<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 In the Book of Saint Matthew's Gospel, the 12th chapter, 42nd verse, we'll read this for a portion--for a text.
And the queen of the south shall raise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Jesus, in the previous readings of here... I wish when you'd go home to read this glorious chapter. And Jesus had been upbraiding them and rebuking them because they had not believed Him. He came, He said, in His Father's Name, and they received Him not. He said, "Another will come in his own name, and then you'll receive him." And that's right. We come and make our churches and have our denominations, and they're--you're ready to say, "Yes, I--I--I--I belong to the Baptist, the Presbyterian." You receive that easy. But to receive Jesus, huh-uh, they don't want Him.

L-18 Now, He said, "I come." And when He did come, the people did not recognize Him. He came just exactly the way the Scripture said that He would come. He came and He was the Jewish Messiah. And not only Jewish Messiah, He was the promised seed of Abraham, that we have so taken through the week of study, and, over at the church. And He came to His own and His own received Him not. And He had presented Himself to His own. And He came to Israel, which was the--the church of God, and the people of God, and the nation of God. And He came to His own and His own received Him not, but as many as did receive Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God to them that believed on His Name."

L-19 Now, we find out that there was three classes of people. We spring from three sons of Noah: Ham, Sham, and Japheth. And there was... That was Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. If you notice, Peter, by revelation, was given the keys to the Kingdom, because God knowed that he had the revelation of the Scripture. For He asked His disciples in whole, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"
And one said, "You're Elias." And the other one said, "You're the prophet." And one said "Moses."
He said, "But I'm asking you, Who do you say I am?"
And Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
And Jesus said, "Blessed art thou, the son of Jonas: flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven. (See, it was a revelation.) And upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it." See? It was a direct revelation that had been made known to the apostle, that He was the Son of God.
Now, if the church of God still exists, then those in the church has come in there by spiritual revelation, because that's how we come into the church. But many of us try to come in through doctrinal theology, and so and so, and all right. Which I speak nothing against that. But I'm trying to differentiate between what is really truth and what is part truth. The revelation that God reveals to you that that is His Son Who died in your stead, then that's the revelation, Who He is.


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