<TITLE>12. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 Now, today after that, Aramaic priesthood ceased, God has another way, another Urim Thummim. That's the Bible. If the man preaches anything that's contrary and not found in the Word of God, then I'll leave it alone. But if he preaches what's in the Word, and God comes back and vindicates by the Urim sign that it's the truth, then that's God witnessing that that is right. To disbelieve that is to be doomed.
Jesus... The Jews were taught to believe that they would have a Messiah. And they were told that this Messiah would be a Prophet. And they'd been told that He would do the sign of the prophet.
Now, Israel had a way of testing a prophet, for if a prophet prophesied, and that what he said didn't come to pass, then he wasn't a prophet. Let him alone. But if it did come to pass, then listen at him, because God had sent him. Now...

L-50 And this Messiah was the Chief and God of all the prophets. He was over all of them. God only had one major prophet in any generation. There never was two on the field at one time. Elijah and Elisha walked arm in arm, but he never become fully a prophet until Elijah's robe dropped upon him. That's true. See? They had minor prophets and so forth, but it...
A prophet is a man who's born and predestinated and foreordained for that generation. The Bible teaches that. That's right. By God's foreknowledge He set a certain person for that. Now... Then when Jesus came and fulfilled all the words that... He was supposed to be that Prophet. Don't you know, they asked Him, "Who does men say I am? What does they say? Are You that prophet?" they said.
"You've said it." (See?)

L-51 Or, "We are looking for a prophet." The woman at the well, as we talked of the other night, said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will be that Prophet. He's that anointed One. He will show us the sign of the Messiah."
Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
She went into the city and told the men, "Isn't this the very Messiah? He told me the things that I've done." And the men believed on it.
Now, you remember, He never healed any sick, because He was God. He knew that Philip was coming down to heal the sick after Pentecost. He just talked to them, never performed one more miracle. But that proved that He was the Messiah, because He knew the secret of the heart.

L-52 Now, how many believes in this audience, with you Methodists, Baptists, and Pentecostals, and whatever you are, how many of you believe that the Bible is true, and Saint John 1 where It said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Is that right? That was Christ.
How many believes then Hebrews 4 where It said, "The Word of God..." which is Christ, is that right? He is the living Word. "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, and even a discerner of the thoughts of the heart." Back to the Word again, and the Word is with us.
Now, how does the Word of the Lord come? The Word came to the... The Word of God came to the prophet. They never questioned because he had the Word of the Lord, because what he had said come to pass. So it was the Word of the Lord.
And Jesus come performing that, and they called him a fortuneteller, Beelzebub, a devil. "And calling the work of God a evil spirit," He said, "was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost and would never be forgiven in this world nor the world that is to come."


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