<TITLE>16. Par 161-175</TITLE>L-161 Now, Christ was tested; the lamb first from the mother ewe, Mary the virgin. And was tested by what? Satan against the Word. When he hit Eve, she fell; hit Moses, he fell; but when he flew up against Christ, and tried to quote the Scripture to Him wrong, uh-huh, he found out that that wasn't Moses. See? He was tested. What did... he turn around, he said, "If thou be the Son of God. Now they tell me you perform miracles, and they tell me that the Messiah's to do that. Now, if it is, you're hungry, you haven't eat, turn these bread into... these stones into bread, and eat."

L-162 He said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'" Your creed, so forth. But by what? Every Word! A part of the Word? "Every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." That's what man lives by. See? The Lamb was tested, see if there's anywhere He had fallen.

L-163   The Pharisees, "O Rabbi, you young prophet, we think you're wonderful. You are good."

L-164 "Why call thou Me good? There's only one good, and that's God. Do you believe that?"

L-165 "Oh, yes. God."

L-166 "Well, I am He, then." Uh-huh. "You said there's only One good. Why do you call Me 'good,' when you don't believe I'm God?" Uh-huh. "So why do you call Me good? What makes you do that? What inspired you to say that, when you know there's only one good, and that's God?"

L-167 "We know Thou respects not the dignity of man nor the word of their position. We know it." Try... He knowed that hypocrite. See?

L-168   He was tested to see where He was standing, see, tested in every manner, tested like we are tested. But there was no giving in, to Him, at all. No, sir! That was the Son of God.

L-169 And the lamb was tested, and was kept up for fourteen days. That was two Sabbaths, or two ages. One's for the Jews, which they offered the lamb in type; one's for the Gentile, who has the real Lamb, and all of them was, made perfect by believing this Lamb would come. But He was, tempted fourteen... or examined fourteen days, He was the Word.

L-170 And you can examine the Old Testament, say "It condemns the New." You're wrong! The Old Testament only bears record of the New.

L-171 A man was going to challenge me not long ago, said, "What's the matter with him?" Said, "Well, he even teaches out of the Old Testament." A Christian preacher, think of that. Said, "The Old Testament's dead and gone." Oh, no! Oh, no! It's only a schoolmaster, it shows what's wrote on the wall. See? Right.

L-172   Now, see, fourteen days it was tested, that was Christ. Now notice, then He was killed in the evening time, should be killed, the lamb was. Christ died in the evening time, the afternoon. And then notice, then he was also...

L-173 The blood was to be put on the doorposts, see, which the blood is the life of the animal. "Thou shall eat the flesh thereof; but the blood thereof which is the life, pour it out." See? It was to be... The blood was to be put on the lintel of the doorposts of the house wherein the sacrifice was accepted. Glory! What is the Life? The Name. That... He placed the name of the person... Go up to the door, and you look, see what name's on the door before you ring the bell. See? The blood was put on the lintel of the door as a type of what the sacrifice was on the inside.

L-174 Now we're going to find the place of worship, right through there, coming through that Blood. Notice, the blood on the door was speaking the name of what was going... was on the inside, they were in there. Our place of worship, the Lamb, is the Word. We know that.

L-175   Now, verse 4, notice, "Leave no bread, leave none of the sacrifice," or, take one from, one age to another.


<A HREF="P17">Next Page</A>