<TITLE>13. Par 121-132</TITLE>L-121 Look at Jesus, at just twelve years old; a little boy about like this fellow sitting here asleep, with the braces on his legs. Jesus was a--a little boy, about twelve years old; no record where He ever went to school. But they went up to the Feast of the Passover, and when they... or at the Feast of Pentecost, rather. And they went up to the feast, Joseph and Mary, and all the congregation from down in the city. They went up to Jerusalem. And three-days journey, they presuming He was around with the people and with some of the kinfolks there. But they missed Him. They went to looking, and He wasn't there. They went back to Jerusalem and found Him in the temple, disputing with the priests, disputing with those man.

L-122   Notice here, not to hurt you Catholic people. But you who take Mary for a goddess or an intercessor, looky here. She give a testimony, watch her condemn her own testimony. She said, "Your father and I have sought You, with tears." Look what she did. She condemned her own testimony. She was calling Joseph His father.

L-123 But watch. Just a kid, just a little boy, but the Word always corrects the error. Said, "Know you not that I must be about My Father's business?" The Word spontaneously, see, corrected the error.

L-124 She said, "Your father and I," Joseph. Right before those priests, who she had already told that she was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and here she had testifies and identifies Joseph being His father, condemning her own testimony.

L-125   But watch the Word pick it up. He was the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Word picked it up, to correct the error.

L-126 "Know ye not that I must be about My Father's business?" If Joseph had been His father, he'd been down in the carpenter shop, in his business. But His Father's business was condemning those organizations and things, and He was condemning them up there, where He--where He belonged. He was having a--a time there, where they couldn't even understand how this boy would know such as that. But He was the Word. Never a man spoke like Him. What He said, He had the authority to make it work.
Those prophets did, too, 'cause they lived in the hour.

L-127 He was, He--He was all the prophets made in One, plus even that, 'cause He was the fulness of the Word. He was all the Word. The prophets was just the Word to that age, but He was the Word to all ages. He was God, Himself, coming down and manifested in a body of flesh. "The Word made flesh and dwelt among us."

L-128   Let's watch how He identified Himself, His first, after He come out of the wilderness, from being baptized with the Holy Spirit. Baptized, with John... Here is another little thought that you might catch just before you think of it.

L-129 Do you know the Bible says, "The Word comes to the prophet"? If there's a prophet in the land, the Word has to come to him.

L-130 Look at John, was a prophet, the first one they had had, see, and he was a Word prophet. And while he was standing there, prophesying, the Word came to him in the water. Jesus was the Word, walked right out in the water. And John said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee. Why comest Thou unto me?"

L-131 And He said, "Suffer that to be so, for thus it's becoming to us that we fulfil all righteousness." Why? Then John being a prophet, and Him being the Word, knowed that He was the Sacrifice, so the Sacrifice has to be washed before It's presented. So He baptized Jesus, washing the Word, before It was presented, you see. So he bap-... He said, "Suffer it to be so now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfil all righteousness."

L-132 Then when He suffered him, Jesus went straightway out of the water. And, lo, the heavens was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, descending down upon Him. And He went into the wilderness, was tempted for forty days, then came out.


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