quotation here I'd like to make. Jesus has a great crowd around Him, and it looked like there was too many, so watch what He said. "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life." Now what do you think that a medical doctor, or any intellectual person, would think when they heard of a Man that had a name of being an illegitimate child and a more like a renegade to the people of that day, stand up and make a--a quotation like that, "Except you eat My flesh and drink My Blood"?

L-78 Why, they would say, "That Man is a human vampire. Why, my! 'Drink a Man's Blood, and eat His flesh'? You congregation get away from such a crazy Man."

L-79 He never explained it. He never explained it. He didn't have to explain it. That's right. He just wanted to see what kind of faith they had.

L-80   See, you, if you believe, you believe, I don't care what anybody says. If I prayed for five thousand people tonight, and all five thousand died tonight, in the morning I'd still be praying for the sick. See? It's what God says, is what counts. It ain't what people does. See?

L-81 And, God, He--He said, "And except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you."

L-82 Well, my, that people, that intellectual group, why, why, they said, "Get away from that Man. He's mad. He's a wild man. Why, He's a human vampire, 'eat' that Man's body." Now, He never explained it.

L-83   Now He had seventy ordained preachers with Him. He thought He had a little too much crowd there, so the--the crowd walked away from Him. So He had the ordained ministers sitting there, that He sent them out, seventy of them. He said, "What will you say when you see the Son of man ascending up into Heaven from whence He came?" Now, He never explained it.

L-84 And them preachers said, "This man ascending up into Heaven from whence He came? Why, we know Him. We know His mother. We've been to the stable where He was born. We seen the cradle He was rocked in. We fish with Him. We're laying out here on the banks with Him. And this Son of man 'ascend up from whence He come'? He come from Bethlehem. Where is this, 'coming up'? That's too much for us." And they walked away from Him. He never explained it. He never.

L-85 He didn't have to explain anything. God don't have to explain nothing. He is God. He just does it, 'cause He promised it. He don't explain it.

L-86 Then His only twelve was left. And He turned around and looked at them, said, "I've choose twelve of you, and one of you is a devil." He said, "Do you want to go, too?"

L-87 Then Peter said those great words, "To whom would we go, Lord? For we are sure that Thou has the Word of Life." They had seen It so clearly a vindicated; no matter what the priests said, what anybody else said. They knew right there, that, that He had the Word of Life. Said, "You have the Word of Life."

L-88   And now we notice, no matter what the others done, how they walked away, those disciples were predestinated, they were ordained to Eternal Life. No, they couldn't explain It, they couldn't explain It no more than the rest of them could. But there was something in them, that--that representation in Heaven. A thought that God had of them before the foundation of the world, had manifested itself here, and they were connected with God and was sure that was God's promise vindicated, and nothing is going to change it from them. That's real, genuine Christianity.


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