<TITLE>16. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 Sorry to take so much of your time, but I just feel... Oh, what a fine audience of faith.
Now, if you were--come tonight and you wanted to see Jesus... If you wanted to see Jesus, what type of Person would you look for? A real fine scholar? No. Ask somebody who knows what the original writing of the Bible was in--just plain, not even good grammar, just like you use out on the streets, common people. See? That's the type of Person you'd find.
Where would you find Him at? The great high classes? Oh, no. Down on the river, among the poor, the outcast, whoever would receive Him. Those classic spirits, religious as they can be, great fine synagogues... Remember, scholars... Well, who could beat them priests for holiness? If they did one thing wrong, they was stoned. They had to be holy, without blemish. That right? Scholars of the Word, but yet, failed to see God. That's the way it is today.

L-56 Now, as God took--takes His man but never His Spirit. The same Spirit was upon Elijah come on Elisha, then on John the Baptist, and predicted again in the last day. Is that right? God taken His man, but... He took His Son but the Spirit come back. See? The devil takes his man but never the spirit. It comes right back, very religious. Didn't Paul say in the last days they'd be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof; from such turn away?
Now, we're all here. That's right. God's people is here, Satan's here. The antichrist is not a communist. Communist is not the antichrist spirit. The Bible said in Saint Matthew the 24th chapter, that the antichrist would be so close to the real thing, that it would deceive the very elect, if possible. That's right. It's religious. It's all in Revelations 17: sitting upon a scarlet covered beast, and how that she had daughters that went out from her. And you're not blind. See? All right.
Someday I hope just to cross the country teaching the Gospel, just as the best that I know how. But now it's prayer for the sick.

L-57 When we see Jesus standing there, what kind of Man was He then? He was a Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. Yet, He had a personality... He could tell them when it was necessary to be told. He got some sticks one day, or some ropes and beat the whole bunch of them out of the temple. So if it come necessary, He could do it. Then if He look at you and your heart would melt. See?
And now, how did people receive it? Those who approached Him (now watch), those who approached Him as a loving, kind Saviour, they felt virtue. They were told of what was wrong with them, and what for them to do.

L-58 But they wrapped a rag around His face one day, and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "Now, You're a seer, you--you're a prophesier. You know what the people's doing and everything. You tell them out there what they're thinking about and what they're doing." Now, they hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, tell us who hit You?" He never opened His mouth, said a word. See?
You've heard these people say, "Let me see this Divine healer go heal this person, we'll believe it." Just remember, that fellow's possessed of the devil. See?
The very first thing that--that Satan did when he met Eve, was that thing. The first thing he did when he met Jesus, he said, "If you're the Son of God... Now, you have power. If you're the Son of God, perform me a miracle here that I can see you do it. Make--make this bread in--in... this stones into bread. Let me see you do it now, and I'll believe you." See?


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