<TITLE>04. Par 24-33</TITLE>L-24 Now, Dr. Scofield tries to say, that, "It was a priesthood, called, 'The Melchisedec priesthood.'"
But I just want to take you on that just for a few minutes. If it was a priesthood, then it had to have a beginning, and it had to have an end. But, "This had no beginning or had any end." And he did not say he met a priesthood. He met a Man, and called his name "Melchisedec." He was a Person, not a denomination, not a--a--a priesthood or a fatherhood. He was absolutely a Man by the name of Melchisedec, who was the King of Jerusalem. Not a priesthood, but a King without a father. Priesthoods don't have father. "And this Man was without father, without mother, without beginning of days or ending of life." Now, the Son of God...

L-25 Who this was, this was Jehovah. This was Almighty God Himself. It could be no other.

L-26   Now notice, "He abideth forever." He has a testimony here, that, "He liveth. He never dies." He never did. He never was nothing else but alive. "He abideth forever."

L-27 Now, Jesus was made, likened unto Him. Now, the reason that there's a difference between God and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning; God had no beginning. Melchisedec had no beginning, and Jesus had a beginning. But Jesus was made, likened unto Him. "A priest, abideth forever."

L-28   Now, when Melchisedec was on earth, he was nothing in the world but the--the Jehovah God made manifest by creation, He was here like a theophany. Abraham met Him once, in his tent. And as we said this morning, "Abraham recognized Him. And He told Abraham what He was going to do, because He was not going to leave the heir of the world blind to the things that He was going to do."

L-29 May I stop here for a minute, to say, God still has the same opinion about His Church. You're not children of darkness. You're children of Light. And the... we who... "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." And would the God, Who acted to--to Abraham, who was to inherit the earth... And He said, "I will not keep these things back from the man that's going to inherit the earth." How much more will He reveal His secrets to His Church that's going to inherit the earth!

L-30   Daniel said, "In that day they run to and fro, knowledge shall increase." And he said, "The wise shall know their God, in that day, and shall do great exploits in that day. But the wicked will not know the God of Heaven." They know Him in a form and in a ritual, like our first lesson said, but they don't know Him by the way of perfection.

L-31   And God can only work through perfection, because He's Perfect. Blessed be His Name. It has to be a perfect channel that God works through, 'cause He can do nothing else but work through perfection. He can't stain Himself in any way. And then that's why Jesus came to take away our sins, that we might be perfected, that God could work through His Church. There is where the secret lays.
There is where the world is blind. There is where they want to say, that, "You've lost your mind." There is where they want to say, "You don't know what you're talking about."
Because, "The things of the Lord is foolish to the wisdom of this world. But the things of the world is carnal to the believer." So, you're a different person, you're living in a different sphere. You're not no more of this world. You've passed from this life into a new Life.

L-32 Therefore, God reveals, not to the world, not to the psychologist, not to the educated ministers, but to the humble in heart. His people who is meek, He will reveal the secrets of the great things of God, to them. You see it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-33   Now, now, Abraham was to inherit the world. Through Abraham's Seed was all nations to be blessed. So God came down and talked to him, in the form of a Man.
Now, God has always been on the earth. God has never left the earth. If He'd ever leave the earth, I don't know what would become of it. But God has always been here in some form. Oh, praise His Name!


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