<TITLE>13. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 Now, then the first thing you know, when Jesus was born... Simeon knowed nothing about it. Well, let's do just a little drama here to the end, if you will.
I imagine it's Monday morning in the temple. And oh, my, the people are coming, there's about two million Jews then or more. I suppose, maybe, fifty or a hundred babies was born, there may be more than that, every night. Well then, every morning there'd be a great long line of mothers standing there with their babies, and some of them poor with old turtle doves, and some with little sheeps, for the purification and the circumcision of the child, and whatmore, and coming up the road to the priest to minister the--the order.
Then, let's say it's Monday morning now. And oh, there's been a great conglomeration around the city and everything, and everybody's busy and their... all temples are full. And Simeon had a little time over in the prayer room to pray awhile. Went over there...
I just to imagine he was reading Isaiah about the 40th chapter, saying, "All we like sheep have gone astray (or something). The Lord has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. Oh, He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace upon Him, with His stripes we were healed." I can hear Simeon say, "Now, I wonder who that could be other wise than Messiah." And the same time the Messiah was in the temple in the arms of his mother.

L-46 Let's look coming up along the line now. I see these fine ladies there with nice little needle work blankets, little pink and blue over their little babies, and they're cooing them on the chin, and so forth. And oh, how they was walking along. And there was a girl there that had a bad name: she had a baby without being married (Hmmmm.), belonged to--down there in Nazareth somewhere. My, there she is the temple. There's that baby that was borned out of holy wedlock. Mary knew Who that baby belonged to. She walked right along with this baby. "Keep your distance from her. Don't stand around such a person."
It reminds me of some of these half-sister churches today. We know where we're standing. I know what this Holy Ghost means to me; it's Life. I don't care what the others think about it. It's Life. Might make me act peculiar, that's to the world.

L-47 But notice, they kept their distance. "Keep away from her." They shunning around. And every time... She held the little baby in her hands. The rest of them with fine little blankets on, but He was wrapped in swaddling's clothes.
Now, I'm taught that swaddling clothes is what goes on the back of a yolk of an ox, when they plow with it. The baby was born in a manger, so they just unwrapped the... had no old clothes to put on the little Fellow. You talk about poor. And no... And yet, the King of glory... And they unwrapped the swaddling's cloth and wrapped it around the little Fellow.
And here He was, the little Fellow, laying in His mothers arms, a little girl about eighteen years old, twenty, coming up, holding this little Baby, cooing and looking down in His face. She didn't care. It didn't blush her when they called her a fanatic, or so forth, or this, that, if she was in disgrace. Didn't pay any attention to her; she just moved on. She knowed where she was at. She knowed what it was all about. Make any difference what the outside world says. You remember the same thing by your testimony, if you're borned again. Let them call you a fanatic. That's all right. You know where you're at. The world knows their own. God knows His too.


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