<TITLE>04. Par 20-35</TITLE>L-20   I remember my old Baptist teacher told me, said, "You know what happened?" Said, "Jesus baptized John."
I said, "I don't think so."

L-21 He said, "Sure, John was never baptized; he come preaching, baptizing, nobody was worthy to baptize him. Jesus baptized him."
I said, "I don't know."

L-22 And one day while in study, the Holy Spirit revealed it like this, see. Watch, He walked out in the water; he said, "Why comest Thou unto me? I have need to be baptized of Thee." Jesus said, "Suffer that to be so," watch, "but thus it is becoming to us (behooving us) that we fulfill all righteousness." John, being a prophet, knowing the Word! The Sacrifice He was, must be washed before presented; then He was baptized, John baptized Him, because, "It's becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness." The Word came to the prophet, in the water.

L-23   And then when He was baptized, still the people... And the Holy Spirit came down, not everybody saw It. John saw It.

L-24 The Angel of the Lord could be right here tonight, and maybe one person see It, and no one else.

L-25 That Light, that Star that come over every observatory, where the--the wise men followed; no observatory knows anything about it, no one else saw It, at all, but those wise men, because it was for them to see It. They saw It. It was real to them.

L-26 When the Light, the Pillar of Fire, smote Paul down, on the road to Damascus, he recognized that he was in the Presence of God. Now, that Hebrew would have never called any other spirit, "Lord," besides he knowed That was the same Pillar of Fire that led his people out of the wilderness. He said, "Lord, Who are You?"
"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" He said, "I am Jesus."

L-27   Jesus said, "I come from God, and I return to God." He was that Fire that was in the burning bush, that led Moses through the wilderness, and He returned back to That.

L-28 And now here he was, on the road down to Damascus, was stricken down. And all the man was with him, they never saw that Pillar of Fire. And it was so--so real to Paul till it put his eyes out, and he had to be led down to the street called Straight, in Damascus. He was blind.

L-29 Ananias, a prophet down there, saw in a vision, went and laid hands on him and he received the Holy Ghost, and the scales fell from his eyes and he could see again. It was so real to him till it put his eyes out, and yet none of the rest of them recognized It being there, could see It.

L-30 So--so is it tonight! There is somebody sitting right there can bring God on the scene, when the other will know nothing about It. Recognizing God!

L-31   And Jesus, when He was here on earth, and had fully performed the sign that the Bible said that He would do, but they didn't recognize it because it wasn't according to their tradition. For that age, He wasn't to come and do what Moses did. He was to come and be born of a virgin. And He, and according to Deuteronomy 18:15, He was to be a Prophet. And exactly He did those works and signs.

L-32 The Jews always sought signs. They was taught to never to depend on intellectual speeches; the Jews knowed better than that. The Greeks taught that. But not intellectual speeches, but upon signs. "Show us a sign." These people, one said, "Rabbi, or Master, show us a sign." They wanted to know. And He had already showed them the sign, and they wanted a different kind of sign, but He could only do the sign of that age.

L-33 So does He today, this pouring out of the Holy Ghost is the sign of His appearing even in this age, as He promised.

L-34 They want a sign, and He had give them the Scriptural sign, but they wanted a different sign.

L-35   That's where that so many people today is going to be confused. You know, the Rapture might take place, and just think of the sadness of it! Let me go back to where Jesus, or...


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