<TITLE>29. Par 240-240</TITLE>L-240 Listen at Malachi now, over here, Malachi 3. Now, if you could, let me just clear this for you. I believe... Let's turn real easy now to Matthew the 11th chapter and see if I... I may have this wrong. I think I've got it; I might have to look first to see it. Matthew 11... Let's see; start at...
And it came to pass, when Jesus had made a ending of His commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their city.
And now when John heard that he was in prison the works of Christ, was--prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? (John's eagle eye got filmed over down there in prison. See?)
Jesus answered and said unto him, Go... shew John again these things which thou--you... hear and see: (John's a prophet, and if he'll--if he'll hear this is what's going on, he'll know Who I am. See? He said...)
The blind receive their sight,... the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,... the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up,... ("And all of the denominations are together." It don't say like that does it? No, it don't. It said...)... the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,... the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached unto them. (There's the sign. Watch.)
And as they departed...
And blessed is he, who is not... offended in me. (Now, watch.)... blessed is he who's not... offended in me. (In other words, or "ashamed of Me. Blessed is he who won't be ashamed of Me." See?)
... as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitude concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see?... (Watch this prophet now.)... What went ye out in the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?... (Not John. Oh, no. "You generation of snakes in the grass," he said to them denominations, "who's warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Don't begin to say, 'We belong to this and that,' 'cause God's able of these stones to rise children..." Oh, brother, it wasn't a reed shaken by a wind with him.)... A reed shaken with the wind? Or what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment?... (Has to change his clothes two or three times while he's preaching)... behold, they that wear soft raiment--clothing are in kings' houses. (They're the ministers that goes out and kisses the babies, you know, and--and marries the young, and--and goes to the school and makes intellectual talks, and you know, all these little sissified things. See, see? He don't swing a two-headed sword out here on the front line.)
("What'd you go out to see? Some guy like that?" He was--He's asking them.) But what went you out... to see? A prophet?... (Listen.)... yea, and I say unto you, and more than a prophet. (Yes, sir. What was he? Said, "He's more than a prophet?" He was a prophet plus. He was the messenger of that age.) What went ye out... to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
For this is he,... whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before My face, to... prepare the way before Me...
Now, look over here in Malachi 3:
Behold, I send My messenger before My face...


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