<TITLE>23. Par 161-164</TITLE>L-161   Now, I'm not just exactly talking to this audience. This is taped, you see, and It goes all over the world. Do you understand, people of the world, that one Word, one Word, not one sentence, not one paragraph, one Word, that's all Eve disbelieved. Brought... God proved it. "But then if you keep every Word, ye shall live." They doubted one Word, brought death to the human race. But man shall not live by bread alone, for his physical strength, but by every Word, every Word just the way It's written. The Bible says, "It is of no private interpretation." No man has anywhere, any at all, to try to anything interpret the Word of God. God is His Own interpreter.

L-162 When He promised, He said, "Let there be light," and there was light. He said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. See, whatever God says, God proves it.

L-163   No matter how much you try to think the physical resurrection couldn't be, and them people's back there, and just dust of the earth, and past dust now, they're just into the acids and gases that their body was made out of. Their soul is still living. God said, "I'll raise it up." Job said, "Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I'll see God." See, no matter, every Word has got to be kept, and man shall live by that Word. He raised a man from the dead, after being dead four days, to prove that He was the resurrection and the Life. When a man had been dead four days and stinking, his nose had already fell in in four days. That's right. The first thing that falls in, in a human being, is the nose, drops in on the corpse, get's slick and drops in. Then the skin, the bugs, you... Put you in a sealed-up coffin, whatever it might be, but yet the skin worms don't have to come from the ground, they're in you. Did you notice Job said, "Though my--my skin worms destroys me." Not the worms of the earth, there wouldn't be any. The worms is in you, ready to destroy you, death working in your mortal body. But when you got Christ, then Life is working in your mortal body, to raise you up again. See? He raised a man from the dead, after being dead four days, "he stinketh," to prove when He said, "I am the resurrection and Life." Now, who could say that but God, see, "I am the resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." You believe that? And He raised that man up, to prove that His Word was right. Right!

L-164   Notice, He was the Word. Hebrews 4:12, if you want to put this down. Hebrews 4:12, it said, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart." Is that right? "A discerner." To prove that He was the Word, what did He do? Peter came to Him, his name was Simon. And he came to Jesus, and He said... set down out there, and Jesus, as soon as he comes in, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." Uneducated, no degree behind him, he had nothing but just a common fisherman, no education, the Bible said he was "ignorant and unlearned," but he became the bishop of the church of--of Jerusalem. Why? Why? Jesus told him who he was, what his name was, and what his father's name was. And he knew that that was the Word, because the Bible said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like unto Me," and that had to be the prophet, and there was no prophets promised after Malachi to the Messiah, four hundred years without a prophet. And here was a man standing there, confirming, or proving His Word, to this man was predestinated to Life, said, "Your name is Simon, from hence... You're the son of Jonas, from henceforth you'll be called 'Peter.'" Think of it! Who did He prove it to? Why didn't He prove that Word to... Why didn't He prove that Word to Caiaphas? He was God, He knew Caiaphas would never believe it. But this man was ordained to Life, he knew It right then.


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