<TITLE>15. Par 53-57</TITLE>L-53 Oh, church, can you see it? That's the Messiah. That's the sign of Messiah. See? "We know that when He comes He will show us these things." He--She never said, "You're Beelzebub. You must be a fortuneteller." She...
Now, that's what the preachers called Him, the big, up clergy in that day, the priests; they said, "That guy's a--a telepathist. He is a--a psychic: mentally. He--He's a fortuneteller."
Jesus said, "I forgive you, but someday the Holy Ghost is coming to do that. You speak one word against It, it'll never be forgiven you." And that day has arrived. Uh-huh. Now, talking to another generation...

L-54 Notice, she said humbly, "Sir, Thou must be a prophet. We know, we Samaritans, we're looking for a Messiah to come. And when this Messiah comes, He will show us the sign that He's the super prophet. (See?) We--we know when He comes we--we will know that He's a prophet, because He will do these signs."
Listen at Him. "I am He Who speaks with you." There never was a man before and never one after could say that. "I am He that speaks with you."
And upon that, she dropped her water pot and ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man (Now, listen, class, you Bible readers.) Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
And they went out and bid Him to come into the city. And the Bible said that the men of that city, the people, believed on Him because of the testimony of the woman.

L-55 Could that be deceiving? No, sir. That's the Scriptures, isn't it. Well, if that was Jesus yesterday, it's Jesus today.
Now, look. We are all aware now, that that was the closing of the day for the Jews. They rejected their Messiah. We know that. Now, they were looking for a Messiah, and when the Messiah came, He was rejected. And when He done the sign of the Messiah, He was called an unclean spirit.
Never did He do it to the other race, Gentile; because He was crucified, rose again; and Peter preached the message to the Cornelius' house, and so forth. Now, never did Jesus do it. But remember, it was promised. And God cannot break His Word, that it would happen to the Gentiles in the end time. The prophet said, "There will be a day that will not--cannot be called day or night, but in the evening time it shall be Light."

L-56 Now, we've had a day. How does the sun rise? In the east. The same sun crosses the horizontal and sets in the west, not another sun, the same sun. And when it rose in the east, it shined on the eastern people, the Samaritans and the Jews. And when He was there He produced His sign to show that He was Messiah.
Now, we've had two thousand years of a dismal day, something like outdoors or a little darker. We've had great revivals; walking in what dismal light we have. We've had day when we could make great organizations, build great churches, great schools, seminaries. That's all all right. But it's evening time now; the sun is setting.
Civilization has traveled with the sun. The oldest civilizations are the east. China's the oldest civilization. And civilization has traveled with the sun. Where are we now? On the west coast. If we go one bit farther we're back east again. We're in the evening time. "And it shall be Light in the evening time." What is it? The same sun.

L-57 Now, God is an infinite God. He's infinite. We know that. And if He, after all those years of intellectuals teaching, and He's come to the Jew and Samaritan before the end of their time, and showed them the sign of the Messiah; He would not be the same God if He let us Gentiles go in on intellectual conception. He must absolutely do the same thing, and He promised He'd do it to the Gentile church.
Now, for the benefit of my clergy brethren, that they might have a conception, understanding a little clearer perhaps maybe... Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man."


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