<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Now, Jesus at this time was rebuking the people, because they had not understood His ministry. And they were looking for a Messiah to come; they were looking for a--a deliverer to take them out from under the yokes of their bondage. And when He came, He came in such a way, in the great day that they lived in--the most organized, ecclesiastical system the world ever knowed--they had it then. We are aware of that. God, through Moses, gave them the ten commandments, and they taken those commandments and run them out into different sects and so forth like that.
But all down through the age, there'd been a little remnant was holding on to the truth of God, just a small group. The Church of God has always been in the minority. How many knows that? That's truth, always in the minority. When Jesus came, there was just about a dozen, Simeon, John the Baptist, and--and Joseph and Mary, and just a few like that, was holding on with the truth.

L-30 Now... And when He came, He came in such a different way then the people was expecting Him to come (or had been taught that He would come), until He confused them in such a way, till they--they didn't recognize Him.
I believe it will be the same thing when He comes again. Each man has him a chart: "He's going to come riding on a white horse." The other one said, "No, He's coming in a white cloud." What difference does it make as long as He's coming? See? As long... If He's on a white cloud or a white horse, I don't care; only thing just so I'm right to go with Him when that time comes. That's the main thing. But they fall out on that: One will start a group over here, the other one a group over here--just whether He's going to ride a white horse or a white cloud. So it doesn't make any difference, just so He comes. And that's the main thing: is to believe He is coming.

L-31 But when Jesus came, He came exactly in the way that the Scriptures predicted He would come, only it wa--didn't line up with their teaching of that day. They had the Messiah coming... They were watching for His second coming in the stead of His first advent; that's what they was confused on. He was coming in power. They was looking for Him to take a rod of iron and rule all nations. And when He come meekly, borned in a manger, illegitimate background behind him (as the world thought), borned in a manger, a peculiar Boy; all of His ways were odd. Tearing up the churches--splitting them up; and tell them they were hypocrites (and Pharisees and--and the Sadducees and all of them) condemned the whole thing, and stood there alone by Himself.
And they said, "Why, we know that Your word is wrong." Said, "In Israel it takes two to make a witness."
He said, "I'm one, and My Father that works in Me is the next one, so We have two. And if I do not the works of My Father then don't believe Me; but if I do the works of My Father and you can't believe Me, believe the works that you might be saved." See? God was bearing record.

L-32 Many people are following signs. It isn't the sign; it's the voice that goes with the sign. Moses, when he was given two signs, God told him, "If they won't hear the voice of the first sign, then they will hear the voice of the second sign." Each sign is just a sign. Man has gifts and things, but watch what's behind it. Satan can impersonate any thing almost; he is a impersonator, and he can impersonate. But watch the kind of a voice that it is. What does it do? The voice of the sign.
Take a person walk up, big, what they can do, and all this thing, don't you pay no attention to that. God's Spirit is a meek Spirit, humble Spirit, full of love and compassion, looking to all people and bringing all people to a knowledge of Christ.


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