<TITLE>16. Par 125-136</TITLE>L-125 And Jesus matched every prophecy; every design of Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus of the New. He matched everything.
Let me say this with godly fear and respects, but love, but sincerity of knowing where I'm standing. The Message of this hour has matched everything the Bible spoke of this hour. Now, if you got some dirty clothes, turn them in. Uh-huh. Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb?

L-126   Notice, "bearing His reproach," 'cause He was the vindicated Word. As then, so is it now, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:12 and 13. We find Hebrews... 8, 13:8, also. "Bearing His shame," of the Gospel.

L-127 Bearing His Name! He said, "I came in My Father's Name." What is the Name of the Father? He came in His Father's Name. Said, "I came in My Father's Name and you received Me not." Well? What is the Father's Name? I guess you ought to know. See?
Bearing the reproach of the Word. It was always carried out of their camps. They turned It out. You'll be laughed at, and made fun of.

L-128   And, today, where I once started across the nation... Not speaking about myself; please don't think this is a personal. But, my time is gone, and I got about ten pages here. You can see what's left here, see, see, all right, of notes. But, listen. First started out...

L-129 Did you notice Jesus when He first started? "Oh, the young Rabbi. Oh, He was a wonderful Man! Come over our way. Come preach to us."

L-130 But one day He set down to them, and He said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you."

L-131 What do you think the doctors and intellectuals of the crowd thought? "This Man is a vampire." See? "He wants you to drink human blood. That's too much for us. Get away Him. The--the priests said He was crazy; I believe it." And the Bible said they walked away.

L-132   Then He had seventy ordained preachers. And He said, "I can't have them."
So He looked around to them, He said, "What will you say when you see the Son of man ascending up into Heaven from whence He come?" Now, He never explained these things. He just let them alone. See?

L-133 And they said, "Son of man? What? We eat with the Man. We fish with Him. We lay on the banks with Him. We seen the cradle He was rocked in. We know His mother. We know His brother. Who can receive a thing like This?"
And the Bible said, "They walked with Him no more."

L-134   Then He turned around to Peter and the rest of them, said, "I chose twelve, you twelve." Now, from the thousands, He's down to twelve. He said, "I chose twelve. Then, one of you is the devil. I knowed it, from the beginning." He said, "Now do you want to go with them?"
He didn't have to baby and pet, and, "I'll make you a deacon if you'll join my church." See? Ain't no axes to grind. He never even explained it. Neither could the disciples explained it.
But, you remember, He just told them, "I knew you before the foundation of the world. I ordained you to receive joy with Me." See? There it was, "before the foundation of the world," predestinated.

L-135   Those apostles stood there just as stern. They couldn't explain how they was going to eat His flesh and drink His Blood. They couldn't understand how He ever come down, when He's been right there with them all the time. He couldn't explain it. The people couldn't explain it. Nobody could explain it.
But Peter made those notable words. No wonder He give him the keys. He said, "Lord, who would we go to? We are persuaded. We know that You, and You alone, are the vindication of the promised Word today. We know that Thou alone has the Word of Life. We can't explain those things, but we believe It, anyhow."

L-136   Little Martha said, "My brother is dead. He is laying in the grave. He's rotten; he's stinking. Lord, if You would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." Oh, my!


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