<TITLE>15. Par -</TITLE>L-22-3 Now, Jesus never said, now, He's going to bring them to Bethlehem. Jesus never said to the Greeks when they come up, "Now, just a moment. If you want to see It, I'll take you back to Bethlehem where I was born; and I'll tell you how it happened back there." It wasn't that. He pointed them to a future place if they wanted to know Him. "If you want to know Me," in other words, "I won't take you back and tell you when I was borned at Bethlehem, and all about that. I'll point you to a place where I'm going to be crucified for you. And in there, if you'll be crucified with Me, and take up your cross and follow Me, you'll know Who I am. Otherwise from that, You'll never learn it through your ancient arts. You'll never..."
Well, you say, "Brother Branham, but we learn it through the art of the Bible." No, we don't. If we learn it through the art of the Bible, then why didn't the Pharisees have it? It isn't learnt through the art of the Bible, 'cause we've got too many artists trying to paint it. But the Bible is right, but God is the Artist.

L-23-2 The creeds today say, "Join this. Say this Doxology. Repeat the Apostles' Creed. Join our church. Shake hands." "Be baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost." That is denominational creeds. Right. The Artist didn't paint the picture that way. The Artist painted it that Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life. The works that I do shall he do also. These signs shall follow them that believe." That's the way the Painter painted it. So when God reflects that, you know you've struck the right painting. Outside that you got a bogus copy. Amen. Take that old bogus copy of some kind of a creed, and throw the thing out the door tonight, and take the Bible's Gospel Light, and let the Painter paint Christ in you. Amen. That's the way. That's it.
No. He never took them to the manger; He never took them to Christmas.

L-23-4 Isaiah said, "His Name would be called..." In the same chapter he said, "His Name shall be called..." No, 55th chapter of Isaiah said, "His Name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father." Amen.
Wished I had time. I ought to... I'd like to take a text on each one of them: Counselor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Wonderful.

L-23-6 Let's just strike the thought "Wonderful" for a minute, Wonderful. Oh, Isaiah said He was Wonderful. Let's think of some things that He said that made Him Wonderful. What made Him Wonderful? When He said this: "I and My Father are One," Wonderful. Tell me what Pharisee could've said that. Tell me what high priest could've said that with God backing it up. See? Said, "If I don't do the works, now, don't believe anything I say. But if I preach this, then it shows that God sent Me to do it." Said now, He said, "I and My Father are One," not, "I and My Father are three." Jesus said...

L-24-1 Now, the creed says, "I and My Father are three," but the Bible said, and Jesus said, "I and My Father are One." That's Wonderful. See how God made flesh (Hallelujah.), not some second, or third, or fourth person, but God Himself. Jesus said so. Argue with Him, not me; I'm just saying what He said. "I and My Father are One. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father; He dwells in Me. If you don't believe Me, believe the Word, 'cause He is the Word. And the Word was made flesh and I am. In the beginning was the Word."
This same Gospel writer, John, said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." That makes Him and God the same Person if God is the Word and He is the Word; "I and My Father is One," then. Oh, that's Wonderful. Yes, sir. So many things we could say on that. Wonderful, things He said.


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