24-0219P_TESTIMONY OF A TRUE WITNESS PT-3
*IT'S A TESTIMONY THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS
TRUTH.
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104 David in the Spirit, as I like
to refer it to it, as Jesus said there, "Why did David in the Spirit call
Him Lord?" David, not David, but David in the Spirit, there's a lot of
difference between David, and David in the Spirit. There's a lot of difference
between church, and church in the Spirit. "Why did
David in the Spirit call Him Lord, if He was his Son, saying, 'The Lord said to
My Lord, Set Thou on My right hand'?" They could ask--answer Him no
more, ask Him no more questions after that.
But David in the 22nd Psalm fell into a Spirit, the
Spirit, and when he did, he even gave the Words that He groaned at the cross.
"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? All My bones, they stare at
Me. And how they pierced My hands and My feet."
Yet, "He was wounded for our transgression,"
here comes the other prophet, "bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement
of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed."
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107 The accuracy, the perfection of
those prophets, not one Word did they speak about Him but what come to pass. The last seven prophesies give of Him was answered in the
last seven hours on the cross. How that every Word was fulfilled, not one thing
was left undone.
What does it speak of? A supreme Intelligence. It wasn't those men. Those men were just men like you and I. But they were inspired by a supreme Being which was giving testimony that we in this generation, and in the generations to come, and all the generations between them and here, could look upon His Word and know that they are true. It's a testimony that the Word of God is Truth.
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109 All His works are
perfect. They're perfect and on time. They don't miss one hour. Sometimes we think they're going
to, but they don't. After it's over, we seen it couldn't have come any quicker;
it couldn't have been any better. It's perfect and on
time.
Even in our day today, when we see these visions happen,
and of things take place, and they are foretold, and we wonder when they'll be
fulfilled, what will take place, but we find out that they are perfect and on
time, exactly.
How could I have thought of my mother, how that I seen her old and shaking. But then when He give me the vision, and I see the condition she is in now, I glorify God. I know that she'll be again. She's not dead; she sleeps. She's in Christ.
*WHEN JESUS OF NAZARETH CAME TO THE
EARTH, ALL OF HIS MIGHTY WORKS TESTIFIED OF HIS CLAIMS.
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114 When Jesus of Nazareth
came to the earth, all of His mighty works testified of His claims. No one should've never doubted
Him. He said, "If you don't believe Me, believe the works; if you can't
see Him to be God."
"Thou makest thyself... Being a man, you make
yourself God."
He said, "If you can't believe Me, then believe the works; for they are the testimonies of God, bearing record that I am what I spoke I was. If you can't believe Me, believe the signs that was to follow Me. Was not Messiah supposed to do these things?" What was He? Testimony. They bore record of every claim He made.
GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD HIS WITNESS.
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124 The testimony of the prophets,
the testimony of nature, the witness of the nature, the witness of the
prophets, the witness of Jesus...
And He never left Himself without a witness. God has always had His witness. And when He was here on earth, He said, "It's expedient for Me that I go away; for if I go not away, I can't send this Witness, this immortal eternal Witness."
*HE'S A WITNESS THAT CHRIST LIVES.
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126 He was borned of a woman,
therefore He had to corrupt... He had to die, rather. God wouldn't suffer His
body to see corruption. But He had to die like a mortal to take away our sins. But before He went away He left us a Witness, the Holy Ghost.
Most all the prophets, all down through the age, way back in the early
beginning spoke of this great Witness that would be in the last days to the
church: our great Witness, the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost is our Witness. He is the proof. He
is the seal. He's the bonafide Rights. He's the Abstract Deed to every Word God spoke. Amen. He's a witness that Christ lives. And because He
lives, we live also. He's the bonafide statement.
With such a Person to come in the last days to guide the Church, it was behooving to God to tell His people that He would be here. All the prophets, nearly, give witness to His coming, of the Holy Ghost.
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130 Eight centuries before it
happened, Joel the son of Pethuel prophesied that He would come. Eight
hundred years before it happened this great son of Pethuel, a prophet;
considered a neurotic, off at his head, nervous, emotionally, mentally upset;
prophesied, Joel 2:28, and said:
... it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I'll
pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy...
... upon my handmaids and my maidservants will I pour out of
my spirit, and they shall prophesy.
And I'll show wonders in the heavens above and in the earth
below, signs, pillars of fire and smoke and vapor.
And it shall come to pass, before the great and terrible day
of the LORD shall come, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD
shall be saved;
Eight hundred years before this great Witness come, the son of Pethuel testified of It, prophesied of It. What struck that little fellow?
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132 Tell me what could tell a man,
that was borned of a woman, of few days and full of trouble... That's what he
is. Tell me what could stir his innermost being, that he could look through
space and time, and see this great Witness coming to the church in the last
days. Tell me what could do it. Nothing but an intelligent, supreme, great and
almighty God. That's the only thing could do it. Strike a mortal, "A man
that's borned of a woman, and full of trouble, and of a few days," as Job
14 said. "Cometh forth like a flower, is cut down; yea, he wasteth away,
giveth up the spirit." But on that kind of a
person, the Spirit, the intelligence of a great, mighty God can break all
barriers and time, press down through there with His Spirit, and show a mortal
what will come to pass. Hallelujah.
If that's not a testimony of the living God, what is one? That can tell it before it happens (Amen.), that can see it before it happens, and foretell it with intelligence and perfect accuracy that it happens just exactly the way he said it... If that isn't a testimony, what is one? What could speak more of a living God? Sure, He's a witness.
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135 Prophesied that it would come to pass,
"In the last days, that He'd pour out His Spirit upon all flesh."...
Seventy-five years after Joel prophesied. Isaiah, the son of
Amoz, he prophesied concerning this great Witness that was to come to the
Church.
What am I speaking of? A Witness, a true Witness, a real
Witness, bring Him through nature, through the prophets, through the Bible.
Now, we're getting Him, coming down into the day that He's to be given.
Seventy-five years, approximately seventy-five years after Joel prophesied, then Isaiah said, Amoz's son, the great prophet who gave the complete Bible from Genesis to Revelations in his sixty-six chapters (as a book has sixty-six books in it)... And he started off with creation in Genesis and ended up in the millennium. This great man, he foretold of the coming of the Holy Ghost.
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138 Let's just go back and read. I
got Isaiah 28:11. Let's just read for a moment and find out here what he
said about the coming of the Holy Spirit. Isaiah the 28th chapter, let's begin
at the 5th verse,
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of
glory...
He's speaking of this
great day that when the Witness would come. What is our crown? The Holy Spirit
crowns us.
... a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the
residue of his people,
The residue, the
"people that's left over." He'll be a diadem, a crown of glory, a
diadem of beauty. Think, this is seven hundred years before it happened.
... for a spirit of judgment to him that is sitting in
judgment... (That's what He does to us at the altar.)
... for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate... (Let me see.)... that turn the battle to the gate.
*THE CHURCH RESTS SOLEMNLY IN THAT.
"HE WILL BE THE STRENGTH OF HIM THAT STANDS IN THE GATE."
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141 Them who is standing for Him and
with Him, this great Spirit (Holy Spirit that's prophesied) will be the
strength of him that stands at the gate in the battle. He
is our Strength. We rely upon Him; not upon culture, not upon education, not
upon things of the world: "Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit,
saith the Lord." The Church rests solemnly in that. "He will be the
Strength of him that stands in the gate." Not his theological
background, not his denomination, but the Holy Ghost will be his Strength.
He'll be the one that'll stand at the gate. He'll rely upon the strength of the
Holy Spirit to turn the alien
away.
Mat 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Mat 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Mat 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Mat 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 10:40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Mat 10:41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
Mat 10:42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
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