<TITLE>11. Par 85-90</TITLE>L-85 But what happened when it come? What taken place? There was no display of heaven, what they ever seen. There was one, but they didn't see it. They didn't see it. See? When did all the mountains skip like little rams? When did all the high places come low and the low places high? An old fuzzy-faced preacher come walking out of the wilderness and didn't even know his abc's. According to history he went in the wilderness at nine years old and never appeared again until he was thirty. He lived off of locusts and wild honey. Locusts is grasshoppers, them long grasshoppers.
They eat them all the time. Well, you can buy them right here in the... Don't think that's bad, 'cause you can buy them right here in the supermarket if you want them, bumblebees, honeybees, locusts, rattlesnake, whatever you want. See?

L-87 So he lived off of locusts and wild honey. What a diet. But he was kept by the power of God. He didn't dress with his collar turned around, as somebody said last night, Brother Parnell or some of them. He didn't dress with a frock-tailed coat, and all about it. Come out of the wilderness with a big, old piece of sheepskin wrapped around him. As I've said, maybe... We have to take a bath every day, and perhaps he never took one every three or four months, out there in the wilderness. I don't know. He wasn't very much to look at. He didn't have no pulpit. He didn't go into any big cities and have big campaigns. He stood out there on the banks of Jordan, mud up to his knees, and said, "You generation of vipers, who's warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" Yeah, that's when the high places was made low (See?), and the low places made high. Yes, sir.

L-88 Then, the first thing you know, they was expecting the Messiah to come down with Angels and things, and settle down on the canopies out there and--and the--the temple where they'd built for Him to come to (like we are building great big places today across the nations and so forth). See? And when did He come? He bypassed every one of them synagogues, every one of them organizations, and come down to a stable. They forced Him into it.
That's what it is today. He's forced into things, forced to do it, forced to be interdenominational, because His message don't cooperate with the denominations. His message today, preached by His ministers, is interdenominational, 'cause the denominations oust Him out. The Bible said so. He was on the outside, knocking, trying to come in (See?), in His own church. That's where it's at. See, it's just the same today.

L-90 So remember, what looks big to men, is little before God. Now, that's the reason you don't have to have a lot of flowers. And when God comes again, when Jesus comes again, you'll be surprised, that little wash woman back in the alley. You'll be surprised, that guy that don't say nothing, keeping his secrets to himself and walking around before God, humble. You'll be surprised. It'll sure...
I preached not long ago that the judgments, "The Surprises at the Judgment." It won't be a surprise to see the bootlegger there; he knows he's going. Sure. Won't be surprised to see the liar, the adulterer, everything there, that ain't. But the surprise will be, and the disappointment will be, those who think they were going; yeah, and then be turned down. Those who said, "Well, wait a minute, my mother belonged to this church; my father belonged to this church, my grandfather and grandmother. I've been a member there all my life."
"Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity; I didn't even know you."


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