<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 Now, then we look [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Watch what type of person He was. When we find Him, He wasn't different from any other man to look at. He was so, well, we would call it simple dressed and so forth, till He went among men, and no man knowed Him any different from anyone else hardly, but only His disciples. Something He would be talking of, and He'd walk right among the people, and they didn't know Who He was, because He... All men dressed just alike.
If we would be looking for Him, we wouldn't look for some great high priest, and dress altogether different to make Hisself look different from anybody else. He'd just be a common, clean dressed Man if He lived today. And that's the type of a person He would be. He wouldn't be so culturedly and so highly educated until no one hardly knowed what He was speaking about. The Bible said, "The common people heard Him gladly." That was just people like--like you and I. We were just common people.

L-18 The Bible is written in such a common language until the scholars and educators, they take a word like this, they say, "This word means so-and-so, and so-and- so." Come to find out, it was spoke in the everyday Greek language and they missed the meanings of it.
Well, you know what? In my times around the world, you know where I needed a--an interpreter more at than anywhere else was in London, England. Yes. I thought I spoke English till I got there. And I realized that I didn't speak English. No, I--I couldn't understand nothing they were saying; they couldn't understand me. So...

L-19 One time I was in Miami, and I called up here to New York. Someone was on the phone, and I had a connection, and the--and the little operator at the south couldn't make this little northern operator understand what she was talking about. And they had to break it down at St. Louis and get one to interpret between the north and south, right here in America. That's right.
Well, Jesus spoke with such a plain everyday language that you'd hear on the street. And now, if you try to use the very high scholarly English interpretation of the... Look where we would be tonight. My, if I'd set up here with some great... Well, you might understand me, but ordinarily just the run of the--the people wouldn't understand if you use such high grammar, good grammar.

L-20 So God did it that way because He said He would hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and would reveal it to babes such as would learn. God is not known by how much education you have. God is known by what faith you have. See? God's not known by science, neither is He knowed by any culture, but He's knowed by faith. And through grace He projects Himself to His believer. It's through a act of grace that God projects Himself to the people.
If we would start to follow Him for a little bit, then we would know more about what type of Person we would look for. Well, we know His birth as we're going to celebrate that soon, the Lord willing, at the Christmas time, how He was born in a manger and so forth.
But then we find out that that wasn't just exactly the Christmas story. Many times if you read the Bible, we find out that this Christmas story have going to Mary at the manger, and a little baby. That's fiction.


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