<TITLE>06. Par 53-63</TITLE>L-53 But God still has a Urim Thummim, and that's the Word. If--if a prophet prophesies, or a dreamer dreams a dream, and is contrary to that Word, I don't care how real it sounds, forget it. That's God's Urim Thummim. That's it. And That has to answer back, to be true. That's, God interpreted His Own Word.

L-54   So, God had no prophets in the land, in that day, so God spoke to Joseph in the secondarily way. Showing, that, if there isn't anything present that should bring it forth, God can work through anything, anything that He has promised. See? He could work a dream. If there was no prophet, then He could work a dream.

L-55 So no matter what our little gifts are, God can speak to us in any way He wants to, but it has to be with the Word. See? It has to be according to the Word.

L-56 Now, we find out that his dream was according to the Word, because Isaiah said, "A virgin shall conceive," and it was. His dream was according to the Word, and this was the one that had conceived. And then when the--the Spirit of the Lord, the Angel of the Lord, appeared to him, in this dream, and said, "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost." Well, that settled it then.

L-57 He was a just man. He wanted to believe it. He wanted to believe it, but it was so unusual to him.

L-58 And if a man wants to believe anything, and--and the Truth is before him, God will make some way to vindicate that, to prove it's the Truth. God is obligated to do it, 'cause that's what he saved him for, is those who are ordained to Life.

L-59   Now, we find that that unusual thing was--was the thing that--that they couldn't get. And this resurrection was unusual.

L-60 They, and, yet, if they would have noticed it, it was His promised Word. He had told them, said, "The Son of man goes up to Jerusalem, and He'll suffer many things of the Gentiles, be delivered into their hands and be crucified, be buried; and will rise, the third day." See? He said, also, "As Jonah laid in the belly of a whale, three days and nights, so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth, three days and nights." David, one of their prophets, prophesied, said, "I'll not leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer My Holy One to see corruption." See? And all the prophets spoke of Him.

L-61 And looked like that these disciples, yet, looked like they would have, they would have recognized it, and should have knowed this. But, you see, it was withheld from them. And the promised Word to them, and yet they didn't recognize It. See? It was fulfilled, exactly what He said would happen, what the Old Testament said would happen. It was perfectly fulfilled, and yet they didn't understand it.

L-62   Notice, as they went now, two of them, Cleopas and his friend was on their road to Emmaus. And it was Sunday morning. So they was on their road over there, talking. They was going along the road, real sad. My, they were really let down with something, looked like a veil.

L-63 And God let's things happen like that. He does that, purposely, just to--just to test you. Now let me get this before you, straight, so that you'll understand that every son that comes to God has got to be child-trained. He's got to be tested; every son. If you're never tested, you're not a son. If you can't stand the chastisement of God, then you're illegitimate, and not a child of God. You claim God is your Father, you say, "Oh, I can't believe." Well, that just shows that God is not your Father; see, you would--you would get It. Now notice, this testing, God tests every one of His children. All that come to Him must first be tested, tried, proved.


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