Quotes used in the message
“From Moral to Immortality Pt.13(The Father’s Business)
II TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Who hath saved us, and
called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to
his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
began,
II TIMOTHY 1:10
10 But is now made manifest by
the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath
abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the
gospel:
LUKE 2:42
42 And when he was twelve years
old, they went up to
LUKE 2:43
43 And when they had fulfilled
the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in
LUKE 2:44
44 But they, supposing him to
have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among
[their] kinsfolk and acquaintance.
LUKE 2:45
45 And when they found him not,
they turned back again to
LUKE 2:46
46 And it came to pass, that
after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the
doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
LUKE 2:47
47 And all that heard him were
astonished at his understanding and answers.
LUKE 2:48
48 And when they saw him, they
were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with
us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
LUKE 2:49
49
And he said unto them,
How is it that ye sought me? wist
ye not that I must
be about my Father's business?
HEAR.YE.HIM_ INDIANAPOLIS.IN MONDAY_ 56-0611
E-10 Jesus our Lord, as He walked
here on earth, He did not just go about from place to place with great
entertainments, and the applause of men, and the applauding of the audiences,
and of the great flowery things that the men of this world, or the teachers,
would praise Him by. But
every footstep that He made was ordered by the Lord. Oh, I just love that, when
He said even at twelve years old, "Know ye not that I must be about My
Father's business?" How that brings us then to shame when we're
so all the time gadding around. And the Bible said, "That the footsteps of the righteous is
ordered of the Lord." We should walk in His ordination for us. Walk like a
Christian; talk like a Christian; live like a Christian.
And we
see Him meeting with the councils of men. Oh, He meets sometime with great
councils of men. One time we see Him meet with five hundred, again with
seventy, one time with twelve, once with three. And He even promised that
"wherever two or three were gathered, I'll be in their midst." It's
God's ordination for Him to meet in the council. No matter how small, it's His
duty, and His privilege, and His love to keep the commandments of God to meet
with you wherever two or more are gathered in My Name. He will meet with one in
a secret closet, and there where their hearts are poured out God promised to
meet.
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92 Someone, as I have said
before, wants to make Him a little short God. He was man; God was using a man.
God was using a flesh that He created Himself in order to create through Him and
to "Bring through
Him many sons," says the Scripture, "through that obedient Son.
Through one son all fell; through an obedient Son all shall live that
believe." God with us, a sign, said that would be a sign. Jesus
so loved to refer to Himself as Son of man, man Himself, just a man, "I am
nothing; the Son can do nothing in Himself." But it's the Father [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] was in Him, the Immanuel, the God,
the--the baby, God,
Jehovah God, that little baby cried, that was Jehovah. Did you see it? God
living in a baby. God living in a teenage. What type of a teenager
was He? He set the example. When He was lost by His father and His mother, they
looked about to find Him, and they found Him in the temple, What did He say, as a
teenager? "Know you not? Wist thou not that I
must be about My Father's business?" Example for teenagers.
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E-27 But watch the Word of God.
Said, "Know you
not that I must be about My Father's business?" The Word always corrects
the error by identifying God among them, a twelve year-old child. If
He'd been--Joseph had been His father He'd have been building houses and
cabinets. But He was
out there tearing down them denominations of that day. He was about His
Father's business. See what He was doing? "Now, know ye not that I must be
about My Father's business?" See? Told His mother... See how
that... He was the Word. He is the Word. And the Word corrects the error by the
identifying of God's characteristic. Amen.
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210-8 Father, it is noted that when You were twelve
years old, You were found in the temple with the scribes and the sages,
discussing with them the Scriptures. And they were--they were astonished at
a... Men of old, and well trained in the Scriptures, and yet see a little boy
of about twelve years old could just--just confound him in the explaining of
the Scriptures. You was about Your Father's business. You said to
Your mother, "Knowest thou not that I must be about My Father's business," to explain the
Scriptures with their spiritual meanings?
And now,
we pray, Lord, that--that Thou knowing how weak and frail we are and how
subject we are to mistakes, that You'll just come with us tonight in the form
of the Holy Spirit and will explain the Scriptures to us. I'm waiting and
depending on You. And if I'd ever, at any time, try to put my own thoughts or
interpretation or some selfish thing to try to make it sound like that the way
I was explaining it would be right, close my mouth, Lord, like You would--You
did the lions when they come after Daniel. Thou art still the same God.
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E-37 Now, Jesus at twelve, which was our example, said,
"Don't you know I should be about My Father's business?"
No wonder the voice of God is a rare
thing today. It's smothered out by so many different voices, so many things
that dim and take away. It's got to a place until it dulls our senses, until we
can't hear the Voice of God. Our senses, of where we ought to shake ourself and realize that you are men and women, and you are
the creation of God, and you were put here to serve Him, but Satan's voice and false prophets... "Oh, be
modern."
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145 But watch, there will not be
any more organizations after this. Watch. The Word Itself, yet twelve years
old, just a little bitty thing back in the shuck, He said, "Don't you know I must be
about My Father's business?" The Word corrected the church right there.
"What
are you doing all these things for? You know you can't do this. We'll close up
our doors. We won't let you come any more."
"Know ye not that I must be about
My Father's business?" Sure, sure, the true
supernatural charm...
She just claimed Him to be Joseph's
son, a mere man, or what Pentecost did, just claimed Him to be one of three
(Whew, I know that hurt.), one of three, but He was all three in one. But the
Pentecostal, "Oh, yes, He is the Son of the Father of the Holy
Ghost..." Oh, my. But the real true Word speaks right out and said they're
not three of them; there's one of them. Amen. Ye know not the Word of God.
Make, not three of them, but one...
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149
Notice, there will be no more carrier, mother churches, denominations,
after this carrier shuck, because after the shuck there's no more... There's
nothing left but them and just the grain. Is that right? Got to be the grain.
It's got to be the same kind that went into the ground: Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, today, and forever.
A Spirit come upon the Bride to do the
same things that He did. See, it's the reproducing again of the grain.
The
Word, yet young, spake for Itself. "And know not that I must
be about My Father's business?"
There's the secret of the Message now.
Just exactly, the Father's business. What is the Father's business? Could you
think of what the Father's business was to Him? To fulfill what Isaiah said,
"A virgin shall conceive." Fulfill
what Isaiah said again, "The lame shall leap like a hart," and all
these thing that'd take place; like Moses said, "The Lord your God shall
raise up a prophet among you liken unto me." It was the Father's business to fulfill that Word.
Well, if that come down through them stalks of them natural women, what about
these stalks of these spiritual church women? Churches means women--women means
churches, rather. Is that right? Then what is it now? "We must be about the Father's business,"
the wheat would cry back, the grain. Yes, sir. What must it do? Vindicate
Malachi 4; vindicate Luke 17:30; vindicate Hebrews 13:8; vindicate St. John
14:12; vindicate all of His Word: vindicate Hebrews--I mean, Revelation the
10th chapter, of the opening of the Seven Seals; and the mysteries of God,
even to serpent's seed, and all would be manifested: Marriage and divorce and
all these other mysteries that's been hid under the pillars from all these
years from the theologians and so forth, but it's now the hour. That's the Father's business.
Think they would receive it? They want to be dignified and say, "Our
denomination don't teach us that." But the Bible does. That's right. God vindicates it to be true.
Sure it is.