<TITLE>04. Par 25-35</TITLE>L-25 What kind of a statement do you think that a medical doctor or a nurse, or any fine intellectual person would think of a statement like that, for a Man that had a ministry like He had? Why, he would say, "Eat the flesh? That's cannibal! To drink human blood? It's a vampire! In other words, He wants us to be cannibals and vampires." And the whole audience walked away from Him.

L-26   And there was a ministerial association with Him, of seventy, that had been chosen. And He turned to them, and He said, "What will you think when you see the Son of man ascending up from where He came from?" Now, He didn't explain that. He never explained how; Paul did that later on. He just said It. See? And then when this, He said, "What will you say," to these ministers, "when you see the Son of man ascending up from where He come from?"

L-27 No doubt them man said, "Now, just a moment. Oh, we eat with Him. We fish with Him. We sleep with Him. We--we know where He was born. We seen the cradle that He--He was rocked in. And how does this Man... This is a hard saying."

L-28 And the Bible said, "They didn't walk with Him anymore." They left Him.

L-29   Then He had twelve left. He had chose twelve, and one of them was a devil, He said. So He turned to them.
And there's no one could explain what He had just said. "How are they going to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood? And how did He come down, when He was born right here on earth?" See? They couldn't understand It.
And then He turned to the apostles, and He said, "Do you want to go also?"

L-30 And that's when Apostle Peter made that great statement, "Lord, to whom would we go?" See? "For we are satisfied. We know a surely that You, and You alone, have the Word of Life of this hour." See? "And we are satisfied of that." See, they could not explain It. They...
You can't explain faith. It's something that you believe, and it's so solid that there is nothing else will take its place.
Therefore, they knowed that the Word that was written for that age that they were living in, the Messiah-ic age, that He fit that place exactly. And what could they do to go back in them cold, formal churches that they had come out of? Said, "Where would we go to?" See? "We are fully persuaded that You have the Word of Life." See? And they--they couldn't explain It, but they believed It. See?

L-31   And Jesus said that to weed down His crowd, see, till He could get the group together. And out of all those people, they, only eleven of them then understood actually Who He was. They knowed that He was God, and God alone. Now, the...

L-32 My subject this morning is to reveal, or, unveil that God.

L-33 God has always, in every age, has hid behind a veil, all ages, but He's been God all the time. See? But He's kept Hisself hid from the world, and reveals Hisself to His Elected, like the apostles at that day. Now, that was God speaking in Christ.

L-34 Now, man has always, it's been the nature of man, he sought to see (physically) that God. He has always wanted to see It. Man has made creatures that look like Him. They think of a... The Indians worshiped the sun. And--and we find, in Africa, different forms of animals, and so forth. And up... the totem poles in Alaska, and--and different forms that they think this God is in. As Paul spoke there at Athens that time, on Mars' hill, and told them that they were superstitious concerning this unknown God, that, they knowed He was there but yet they didn't know Him.

L-35   And so we find even back as far as Job. Job knew that there was a God. He knew it. And there's not a--a--a human being, in their right mind, but what knows there has got to be Something somewhere. And, now, Job wanted to talk to Him.
And I want you to notice the form that God chose to talk to Job in. God was veiled when He talked to Job. He was veiled in a whirlwind, came down in a whirlwind. You believe that God still comes in a whirlwind can come where you see? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]


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