<TITLE>09. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 "Could--could I--could I have been wrong? Is He really the same One? I know the sign was right. I seen the Messiahic sign. I knowed that was right. But--but this meek and lowly, and all this. I--I don't get it. It don't... I can't figure it up. I can't make it--ends meet with it." You're not supposed to make ends meet.
If I could tell you the whole thing, and you knowed it all, and I knowed it all, it would no more be faith. Anything that I can perfectly explain is not faith any more. By faith are you saved. By faith are you healed. You just believe it. You can't explain it. You just believe it.

L-39 So he said, "You go, and ask John, or ask Him if we should look for another. Was my... Has my faith, my confidence and my--my... I saw that Messiahic sign over Him. And--and have I been wrong? Have--have I been mixed up? And now, has something went wrong?"
Now, when these disciples came to Jesus with this great prophet's message, Jesus never said to them, "Now, I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll send you back some literature to give to John, 'How To Be Happy In Jail.'" No. He--He never said that. He didn't--He didn't say, "I'll--I--I'll give you a book on patience. And you tell John how to be patient while he's in jail. It's a--it's a good thing. He's in jail, and I hate to see him in jail, but I'll tell him how--how to do it, well, just to be happy."

L-40 No, He never said that. You know what He said? He said, "Just stay till this afternoon's meeting. Just stay over. Then you can leave after that. Just watch this afternoon's meeting." And after Jesus had the meeting, I'd imagine those disciples of John's setting there, watching every move He made. 'Cause John had taught them what that Messiah was, and told them what it was, and these was his disciples. And they begin to see what has taken place.
So then after the service was over, then when the two disciples went back to meet John, He said, "Go, tell John, the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, and all that comes to the meeting is poor. All that... The poor people's got the Gospel preached to them. And sell--tell John not to be scared, not think anything different; I'm right on schedule. Everything's running right. Everything's all right. I'm right on schedule. Go, tell him there's a healing service going on. The poor's got the Gospel preached, the power of God is moving among them. I'm right on schedule. Don't pay any attention to nothing else. I'm right on schedule."

L-41 Oh, my. And "Blessed is he who is not offended in Me." Now, don't be offended. I believe there's more people offended in Jesus than any other person that ever lived on earth. They get offended too quick. Jesus now in this misplaced beatitude, slipped over there so we could get it tonight.
Why, He said, "Blessed is he who's not offended in Me. Don't be offended in Me. No matter what takes place, I'm... Everything's working right on schedule. So you just--just go ahead and believe it; that's all. Everything's all right. Just go ahead and believe it."
You know, there Jesus didn't rebuke John for that. He didn't say, "Well, I'm ashamed of My apostle. I'm ashamed of My prophet." No, He never said that. He didn't say, "What's the world going to say about this when you've come preaching, oh, such a great Messiah, and such a great Messiah, and then you send out to ask if I'm the Messiah." He never rebuked him.


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