<TITLE>14. Par 151-159</TITLE>L-151 He got into the room, and there they was, all lamenting and crying, and wailing, just like any persons would do. A fine little girl, a pastor's daughter, had died, and she was taken out of this world. And she probably been dead for hours, and then they had laid her out on the couch, and was ready to embalm her body, perhaps, and put her away, and in burial.

L-152   Then we find that Jesus walked in the house. They was all wailing. He says, "Give peace." He said, "She is not dead, but she is asleep."

L-153 Now could you imagine what they thought? "Why, this man we know, now. We understand that He's an illegitimate child. And we hear of His, all of His rashel predictions that He makes. And now we know that the priest is right, 'the man is crazy,' for we know that she is dead. The doctor pronounced her 'dead,' and there she lays. She is gone, and we know she is dead." They said, they laughed Him to scorn, in other words, made Him feel embarrassed, by criticizing Him.

L-154 But He had done said that she wasn't dead. That's all it takes. "She is asleep." No matter how much critics, He's going to prove His Word! He put them all out of the house, get all the unbelievers away. Took Peter, James, and John, the believers, three witnesses, and the father and mother, went in and took the daughter by the hand, and spoke in a language that called her soul back from somewhere out yonder in Eternity. And the girl lived.

L-155   What did He do? He proved His Word. He proved that what He said. She was not dead. She was asleep. Now we find out, doing this, realizing, and He proved something else there. Now He proved that He was God. He proved that He had foreknowledge. Watch what His Word said now. "She is not dead, but she is asleep." See, she wasn't dead, to begin with. She was asleep. Showed His foreknowledge. Now, there might have been a many of little maiden died that same morning, but this one wasn't dead. She was asleep, like Lazarus was. And He called her out of that sleep, because she wasn't dead.

L-156 "And he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die." Only those who are on the Lamb's Book of Life, that He redeemed when He died, that's who He'll call out of that sleep, at that day, those who are quickened by His power, that has that quickening power laying in them. Even as I said last night; even after Elisha had died, and his bones was laying in the grave, that quickening power was still on his bones.

L-157   Sure, He proved that Who He was. Now we find out again, likewise, He proved also, that, in Hebrews the 4th chapter and the 12th verse, He proved He was the Word of God. He certainly did. Notice what He did. Hebrews, 12, Hebrews 4:12 says that, "The Word of God is more powerful, quicker than a two-edged sword, and--and It also is a Discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart." Watch just a moment now.

L-158 When He first started His ministry, after He come out to show that He was the Word, when He come out of the wilderness from His temptation, there was a man named Peter, his name then was Simon. And he came to Jesus with his brother, Andrew. And as soon as he walked up into the Presence of Jesus Christ, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon. And your father's was Jonas. From henceforth you shall be called Peter." That proved that He was the Word, because the Word is a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. He was the Word.

L-159   Philip seen this happening. He took off around the mountain, was gone a day, and come back. And he brought with him a friend named Nathanael. And he said, "These things are really happening. Moses said 'the Lord our God shall raise up a Prophet' like him, and here the Man is. Why, He told Simon who he was, even who his father was, and we know that what He says is the truth. Because, God said it in the Word, and here it is proved that He was to do that, and that proves that that is the Messiah."


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