Questions & Answers On Hebrews, Part 2
Questions 63 (COD Page 281)
Please explain the trinity. How can the Son set at the right hand of the Father, interceeding for the... to the Father, if they are not two persons?
435 Well, beloved friend, that’s a... that’s- that’s a revelation. If Jesus said, “I and My Father are one,” then how can they be two? See? Now, they’re not two.
436 A woman once said to me, and I was explaining that, said, “You and your wife are- are two, yet you’re one.”
437 I said, “But, God and the Son is different from that, see.” I said, You see me?”
“Yes.”
“Do you see my wife?”
“No.”
438 I said, “Then, Father and Son’s different; Jesus said, ‘When you see Me, you’ve seen the Father.’” See?
439 The Father and the Son... The Father was Almighty Jehovah (God) dwelling in a tabernacle called Jesus Christ, which was the anointed Son of God. Jesus was a man, God is a Spirit. And no man has seen. God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. He was... He... His personality, His being, His Deity, whatever He was, He was God! He was nothing less or nothing more than God. Yet, He was a man. He was a man, a house that God dwelt in. That’s right, He was God’s dwelling place.
440 Now, if you want some Scriptures on that... Brother Neville, if you’d get me Saint Mark 14:62. And Sister Wood, you get me Ephesians 1:20. Somebody else have a Bible? Well, raise up your hand. Sister Arnold, you got one back there? All right, you get me Acts 7:55. All right. Mark 14:62, Brother Neville; and Sister Wood’s is Ephesians 1:20; Acts 7:55, Sister Arnold.
441 All right, do you have it, Brother Neville? All right, read now: [Brother Neville reads, “And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.”- Ed.]
442 All right, now, watch the first phrase there. Jesus said, “I AM.”
443 “I AM.” Who was the I AM? There has never been a man in all the world could interpret It. Even the... you who read the lexicons and so forth, there has never been a man who could make out... It’s J-v-h-u. And even the Hebrew scholars could never pronounce It. That burning bush there, that day when He met with Moses, It was J-v-h-u. So they pronounced It “J-o-h, Jehovah,” but It isn’t “Jehovah.” J-v-h-u, see, no one knows.
444 And you say, “Well, Moses couldn’t make It out.”
445 He said, “Who can I say?”
446 He said, “Say, ‘I AM’ sent you. I AM.”
447 Now watch. I AM is a present tense, not “I was” or “I will be,” I AM. Now, He said, “This will be a memorial through all generations: I AM.”
448 Now look at Jesus standing here at the feast that day. They said, “We know now you’re crazy.” Right words, “You’re mad” (mad is “crazy”). “We know you’re crazy. You’re a Samaritan, you got a devil.” (Saint John, the 6th chapter) And he said, “Now, you say that you’re... seen Abraham, and you’re a man not over fifty years old?” (He might have looked a little old for His age, but He was only thirty, but His work... Said, “You mean that you’re a man not over fifty years old, and say you ‘seen Abraham’? We know you’re crazy now.” See?
He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”
449 “I AM,” He was the great I AM. Here He is telling these Jews again, see, “I AM! And when you see Me coming at the right hand of the power,... ” Is that right?
450 Read that again, brother: [Brother Neville reads, “When you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.”- Ed.]
451 Read yours now, Sister Wood: [Sister Wood says, Ephesians 1:20?- Ed.] Yes, ma’am. [Sister Wood reads, “Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places.”- Ed.]
452 All right, read yours, sister. See, It’s just the same: [Sister Arnold reads, “But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.”- Ed.]
453 Now, you see, God couldn’t have a big right hand, see, and Jesus standing on His right hand. The right hand means “the authority.” See? Just for instance, what if- if I was the full sway of the church, or I was a bishop of some sort, and Brother Neville took my place, he’d be my right hand. See, that means that he’s... he would be at my right hand.
454 Now, Jesus is at the right hand of the Power. Now, He says so, here in Ephesians, when he’s explaining it, He’s at the right hand of the Power. “All the powers in Heavens and earth” (He said, after His resurrection) “is given unto My hands. I have all the power in Heavens and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and Son, Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things which I have commanded you; lo, I’m with you always, to the end of the world.”
455 “All the power in Heavens and earth.” Where is that... If there’s a god up there besides Him, he’s powerless. See, there could be no other God. “All the powers of Heavens and earth” lays in His hand. So, you see, “He’s standing on the right hand,” (as the person asked the question), doesn’t mean...
456 Now look! The body... God is a Spirit. Yeah, how many understands that? say “Amen.” God is a Spirit, Jesus is a Man, and Jesus was God made flesh. Jesus was... We could never see God, see, He’s a Spirit. You can’t see spirit. “No man has seen God at any time.” No man couldn’t see God.
457 And let me say this, “You’ve never seen me.” You’ve never seen me in all your life, and you never will see me. That’s right. You see this body that declares this person, that’s in here. Now, this body doesn’t have Eternal Life, but the spirit has Eternal Life. This body will go back, but it’ll come forth again in it’s likeness, just like a grain of wheat goes into the ground. Christianity is based upon resurrection, not replacement. Resurrection; the same Jesus went down, the same Jesus come back. If you go down red-headed, you come back red-headed; if you go down black-headed, you come up black-headed. See, it’s a resurrection.
458 When you go to eating... I asked the doctor that, not long ago, I said, “Why is it when I was sixteen years old... Every time I eat, I renew my life?”
459 Said, “That’s right.”
460 ou take in new- new cells every time you make... the- the flesh make... or the food makes blood cells, and that blood cell makes you get stronger. That’s how you live. Then, something has to die every time, for you to live. Every day, something dies: if you eat meat, the cow died; or whatever you eat; and the fish died; or the or the wheat died, to made the bread; the potato died, that made the potato; and the... every form of life; you can only live through dead substance.
461 And you can only live Eternally because something died: Jesus. Not because you joined church, not because you were baptized, not because you professed Christianity; because you accepted the Life of Jesus Christ that was bled... blood that was shed for you, and you accepted Him as your personal Saviour.
462 Now, notice, I ask this. I want to ask you this. Look at this, it’s beautiful. Maybe I’ve taught on it before (I don’t know) here; preaching everywhere, you forget what you said at one... certain places. But, why is it, then...
463 Now, I guess, Sister Smith... I don’t know whether I knew Brother Fleeman that far back or not. And Tryphena, I remember her when she was a little girl. You remember me, when I used to be... was a little, short, heavyset; black, wavy hair. I used to box. Oh, I thought I was a stylish man in the world. “Oh,” I thought, “there’s nobody could whip me. No, sir.” But I- I got fooled on that, you see. But I... Now, I just thought, “Oh, my.” I thought, “If you could put this thing on my back, I’d walk down the street with it.” Sure, nothing bother me. And every time I eat, I got bigger and stronger all the time. Every time I’d put new life in... I ate cabbage, potatoes, and beans, and meat, just like I do today. And I got stronger and bigger all the time. And when I got to be about twenty-five...
464 I eat better now than I did then, you all know me, know that. I can eat better now, all of us are. But why is it, Brother Eagen, then, if I am still eating better food, more of it, better vitamins and everything... And the more I eat, I gradually dwindle away. And now I’m coming an old stoop-shouldered man, bald-headed, and turning gray, and hands wrinkling, face pitch in, shoulders going down, of a morning it’s hard to get up, and... Oh, my. Why is it? If I renew my life every time I eat, why is it then?
465 If I’m pouring water out of a jug into a glass, and it gets half full, and then starts going down all the time instead of coming up; and the more I pour in, faster it goes down. There you are. And you couldn’t prove it scientifically if you had to. This Book’s the only thing to prove that God has appointed; it’s an appointment, God seen us coming.
466 You older man, and you older women, maybe some of your- your husbands and your wives maybe gone on. That doesn’t- that doesn’t bother anything. Hallelujah. They’re just across the curtain yonder, waiting; absolutely. And they’re longing to be with you again. That’s right, certainly, they are. They’re longing to be together again. The Bible said they are, the souls under the altar crying, “Lord, how long?” See? They’re not in their right state.
467 God never made us Angels, he made us man and women. We’ll always be man and women, because we are a- a product of God’s own intelligence. We can always be man and women.
468 But what does it? See, maybe you think that when you walked down to the altar, you and hubby, said that we take each other to be lawful wedded wife and live together in a holy state of this matrimony, and the- the graces of God and so forth, and all your testimony you give, and your pledge you made. First thing you know, begin to notice, both of you. He was straight, and the hair shiny; and mama and her pretty, little brown eyes, or blue eyes, or whatever it was. Oh, how you looked at her. You walked out, you looked at dad, “Now, straight them shoulders back”; and after while they begin to droop. Mama’ll get gray-headed, arthritis set in and so forth. And after while, gone she went, or away he went.
469 What was it? When God seen you standing there, He said, “That’s it, that’s the way I want you.” All right, death, you come on, but you can’t take them till I let you.
470 Oh, oh, I think of Job. Yes, God was looking down, Job knew that God loved him. (And notice he cannot take you.) He said, “You got him at your hands, but you don’t take his life.”
471 And then the first thing you know, shoulders begin to stoop, and after while you were gone. What was it happened?
472 Now, in the resurrection there won’t be one thing that symbols death. There can’t be one thing that symbols this earth, of what... See, you were coming up by the will of God, you had life. Then death set in, take you down. Eating the same food and everything, drinking the same kind of water, everything; but death set in. But the picture’s already set. Hallelujah. In the resurrection you’ll be life again. And there’ll be no death, or no resemblance of death, or old age, or cripples or anything. Immortal, we’ll stand in His likeness, perfected forever. Hallelujah. Oh, I... That’d make anybody shout, especially when you get my age.
473 My age is, I guess, when you, think of it, more than ever. You’re just at that changing over type, you see. The... You begin to wonder, “What’s it’s all about? What have I done?”
I look back down here, I think, “My, goodness; well, where’s he gone to, Lord? Here I am, forty-eight years old. Two more years, I’ll be a half a hundred. Whew. I’m only... ”
474 Just look at the few souls I’ve won. I want to win millions and millions of more. God, help me. I get ashamed of myself even to come home on a vacation. Think, “Oh, the harvest is ripe, and laborers are few. Millions in sin and shame are dying every day, listen to their call.” I go to bed there at night and hear them poor little heathens screaming yonder in the land. How they come by the thousands, pulling after me, and- and standing out there at the airport where they had to have the militia out there to keep them back, just to hear the story of Jesus Christ.
475 And here we can beg, and advertise in the paper and everything else, and get the very finest places for them to set down, the best entertainment with fine singing, they’ll come and “Ooooh, well, I guess that was all right, don’t belong to my faith though.”
476 Oh, my, how- how- how long can it last? It ain’t... it isn’t right. And here we are racking off hundreds of billions of tons of food into the garbage can, and them people would gladly receive it. And they’re creatures of the earth the same as we are. My, we... Well, that can’t act like that too long.
477 All right, now, who’s the Father? The Father and the Son are one. Watch, in First John 5:7, It said, “There are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word (which is the Son)... Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: these three are one.”
478 “There’s three that bear record in earth, which is water, blood, and Spirit.” That’s the three elements that came from the body of Christ. They pierced His side: water came out, Blood came out, “Into Thy hands I commend My Spirit.” There you are, that’s the three elements. These three are not one, but they agree in one.
479 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; First John 5:7, says, “These three are One.”
480 “Water, blood, and Spirit agree in one.” Not One, but agree in one. So the Father... And the only thing that the body coulddo, when God can see Hisself, that through the punishmentthis body went through, there’s the intersect... interceptionright there, you see. There’s when He sees that Blood standingbetween Him and the judgment. Here’s His Word, said, “Theday you eat thereof, the day you die.” And here Jesus said,“I... But I took their place. See, I took their place.”
481 Remember my story the other night where I seen the vision of the woman real bad that was in the room there? And I was condemning her, said, “God, why don’t you blow the place up?” Then He showed me, see. And I walked up to her and told her what had happened.
Now, this is my last question.