<TITLE>03. Par 6-9</TITLE>L-6 I suppose He had not much of this world's education, for we have no record of Him ever going to school, no record in the Scripture, or the history that He ever went to school. But He had an education, of course. But where He got it, we don't know. And now, we have Paul--Paul's record of where he went to school, and others, but we have no record where Jesus went to school.
He was just an ordinary man, talked an ordinary language, the language that you use at the street where everybody, the common people would hear.
And so then, there was nothing outstanding about His looks and so forth that you could make Him what He was. What He was is not by outward appearance. For He was a man outward, but inward He was God, Emmanuel. Father God was in Him, reconciling the world to Himself. So there He brought the Christian faith.
Now, we'll notice Him. What made Him different? As a speaker I guess He wasn't so forceful and get out in the street and like we do, and scream, because the Bible said, "His voice was not heard in the street. And a bruised reed and a smoking flax," and so forth as the prophet said it would be.

L-7 So there was just something about His talk that caught the heart of people though. He didn't have to be so forceful about it in an outward demonstration, but there was something down in His talk that fascinated the hearts of people.

L-8 How I've often liked to hear great ministers to speak, and I love to hear them. But I've often wondered how He was felt standing there that day when Jesus stretched forth His arms and said, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and heavy laden, I'll give you rest." Oh, I'd loved to have heard that.

L-9 I'd liked to have heard Him when He was setting on the rock, perhaps, on the--on the mount there where He gave His sermon on the mount, and listen at Him. Said, "Blessed are the pure in heart; they shall see God. Blessed are you when men shall persecute you, and make all manner of fun of you, falsely for My Names sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad for great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." See?
Oh, I'd have loved to have heard Him preach that. Brother Bosworth said I probably could never hear that, but I do have the hopes of hearing this: "Well, done, my good and faithful servant." If I could only hear that that's all... That'll satisfy me, right.
Notice, when He was here on earth, Peter said in Acts the 2nd chapter, after he had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit; he said "You men of Israel, this Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you." By what? By His theology? Nope. By His great standing in the church? No. By His degree? No. By His excellency of speech? No. "Ye men of Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you by signs and wonders that God did by Him in the midst of you all which you all are a witness."


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