<TITLE>02. Par 6-10</TITLE>L-6 And tonight if you will turn in the Scriptures, if you care to, to Matthew the 11th chapter and the 6th verse. I'll read these words.
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Now, I'm going to call this subject, "The Forgotten Beatitude."
We are all acquainted with the Beatitudes. Over in the--the Book of Matthew the 5th chapter, Jesus taught the Beatitudes when He'd taken the people and went up on the mount, just before the beginning, or just as His ministry started. He became their Leader.
And He went up and taught the Beatitudes. And begin "You've heard them say, them of old time, but I say unto you..." and so forth.

L-7 Now, Jesus was a perfect type of... Or Moses was a type of Jesus. Jesus was antitype of Moses. Moses was a--a prophet. He was a lawgiver. He was a kind of a like a king over the people in--in the wilderness, Israel. And he was borned a prophet. He was hid from Pharaoh. Just as Jesus was hid from the Roman Empire. And he--his ministry and life just typed right along. And Moses, when he got the children of Israel in the wilderness, he went up in to the mount and got the commandments, came down and begin to teach the commandments.

L-8 And Jesus, when He came into His power, He went up on the mount and set down and begin to teach the people, "Blessed are the pure in heart; they shall see God. Blessed are the poor in spirit; theirs is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you when you're reviled, and persecuted, and made fun of, and so forth. For they persecuted the prophets which was before you. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, 'cause great is your reward in heaven."
He was typing Moses exactly... Or Moses' type was a type of Him. And we're all acquainted with those types of what Moses was and what Jesus was, teaching the Beatitudes. But this Beatitude is on over in the 11th chapter and the 6th verse. And if you don't watch, you'll read right over the top of it and you won't get it. It's wedged in between other words. But it is a Beatitude.

L-9 And He said, "And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me." See? "Blessed are the pure in heart. Blessed are the peacemakers." Blessed are, blessed are, and way over here, He slips this Beatitude in again. See? "Blessed... And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me." Oh, it was a great time, in those days.
Now, we find that what caused this to start, was just after the ministry of this great, rugged, New Testament Elijah, John the Baptist. And that's who the message was sent to. And John had been placed in prison because of his ministry.
And oh, what a rugged fellow John was. And he was really truly, the messenger Jesus said "that shall go before Me." And he was an outdoor man. And how when they caught him, he was perfectly like Elijah, who his spirit was anointed. He was the anointed Elijah of the New Testament.

L-10 How that Elijah was a--a kind of man that didn't like the way Jezebel, immoral women lived, and John, the same thing. And Elijah lived in the wilderness, John, the same thing. John was a kind of a--stood by alone, just like Elijah did. And that great, rugged man from the wilderness, and them had him down in an old musty, wet, damp jail.
That must've been a horrible experience for John, a man that had been free out in the wilderness, having his meat with the locusts, honey, and the wilderness journey, out there where he could kill what he eat or take what he wanted out of the wilderness. And now, he's down in a little old, musty, dirty jail, perhaps, dark in a dungeon somewhere. Because that wife Jezebel, of--Herodias had had him throwed in there because that he had told him that it wasn't right for him to take--Herod to take his brother, Philip's wife, and live with her. It wasn't lawful for him to do it.


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