<TITLE>11. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 Now, if they were looking for a Messiah, how many knows that the Jews seek signs, Greeks wisdom? Paul said, "We preach Christ crucified."
Now, the Jews to receive a Messiah, He had to have a Messianic sign, because Deuteronomy the 18th chapter, from the 15th verse to the 22nd proves what the Messiah would be. And if what He showed them as the sign of He was Messiah, that will remain through all generations there is to come as long as there's a person to receive it.
Moses said in Deuteronomy the 18th chapter, beginning with the 15th verse, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet among you likened unto me."

L-31 And the Messiah was to be a prophet, a God Prophet, and He would do the sign of a prophet. Also in many other places of the Scripture that we could refer to God said, "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord God will make Myself known to him. And what this prophet says, watch it. If it comes to pass, then hear him. But if it doesn't come to pass, then do not hear him." Now, that was Israel's sign of this great Messiah was to come. He was to be a God Prophet, show signs of the prophet, because the prophet is the one the Word of the Lord came to. So in His coming was to change the whole dispensation and everything, and He'd have a prophet sign to prove that He was the prophet. He had to, because everything was changing. And that's the reason they'd have to know it.
Now, we know as Christians, that Jesus came exactly the way He was prophesied to come; but the churches in them day had it all turned around some other way. They thought that probably God would lower the corridors of heaven, and He'd come down upon wings of fire or something.

L-32 And John the Baptist, the Elijah that was coming, that he would be some great fellow, because the mountains would skip like rams, and the leaves was to clap their hands, and the high places made low, and the low places high. Well, they expected some great outstanding something to shake the nation.
But when he came what was he? He was a man with a piece of sheepskin draped around him, with beard all over his face, lives off of locust and wild honey, and came forth preaching on the muddy banks of Jordan, and shaking the churches to repentance. When he seen many come into his baptism, he said, "Generation of vipers, who's warned you to flee from the wrath? Think not to say within yourself, 'We have Abraham to our father,' for I say unto you, that God's able of these stones to rise children of Abraham."
Also, "The axe is laid to the root of the tree. Every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire." So you see, it was altogether different. They couldn't receive Him.
When Jesus came, He came with a illegitimate name, came as a Child born out of holy wedlock. Never went to any seminary school, or anything else, that we have any record of in the Bible, or history, that He ever attended one day of school. But He astounded the priests, because He was sent of God; He had the wisdom and power of God to back up everything that He said. And He astounded them at His doctrine. For He didn't teach like a scribe, He taught as One Who had the Word of the Lord.
We seen His teaching was altogether different than what the churches had it of His day. Perhaps, it'd be a lot different today if He was here.


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