<TITLE>13. Par 136-145</TITLE>L-136 Then, as they journeyed along talking, all of a sudden a Man, just an ordinary Man... He wasn't a great scribe. He wasn't educated. He had no education. As far as we know, He never went to school a day in His life, but He had wisdom beyond any man that ever lived. When the Pharisees saw His wisdom, they said, "What school did He go to? Where'd He come from? Where do you find these words? How does He do this? We never come through our seminaries. He doesn't talk like one of our people. Where does these words come from?" And there were offended because He didn't belong to their groups. He didn't associate Hisself with them. He stood out, conspicuous, for He was God.
There He stood, and made Hisself known. He said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do. They testify the Father sent Me." He said, "And My education..." In other words, like this, "If My education doesn't satisfy your longings, if My degree, which, I have none, but My degree, My diploma, is not from your seminaries. My diploma is the works that I do, that the Father sent Me. They are My diploma." That's the best diploma I know of. God, give us more of those diplomas. "The works that I do are a vindication that the Father sent Me. If that isn't sufficient, believe them then instead of Me."

L-139 Now, notice Him. Oh, I love Him. As I see Him walking along there, and He said, "Why are you so sad? What makes you feel this a way? What a beautiful day. Look how everything looks."
He said, "Yeah," said, "I know, but we trusted..." Said, "Are You just a stranger around here? Why," said, "don't you know that, Jesus of Nazareth, a Man that was approved of God by great signs and so forth, we followed Him for three and a half years. And--and Pilate crucified Him. And they buried Him, put Him in the grave. Why," they said, "we was in hopes that He would be a king, a great leader. And now He lays there in the grave, embalmed, and laying in the grave."
"Why," He said, "don't you know the Scriptures?" Oh, I like that. What did He do? Went right straight to the Scriptures to prove His point. And any true Spirit of God will go straight to the Scripture.

L-142 What did He do? Went back in the Old Testament, the books of Moses, and begin to speak about Moses and about the different ones, how that they said that Jesus would come, how He would suffer and what He would do. He said, "Don't you know this, the Scripture, the Word?" Said, "Don't you know that that Word that was back there has been made alive? Don't you know that Christ should've raised from the dead? And there..."
"No, we didn't know that." Good people, loving Him, but didn't know that He was risen from the dead...
So is it today, same thing today exactly, brother, sister. Oh, may God wake your innermost being. People doesn't understand that He's raised from the dead. He's not dead. He's alive.

L-145 And He walked out under disguisement. He appeared to them in the form of a man. He might appear to you in the form of your neighbor. He might appear to you in the form of a--a minister, or your mother. Christ appears to you in people. Then treat everybody right. Be kindly; be neighborly; be loving. Christ is in the person. "Christ in you the hope of glory." And as you go along, and people appears to you, a kind person begins to speak to you, listen to them. You don't know, it might be Jesus speaking to you. See, He appears. "I--I'll be with you, even in you. And as you do unto these, you do unto Me."
Oh, when you get to looking at it that way, the old tradition falls away. See? It doesn't become a form of words and a declaration of so many words puts together. It becomes a living reality that Christ is in us now, the Holy Spirit moving back and forth, through every human being, surging through the hearts, searching, condemning the ruins life in there. And sha... As you confess it, He holds it before God, and the Blood cleanses it. Amen.


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