<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Now, let's go back and see what He was. I read from Saint John 12. Now, for you dear people here from the--the regions and the city around about, when you get home tonight, or in the morning, in the quietness of the day, you women, when your husband is at work, or you pray just before you go to bed tonight or tomorrow night, at the noon hour if you carry your Bible; turn over to Saint John 1, and let's find out what He was yesterday. Now, any of these--of these Scriptures will declare Him, but we're reading in Saint John 1.
After He was baptized in the Holy Spirit, God came and was made manifest, forty days in the wilderness, He came out, and He starts His ministry.
Now, I want to ask you a question, and I want you to answer me by your hand being lifted. If we can find out what He was yesterday, and He will come here tonight among you people and declare Himself the same today as He was yesterday, how many of you will receive Him, let's see your hands. Go up in the air now, every believer, thank you. Let's watch what He was.

L-21 Now, the first place, the reason that this phenomenon is going on today, is because this is the ending of the Gentile church age. Now, any scholar knows that--that we're at the end. When Jesus was here in a body of flesh, He did not go to the Gentiles. And He forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. He said, "I was not sent to them; go rather to the lost sheep of the Israel. And as you go, preach saying, 'The Kingdom is at hand,' and so forth." And He never visited Gentiles. Because there was a few thousand years space to call the Church out, throughout nations.
But in Saint John 1 we find that there was a man got saved and quickly, he went and got his brother. Now, that's a good sign that he got saved: he went and found his brother. And when he brought his brother to Him, Jesus, he was a fisherman. And the Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. He could not even sign his own name.
And when he came in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus said to him, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." What do you think that ignorant and unlearned fisherman thought when a Man Who had never seen him in his life, or neither had he ever seen this Man; when he walked into His Presence, told him who he was and who his father was? Has anybody ever read that in the Scripture? Saint John the 1st chapter, about the 8th verse.

L-22 And this man looked at Him and he become a servant of the Lord Jesus, his name was called Cephas by the Lord Jesus later. And that was Saint Peter. The man who could not sign his own name, the man that was called ignorant and unlearned, had the keys to the Kingdom give to his hand.
Now, you see what we've done with it? We've tried to educated the people to Christ. You just might as well forget it. There's no other program will do it, but the old fashion program, the new birth. Being borned again is the only way that it'll ever be. We've tried to--to educate them; we have tried to make societies, and so forth, to bring the people to a brotherhood. And it separates them further away from God. And we become prejudice, and build up denominational walls, and separate ourselves from the other brethren.


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