<TITLE>25. Par 182-188</TITLE>L-182 She looked around. Look what a--what a sinful shape she was in. But, see, He couldn't--He couldn't get that priest, because the priest was an educated scholar, a theologian in the Word, but no representation in Heaven, see, wasn't in God's thinking at all. But this woman was. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." That's just all He wanted her to see. See? Said, "We believe that You are, I believe You're a prophet. Now, we know. We don't understand about the prophets now, because it's real late, we know that there's a Messiah coming. And when that Messiah comes, He's going to be the Word. See, He's going to know the secrets of the heart, He's going to do the same thing that--that You did there." Said, "You must be one of His prophets, to forerun Him or something."
He said, "I am He."

L-183   What would He do? He was proving His Word, proving His position, proving what He was. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. And God is the Word. All right. He calmed the winds and the waves, to prove Isaiah's prophecy, "He shall be called 'The mighty God, the everlasting Father.'" See? He also multiplied bread and fishes, this virgin-born Son. What was it? To prove the Word. All Scripture has to be fulfilled. He proved the Word, by saying He was Jehovah made manifest. He was the beginning of the creation of God. God in creation, God with a little part of the creation here that God was living in Himself, He was the beginning of that creation of God, "From Him begets many sons." Note, He also multiplied the fishes. He is the Word and the proof of the Word.

L-184   Now listen close, as we come down towards the end. That day, that I read about a few minutes ago, now, when He come to the house of Jairus. He walked in, when he got there. Now, remember, Jairus was a--a priest, a borderline believer. He wanted to believe Jesus, but he hated to turn lose his church, 'cause they had said, "Anybody that believes on Him is going to be put out of the church." Now listen closely now, in closing, give me very close attention. Watch this. I believe that Jesus knew that when He crossed the sea, 'cause He knew all things. And when He crossed the sea, stopped down there, and here come this little priest down. His girl got real sick, the doctors had give her up, said "She's laying at the point of death." Now, time come for action.

L-185   Maybe that's to you this morning, time has come for you to act. See? Maybe you're real sick. Maybe you're convinced that you're wrong. It might. God forces the issue, time comes for action.

L-186 Now closely. And he come, he didn't care what the rest of them said, right out publicly, and come and fell down by Jesus' feet. What a step for--for an educated scholar, to come to One that we don't have record of ever going to school. How a man come, was suppose to be in all the theology, come to a Man that was suppose to be "a reprobate, a wild man, crazy man, out of His mind, didn't even have his right mind." Pardon the expression, but "He's just a common crank of the day," everybody thought Him that. As we'd say today, in the street expression, "Nut!" As I preached the other day on the nut and the bolt, you know. See, that's what He was to the public, just a common everyday... Say, "Why, You're out of your mind! You're crazy! You're a madman!" Now, here was a man who had all the scholarships, coming to the One that was supposed to be out of His mind. He was forced to it.

L-187   Watch her now. It's going to sting just a little bit, but it'll be good for you. See, sometimes a shock wakes you up.

L-188 Notice, He come and went in to the side of this little, dead girl, that died probably hours before, and they had done laid her out, and put the embalming fluid on her, and put it around the couch. That's the way they did in them days, just packed them off and put them in a hole, on a board. She laid out on the couch, the flowers around her.


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