<TITLE>05. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 If He was here in New York tonight, where would you think you'd find Jesus in New York? I want to ask you a question. Do you think that Jesus, if He come just in a unveiling Himself like He did in the early days, when He was here on earth in flesh. Do you think New York in whole will receive Him? No, sir. It'd be worse than it was when He come the first time. That's right. They wouldn't understand it. He'd be so much different from our theology, till we wouldn't even... Doubt whether there would just be little handful following, like there was in that day.
He was so different. He does things different; He talked different; His Word was different; His ministry was different; His teaching was different. So they just couldn't understand. They said... And the thing of it was, they--they couldn't understand Him because His work was great and He give God credit. And they finally wound up and said, "Well He's just Beelzebub, the prince of the devils."
Could you imagine tacking that name on the Lord Jesus Christ? But that's what they did. And they said... He--He said, "If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them, His disciples." So as Christians we can expect to be called anything, can't we? But Jesus Christ knows us if we're born again.

L-15 Now, in Jesus in His ministry... Now, first thing in the translation of the Word tonight, in the Saint John the 14th chapter of 12th verse, He said, "Verily, verily (absolutely, absolutely), I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and more than this (the Word really translated right, "more" not greater, 'cause He raised the dead, stopped nature. Nothing could be any greater than what He did.), but more than this shall ye do for I go to My Father."
Do you believe that's the inspired Word of God? You believe that many of the ages to follow on like that? It was. Now, the same thing that He did, He promised the Church to do, only more of it than what He did. Let's find out what He did.

L-16 And If we can find out His type of ministry, what He had here on earth, and these next ten nights, here, in the--in the arena, if He will--if He will come in our midst and reproduce His Life among His people, will every one of you believe on Him? Will you promise me that? This little group here, of a few hundred setting here tonight, will you--will you promise me that, that you'll believe on Him with all your heart? If He will reveal Himself again, right here in this building, visibly, so you can see it yourself, be convinced yourself, would you believe on Him? Now, we'll find out what kind of work He did.

L-17 Now, we'd like to see Jesus. Many would think, a person in this day, usually you'd see them, if they could do work like the Lord did, why, they'd come out boastfully and oh... But He wasn't that type of person. He didn't boast about anything. He didn't take even any credit for what He did. He give credit to God. Is that right? Why, He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Is that right?
Now, let's just imagine like the Greeks did, they wanted to see who Jesus was, wanted to see Him, rather. So now, let's just look at Him that way tonight.
When He came in His ministry, He was born in a manger, low birth, a people, common people He came from, perhaps very poorly educated as far as the world was concerned. We find out that's what makes the Bible scholars all confused. They try to read the Greek, the Hebrew, so forth, and they apply a certain words, because it would... They apply it to the great words that they used in the high scholarly people, but His real words was spoken just in the language like you use on the street. It's common everyday language. So, it turns them around with translation. So you see, He wasn't no great scholar, as far as the world was concerned, 'course He was God, but He... Just to make Himself some great eloquent speaker, He wasn't.


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