<TITLE>07. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Now, Jesus had come and He had proved to the people by every means that the Scripture had said, that He was the Messiah that was--they looked to come. Now, many of them had drawed the wrong conception of His coming, and that's the reason He was misunderstood. Pardon the expression, but that's the reason tonight He's misunderstood. They draw the wrong conception of what He is.
Now, I believe while I was standing there, I heard my associate here, read the Scripture of saying that the campaign themes are always "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." And he quoted it in Hebrews 13:8 that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now, when He came they--the--the great group of Israel was certainly, eyes open wide looking for a Messiah, but they were looking for Him in the way that they had been taught that He would come. Well now, any good spiritual thinking, or even intellectual thinking person, would know that He did not come contrary to the Scriptures. He'd come contrary to their understanding of the Scriptures, not contrary to the Scriptures.
But they had been taught by their teachers in such a way that the teachers had--had the wrong conception of Him. And may I not hurt feelings by saying this, but perhaps it could be that way again. You know if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He probably will come a little different than what we are expecting Him to come. That's only a--a logical, sensible, way to approach such a thought, I would believe, in this day.

L-21 Now, we will see then that when He came, the Messiah was supposed to be, according to the prophet Moses, who was really the one who predicted His coming and said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me." Now, any good theologian would've knowed that that Messiah had to be a prophet, or His--or His attributes that followed Him would be prophetic because that Israel was always commanded to believe their prophets. They always were.
But we have to draw this under consideration too, that not all can come to Christ. For He said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. And all the Father has given Me will come to Me." Look at the millions that received--that did not receive Him in that day and the minority that did receive Him. Now, let's place that over on today and look at it squarely the way it should be.

L-22 Now, we see as He come that He did do the sign of the Messiah. And as many times through the week we have tried to produce that and show it over and over and over again; all the way from Genesis to Revelations we found it. Is that right, class, this week? That what the Messiah would be... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He was anointed, the prophet always has the Word of the Lord, a true prophet. See? The prophet said that, "They have eyes and cannot see." They could not see the miracles. "They had ears and they cannot hear." See? Isaiah said so. So we know then that--that they had to be that way. Not that God intended it for it to be that way, but by His foreknowledge He knew it would be that way, for He is infinite.
So if He's infinite, He knew the end from the beginning. And that's the reason He could predict the end from the beginning. He knew because He was God. And if He is not infinite, then He is not God. But we know He is infinite and we are the finite. We get things so mixed up and so settled that we're right, then God with His infinite mind just rides so far over it. "My thoughts are higher than your thoughts," said God. His ways are higher than our ways. So we must summit ourselves to His way.


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