<TITLE>40. Par -</TITLE>L-572-390 Now, as far as me myself, as a man, I'm as you and worse than you. I--I--I... Many of you all come with Christian backgrounds and things. "I'm the chiefest of sinners," as it was said one time, "among you." The lowest of life, I guess, that could be lived, as an unbeliever and doubter, I was.
But since a child I've always knowed that there was a God, and knowed there's something happened in my life. And that's--that's beyond any question, my brother. See? But let me say this, that there will come--there will come a message, and there will come a messenger. I believe that if it's to be a man, it--it'll be somebody after me. See? It'll be... But this message that I'm preaching is the true message of this day, and it's the last message. You see what I'm doing, brethren? I'm putting you all the same place I am, 'cause you're just as much into it as I am. You are messengers of this same message.

L-573-392 Let... Here, I got an illustration. I--I think I can make it better by an illustration. Let me just partially close this door for a moment. This is Jesus, and that is Jesus; well, I'll put this over here, Gethsemane, and this here and there. Now, you can't... I didn't even say this out before the church out there. Now, remember, what kind of a light (a star) led the man who was seeking wisdom "to guide us to Thy perfect Light"?
Now, I'm going to break down here just a minute and tell you something. Let's jerk that thing off of--of Willie's done up there, and then say it's right. Let's just say it's right. I can't say that, brethren. That's a stuffed shirt. That I wouldn't... Even if I believed it, I wouldn't say it. See? Somebody else says it, that's them.

L-573-394 But here, just like I was just asked, some of the boys, if they would kind of testify of some of the things that's happened. I don't like to get in the pulpit and testify of something that's happened in the meeting. Let the manager or somebody else do that, somebody else does it. I don't like to do that.
[A brother says, "Even they came to John and said, 'Are you the Christ?'"--Ed.] Yeah, that's it, what I'm trying to get that. ["'Are you that Prophet?'"--Ed.] He denied it. ["Didn't say either one, he says, 'I'm just one crying in the wilderness.'"--Ed.] "The voice of one crying in the wilderness." He positionally placed himself.
[Another brother says, "They asked him if he was that Prophet, he said, 'I am not.'"--Ed.] Yeah. Now... For the Prophet was that One that Moses spoke of. See, that's the Prophet. See, see? But he knew who he was. See? But he did tell, now, that... He did tell them (See?) and he did say, "I am the voice of one..." That was him. He--he said what he was. See? But he was a...

L-574-397 Go ahead. [A brother says, "When Christ came along then, following John, they come to Him and He said... believed and he taught to these that Elijah would come before the Messiah. He said, 'If you can receive it.'"--Ed.] That was him. That's right. That's right. And John kept saying, "I'm nothing. I'm nothing. I'm not worthy to loose His shoe."
But what about when Jesus said about him? He said, "Who'd you go out to see?" Yes. Yes. "Did you go to see a reed shaken with the wind? Or what did you go to see, some man in fine raiment and luxury and things?" Said, "They're in king's palace. But did you go to see a prophet?" said, "I say yes, and more than a prophet." He was more than a prophet; he was a messenger of the covenant. That's what he was. He was more than a prophet. He said, "There's never been a man born of a woman as great as him to this time." See?
That's what it was (See?); he was a messenger of the covenant. He was the one that introduced and said, "This is Him." All the other prophets spoke of Him, but John said, "This is Him." See?


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