Jesus: The Light of the World and Savior

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"Jesus said unto them, when ye have lifted up the son of man, then shall ye know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself but as my father hath taught me I speak these things. Here we are still continuing our consideration of these extraordinary people, these Pharisees and other Jews who reacted in such an unforeseen, in such a strange manner to our Lord and savior when he spoke the words recorded in the 12th verse of this chapter." [00:18:39]

"The world is in darkness, the world is a dark place, and here he stands before them and offers them of everything that very light that they stand most in need of, and yet you remember we've been seeing that the reaction of these people to him was that they attacked him, questioned him, tried to trip him and to trap him. The Pharisees therefore said unto him, thou bearest record of thyself, thy record is not true." [00:58:32]

"Nothing is more important about a man and his life in this world than the way in which he dies, and we've all got to remember when there are only two ways of dying, we saw you either die in your sins or else you die in the Lord. But mankind doesn't know anything about that, it's not interested, regards that as being morbid, shouldn't consider it, they say they're not interested, but they will be because I say it's inevitable and unavoidable." [00:53:19]

"Lifted up, crucified, raised on a tree and nailed to it, that's it, it's a reference to his death by crucifixion. You've heard the same, you saw the same thing in the reading at the beginning in chap 12 in: 32 and I he said if I be lifted up will draw all men unto me and then John goes on to explain that he was thus speaking of the manner of his death, death by crucifixion, raised up, nailed to a tree, his death and all that follows it." [00:07:47]

"Some of them rarely will come to believe in him in that way because we are told that that did actually happen, they didn't all of them, but some of them did, so it includes that meaning that some of them will come to believe after his death and resurrection, not now but then. There are many instances of that, we get them in the book of The Acts of the Apostles." [00:09:29]

"His death you see immediately provided proofs as to who he is, he says so then shall it be made known as to who I am and that I am he, that I am the son of man. How does his death lead to that? Well, let me remind you very simply, there was something very extraordinary about his death, the moment he died the veil of the temple was rent in Twain From the top to the bottom." [00:21:12]

"There is nothing that so proves his claim and the truth of everything that he has put forward concerning himself as that Mighty event that followed his death. They kill him and they say that's the end, take down the body, put it in a grave, now they say we must be careful, there will be rumors about this man, his followers will obviously concoct some stories." [00:22:28]

"The resurrection of Jesus Christ that finally convinced the disciples, the apostles themselves. Don't you remember how heartbroken and crestfallen they were after his death? They said we don't understand it, look at his power in healing diseases and raising the dead, but he's died in apparent weakness, they were utterly doubtful, look at two of them going on the road to em and saying we had thought that it was he that should have brought us deliverance and establish the kingdom." [00:23:54]

"Power to forgive sins, how has that power being released? He was here talking about it, he had power to forgive sins himself while he was in this world, yes, but you know it wasn't during his life that this great power of His to forgive sins was manifested, that was only made manifest after he died upon the cross." [00:28:44]

"Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in Earth, that's the result of his crucifixion, his powers on Earth were limited, he simply spoke what his father told him to speak, the works I do he says they're not of myself to The Works my father has given me, but the moment they crucify him what are they doing? Elevating him back to the glory, God handing it all over to all power is given unto me in heaven and in Earth." [00:40:11]

"Every eye shall see him, yeah and they also which pierced him, Kings, princes, Great Men, captains, Bond men, free men, all men, the whole world will see him, this son of man, Son of God. But just some have you forgotten that you're alive in the 20th century? Have you forgotten that this is 1960? You're trying to frighten us, you're trying to alarm us." [00:45:20]

"You are going to see the Son of God, you can do nothing about avoiding it, every eye shall see him and one glimpse of him will be enough to tell you that he is the Son of God and the son of man, you'll see his glory, his majesty, you'll see him riding on the clouds, you'll see the Holy Angels, you'll see a glimpse of his King, you'll see, you'll know, there'll be no argument, there will be no disputation." [00:49:37]

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