<TITLE>14. Par 144-158</TITLE>L-144   Now remember, quickly. They failed to see it. No, they didn't understand it, how it could be. And the promised Word was for their age. He was that promise fulfilled, and yet they fail to see it, a sure sign of a true prophet. Notice what He done. And they... Now notice. They went quickly...

L-145 He said, "You, being a stranger, and don't know that Jesus of Nazareth, a Prophet in deed, mighty before God and people? We believe and know He was a Prophet." Watch Him, as soon as they identified Him.

L-146 He kept asking, "What, these things that went on? What, what taken place?"

L-147 He said, "Jesus of Nazareth, a Prophet, mighty before God and man. And we believed He would be the One Who would bring deliverance to Israel."

L-148   And as soon as they acknowledged Him as a Prophet, watch, immediately He went to the Word. A--a real sign of a true prophet. A real prophet goes to the Word, always, because the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. See? And he goes to... And watch what He done. They told Him that they believed Him to be a Prophet. Now, it's behooving, becoming a prophet, to identify Himself with the Word, amen, 'cause the Word always comes to the prophet.

L-149 Old Dr. Davis is sitting here, look; which, I don't know whether he is or not. I think he's down here in Florida, somewhere, they told me. Dr. Davis, if you're here, he was the one ordained me in the Missionary Baptist church. We used to argue on the Scripture. And he said, that, "John the Baptist baptized Jesus, first... Or, Jesus baptized John, first, because John had never been baptized. And he was preaching baptism, and nobody else worthy to baptize him, so Jesus baptized John," said, well, "He suffered him." Well, I couldn't get that straight in my mind, how He did it. I couldn't make the Scripture.

L-150 One day when we was alone, and the Angel of the Lord was present, He revealed it to me.

L-151   See, now, look. Jesus was the Word; John was the prophet. There is two of the greatest on earth; God and His prophet. And the Word was God And it's always becoming, to the Word, to come to the prophet. And John was the prophet. And here comes the Word walking right out in the water, to the prophet. The Word come to the prophet, in the water. Amen. I feel religious. The Word absolutely comes to the prophet. And here He was, the Word in living form; and here was the prophet; standing in the water. And the Word come to the prophet. I can see their eyes as they meet one another.

L-152 John looked up, he saw the heavens open, that dove coming down like a fiery wings coming upon It. A Voice coming from It, saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell."

L-153   When John looked, he saw that Light over Him, whatever it was. First, when he walked to the bank, he said, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world."

L-154 He was so perfectly concerned, real belief, he said, "There is One standing among you, Whose shoes I'm not worthy to bear. He'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire." He knowed He had to come in his days, because He was the forerunner of Him. He said, "There's One among you now, Who you don't know. But I'll know Him, one of these days, when I see that sign identify Him."
Then Jesus walked out, one day.

L-155 He said, "There's the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world."

L-156 Jesus walked, the Word, right out to the prophet, in the water. John looked up at Him, in humility. He said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee. Why comest Thou unto me?"

L-157   Watch this now, the Word and the prophet, together. See, the prophet will have to know the Word, because the Word is manifested to the prophet. Now here was his prophesy fulfilled, he would "introduce the Messiah." And here is the prophet and the Word, together.

L-158 And he said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee. And why comest Thou to me?"


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