<TITLE>10. Par 32-36</TITLE>L-32 What does He look like? Where would we find Him? The only sensible way that I could say to you, my friend, tonight, is to go back in the Scripture and find out what He was yesterday. Then what He is yesterday, He will be the same today and will be forever. Because He is the infinite, infallible, unchangeable God.
And now, let's go back. Let's lay aside... I'll lay aside my Baptist tradition; you lay aside your Methodist and the Pentecostal traditions. Let's go right back into the Scripture and find out what He was. Now, that ought to be logical, sensible. And then, we'll find out whether we can see Him or not, whether He will visit with us tonight. And I'm sure we'd be most happy if He would.

L-33 Notice. Let's go back. We read out of Saint John the 12th chapter. Let's go back to the 1st chapter of Saint John and begin. We find out, immediately after His birth that His public ministry started.
The first thing we find Him doing was praying for the sick. And He was associated with Divine healing to begin with, praying for the sick. Great miracles accompanied His prayers, for the Father was answering the prayers of His Son.
Then we know that there was a people in that day that was looking for a Messiah. Let's not lose this point now. They were looking for a Messiah, Anointed One, a Christ that had been promised by the Old Testament prophets. All the way from Genesis down, had been promised a oncoming Messiah. Every generation looked for that coming Messiah.

L-34 But the strange thing, when He arrived, they were so stooped in other things, till they failed to recognize Him to be the Messiah. They was so organized, so tight amongst that... disassociating themselves from one another, Pharisees and Sadducees and so forth, just as it is today.
So the very sign that that Messiah was supposed to show that He was the God-sent Messiah, they failed to see it, because of their relationship with their... or their association with their denomination. May I say this with reverence and brotherly love? It's about the same today.

L-35 Now, when John the Baptist came on the scene, a miracle ministry came on the scene of a phenomena preaching, like something on the order of Billy Graham, that we'd say today. When that great ministry came, the people was amazed. And many of them thought in their heart that this was the Messiah.
But he told them he was not the Messiah. He was only a forerunner, that He would come after him. Then when Jesus came and John recognized Him by a sign. That in the wilderness, God the Father had showed John that he would not be deceived in seeing the true Messiah, because He would have a sign that followed Him.
Now, we must remember that the Messiah, according to the Old Testament teaching, was... According to Genesis or Deuteronomy 18:35, He was to be a Prophet.

L-36 Moses, the great prophet of the Old Testament, who set the Jewish religion in order, said that "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me. It'll come to pass that whosoever shall not hear this Prophet will be cut off from among the people." And on and on it reads of Him.
All the Old Testament teachings pointed to a Messiah that was coming. And all the Old Testament characters represented this Messiah until it was fulfilled in a Man.
David crying over the Jerusalem, after he had been refused, rejected king... Eight hundred years from there, the Son of David set on the same mountain, rejected King by His own people, and wept over Jerusalem. "Jerusalem, Jerusalem..."
Joseph, a born son among other brothers, that was a peculiar birth, and he was borned to be a seer. He dreamed dreams and seen visions and so forth. And he was hated by his brethren to typify the very day we're living in now. And there his brethren was great men, the patriarchs.


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