<TITLE>03. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Now, if we were going down into Binghamton tonight, if our Lord Jesus was here tonight (I say this with reverence.), perhaps would be rejected by ninety-nine percent of the church members of Binghamton tonight. In the way that He'd come, in the form that, in our theology, the way that we have taught Him to be, and so for, if He'd walk in, dressed as an ordinary man, and start teaching, perhaps many of them would not welcome Him and put Him out of the church; because His policies would be so much different. For if--if Jesus is the same, the religious people of the world is the same.
You see, friends, God never takes His Spirit from the earth. God takes His man, but not His Spirit. The Spirit that was upon Elijah, come upon Elisha, then come upon John the Baptist, and predicted to come again in the last days. See? God never takes His Spirit. He takes His man. He taken Christ, but Christ's Spirit returned to the earth.
The devil takes his man, but never the spirit. And the same religious cults of that day, high, classic, educated, scholarly, them same spirits live right on today; same kind of people are captured by the same influence of teachers.
When Jesus would come in today, He'd probably be just as unwelcome as He was then. For they certainly didn't endorse their churches or their theology, and was turned out bitterly, because their priests and ministers didn't believe Him. They said He was a devil because He did the works of God, that the Bible said He would do.
Now, if we were going down in Binghamton, or some of these cities tonight, to find the Lord Jesus, you'd probably find Him among the common people. You believe that? Just be common, humble people, like there is here tonight, would perhaps be the kind of people that would be where the Lord Jesus would be. For in that day "the common people heard Him gladly," said, the writer, Luke.

L-6 Now, would we look for a man that was dressed a little different from the ordinary man, if we were looking for Jesus? No, we'd look for a man dressed just like the common man that walks on the street. Jesus walked in among men, many times, walked right along them, and them, looking for Him everywhere and couldn't see Him, because He was just an ordinary man. He didn't dress any different. He didn't dress in clergy clothes to make Hisself any different. He just had a nice, neat, clean clothes on, dressed like the average man that walked on the street in that day, spoke the same kind of a language. It was so simple, His language was. If you only knew the truth, there's where your scholar's gets mixed up. See? His language was to interpret the Greek and the Hebrew and so forth, and they try to interpret in the terms of their real high scholarly way of doing it. And He just used common language like we would. See? And that's the way, they're all confused in it.
You different with that. Don't go to thinking them things. I--I can tell you now. See? So that's right, for that's the truth, what it was.

L-7 Now, well then, when He was here, would we look for Him to be some great theologian, some great high speaker? No. He wasn't. He was just a common ordinary man. And would we look for all the churches to be patternizing, and saying, "This is the big Fellow. This is the Guy." No, they'd be against Him. There'd just be a few common people that would heard Him.
Well, would He---would His speech so, with such an eloquent speech that He would just simply be able to with His great swelling words, just to conquer people? No, He wouldn't be that type of person.
Well, what kind of a person would we look for if we was to look for Jesus tonight? Let's take His ministry. Now, the Bible said He's the same today that He was then.


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