<TITLE>12. Par 39-43</TITLE>L-39 That's the strike that knocked Satan. Born... He could've come down with Cherubims. He could've come down the golden ladders. There could've been an anthems sung through the heavens, and He could've walked to the earth and expelled everything.
But when He held the conference, He decided to come as a babe. In Isaiah 9:6 we find it. "Unto us a Child is born, a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulders: and His Name shall be called the Counselor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. And of His dominion, there shall be no end. This will be a sign unto you: A Babe, not a god, a Baby.
Look where He was born. It had to be decided in the conference where He'd be born to make it sure He was man. He was born in a stable. He chose, instead of the--the ivory palace guard to bring Him, instead of an Angel escort, instead of rolling Cherubims with the--with the fineries of heaven, He stuck Hisself, put Hisself in the stable over the manure of the animals, the dirt and filth of the world.

L-40 He was Man. He was no lesser god. He was a Man, born like we are through the mess of birth, come from the womb of a woman. Not a god, a Man. He was nothing like... No wonder the greatest sign...
You see in the meetings the sign of discernment, the Presence of the living God. You see the signs everywhere of Him. But let me say this to you, my brother, my sister, there never was a sign so striking, as the sign that the Angels told the shepherd, "You'll find Him in the stable wrapped in swaddling's cloth." You can see what God is.

L-41 That's what it startles me today. Why is a revival can come to town, or some great noted evangelist, and the great up-and-ups go, the mayor of the city, and all the up-and-ups of the fine dressed, and the poor's kinda looked down on? And you talk about some minister, who's got some great education, that he can speak the most fluent words, that just tickle your understanding with great words, that the poor would never understand, and you all call that great.
Don't you see that God is in humility? "This will be a sign: the Baby shall be wrapped in swaddling cloth and be laid in a manger" over the manure of the cattle and sheep. Oh, my. That's a sign. "This shall be a sign unto you: you shall find the Baby there."

L-42 Many times people think in the little old tore up tabernacle... Some preachers that hardly know their ABC's, gangsters, and bootleggers, and everything else, converted, no education, and use their Southern expressions of, "His," "hain't," and "carry," and "tote," and "fetch,"... "You'll never find God there." But that's where you'll find Him, wrapped in swaddling's cloth, humility.
You think it comes in some great way. If you want to hold your real conference with God, get a bunch of people like that, then talk it over.
You can see the work of God, how He didn't take some sculpture, some great artist and something, and give him an intellectual speech, but He took something that was nothing. Come down, just like He did at the first place.

L-43 Someone said not long ago, "If this discernment, and this healing, and so forth was of God, the Catholic hierarchy would have it." Why didn't the Jewish hierarchy have it? It wasn't borned in the palace; was borned in a stable. He didn't have needlework garments to put on, but the rags off the back of a yoke of an ox, laying over a pile of manure, the Son of God, the Tabernacle in which God lived in. That's how He decided to come. And we have to have turned around collars and frock-tailed coats, and big fine churches, and golden steeples.
"This will be a sign: you'll find Him in swaddling's cloth... wrapped in swaddling's cloth and laid in a manger. There's a sign unto you." God dwells in humility, not in pomp. That's always been the devil's idea. God comes in humility. That'll be a sign.


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