<TITLE>09. Par 74-86</TITLE>L-74   Others were curious, and saying, "This must be the Messiah." One of them said, "It could be one of the prophets." They didn't know what to think. But what was it? It was God fulfilling Isaiah 40, where He said, "Behold..." what He would do in the last days, how He would send His servant and what he would do.

L-75 Then we find, a few weeks after that, that man being so positive of his message, till he said, "There is One standing in among you, Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and Fire, as I have baptized with water."

L-76   One day an ordinary, young Man, about thirty years old, walked down and was baptized. And when this Man come, there was such an attraction by the prophet, the prophet act strange that day. The congregation couldn't help from watching the action of that prophet when he was debating with the priests across the river.

L-77 They said, "God built this altar. God told us to do this. Moses is the prophet. We believe Moses. The sacrifice will never be done away with."

L-78 I can hear John answer back, said, "Have not you read in the Scripture what Daniel the prophet said, 'The daily sacrifice will be done away with'? And that hour has arrived! Have not you read what Isaiah said in the 40th chapter, 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord'? There is two prophecies for me. And another thing, did not you recognize our prophet four hundred years ago, Malachi, when he spoke in the 3rd chapter and said, 'Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way'? Don't you know this fulfills prophecy?" Prophecy was being fulfilled!

L-79   And about that time the prophet turned and said, "Behold, there comes the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!" Now what's the attraction? It's changed from the prophet to his prophecy.

L-80 Now notice what comes to pass. Here comes an ordinary Man, known of no one, a carpenter's son, come walking out in the water. When John, the great prophet, said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee. Why comest Thou to me?"

L-81 He said, "Suffer that to be so. But, as a prophet and the Word, it behooves us to fulfill all righteousness."

L-82 So he understood the Sacrifice had to be washed before presented, and he baptized Him.

L-83   Now there's another attraction takes place when He went up out of the water. This prophet who had been so loyal to declare his age and the time, he looked up and he saw the heavens open. He saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, descending upon Him, and a Voice saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased." God was vindicating a prophet's message, what was attracting the attention at the Jordan.

L-84   A brother sang a while ago, or he was supposed to sing, "On the hills far away stood an old rugged cross." What's the attraction on Mount Calvary? When we see the religious world had condemned Him, and the Roman government had sentenced Him to death. And here He was hanging between two malefactors, starving for a drink, Blood running out of His body. There He hangs, crying, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" And the religious people standing there, looking at it, little did they know that the prophecy of the Old Testament was being met right there at Calvary that time.

L-85 David himself wrote, act... fell into the Spirit like all prophets, he act like it was him. David cried, in the 22nd Psalm, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? All My bones they stare at Me. They pierced My hands and My feet."    David, speaking like it was him. And it wasn't David, it was Christ in David.

L-86 And here the very prophecy that went forth, of all the different prophets, was being fulfilled on Mount Calvary. What's the attraction on Mount Calvary? God fulfilling His Word.


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