<TITLE>09. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 But there is those who go beyond that boundary. I believe Him to be God: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. That He wasn't just a prophet, that He wasn't just a man, that He wasn't just a teacher or a good man, He was the Divine Jehovah God living in a body of flesh. You'd ask me, "Who is this?" That's what my opinion of Him is. He's God manifested in the flesh to take away the sins of the world. Who is this? Not just a man, not just a prophet, but the Emmanuel, God with us. Then not only with us, but in us, through us, God in the midst of us.
Then, if that is true, a supernatural God cannot change His nature to fit people's nature. People has to change their nature to fit God's supernatural plan. And that's why people cry, "Who is this?" It's God in the midst of His people. They don't understand it. God will never come to your level; you'll have to come to His. God will not come to your requirement; you have to come to God's. And then when that requirement is met upon a promise that God made to redeem the people. If that requirement has met, your entire being changes; your thinking changes. Your habits change. Everything about you changes. Your desires change. Your living changes. Your habits change. You change. Everything about you changes, 'cause there's a new life in you.

L-35 That's what makes the people today say, "Who is this? Is this that fellow, used to work over here? Is this that... Who is this? Where'd he go to school at? What credentials does he pack?" says the preachers. "Where... Who is this woman? Ain't that the woman I used to see out there on the street?" Yes. "What's the matter with her?" Something happened. "Ain't this the woman that used to wear shorts?" It's something happened. "Isn't this the man that used to smoke cigars?" But something happened. "Isn't this the man that used to drink?" But something happened. "Isn't this the man and woman that used to curse and go to the nightclubs?" But they don't do it no more. "Who is this?" It's the Holy Spirit, the person of God living in them. "I'll go down to their churches to find out what's the matter," like the Pharisees did.
They said, "We'll go down to the gate. We'll find out what they say. We'll see who this guy is on this little white mule, riding down the hill." And when they got to the gates, these people really had a time. They screamed and they hollered; they shouted and they praised the Lord.

L-36 And it was so contrary to their religion of that day. Those priests and rabbis standing around, they said, "Make them hold their peace. We won't be able to hear what the doctor's going to say, or what the reverend... Make them hold their peace."
Jesus, I can see Him as He turned; said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." Something had to happen.
Say, "Could the rocks cry out?" The very God that created them was riding in on a... "Why couldn't they make them hold their peace?" They couldn't hold their peace.
That's the way today. When the congregation is gathered together, that foreshadow of His appearing, the Holy Spirit begins to breathe upon them; they see those signs and wonders performed of the Holy Spirit. They can't hold their peace. Something's going to cry out.


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