<TITLE>07. Par -</TITLE>L-10-3 And this most unusual setting... But it's in the unusual things we see the truth of God's Word. It's in the unusual thing. It was in the unusual setting of God's Word that the people recognized Him to be the Messiah, not the usual setting that the Pharisees and Sadducees come telling them. It was the unusual thing to see the Messiah being born in a barn, instead of coming down out of the corridors of heaven, as they thought He would come or as they--they said He would come. It was an unusual thing, when at the river of Jordan, when the mountains skipped like little rams.

L-11-1 And the messenger set before Him, instead of him being a fine, cultured priest that would come out to announce His coming, would see a man with whiskers all over his face, and shaggy hair, and a piece of a animal skin wrapped around him for a coat, and walk out in mud up above his ankles, perhaps, and preach a--such a stirring message, and tell the Pharisees and Sadducees, and call those scholars, "You generation of snakes."... That was unusual for a man to do that.
But it also was the way of finding Truth and Life: the unusual way, not the set, routine way, but the unusual way. And it's my heart's desire tonight, that in this unusual Scripture, that we will find the true meaning of Christmas, what Christmas means to us, the way we should do it... Now... Or what--how we should approach Christmas...

L-11-3 Now, we find in here as we have read, these Greeks wanted to see Him. They came to find Jesus. No doubt that they, like you and I, had heard of Him, the great works that He had done, and the great preaching that He had done, and the unusual things of His life, so He became an unusual Person. And I wish to stop here just long enough to say this: that most always, when you find God in a person, you find a most unusual person being used in the most unusual way.
So Jesus was this type of Person, and He attracted the people to find out just what He was and Who He was. And of course, these Greeks were pagans, heathen, because Greeks worship idols. And they were great, well, I would say, sculptors and athletes. And they had lot of art, Greeks did, great Grecian art, that's never been competed even to this day, until their arts... And they were great athletic people.

L-11-5 And being--knowing that there was some God somewhere and they had thousands of them that they worshipped--and they'd heard of a historical God that done great miracles in the--among the Hebrews. And then, they had also heard that this God, that used to be the miracle-working Hebrew God, was over there in their land with them again. So it attracted their attention, so they came to see Jesus.
And notice, usually the way that people want to find Jesus is to find somebody who knows how to take them to Him. A leader or one of His servants is the way they find Him.
So Jesus, if He ever chooses a servant, He always chooses somebody that will bring the people to Him, because it's his purpose to serve the people.


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