<TITLE>23. Par 97-100</TITLE>L-97 Now, I read the Old Testament first, and I seen what God was in the Old Testament through those prophets. I come over to the New Testament, and I taken the New Testament. And I found out the same God of the Old Testament was also the same God of the New Testament.
Then I took from the New Testament down to the organizing of the early Catholic church, which was about three hundred years, at the Nicaea Council when the bishops taken the name of Pope. And the Roman church which took the dogma side, and the Orthodox Catholic believed the Bible and continued on. But the Roman church taken over the--the dogma side, and they still do it today. And so then, in there they lost out the miracles and signs. That went on down for the hundreds of years until the reformation.
Then the reformation came forth. There come Martin Luther, and John Wesley, I believe angels of the church ages--as we passed through the Philadelphian age and the Thyatira age, and now down at the Laodicean church age. And the most pitiful sight of all of it is that Laodicean church age, because Christ was put outside of His church, and was knocking trying to get back on the inside again. That's right. Yes, that's right. The church that we come into, trying to get back after He'd been put out...

L-98 Oh, brother, sister, how He wants to get in among His church, how He wants to move among them, how He wants to express Hisself to the--to the world. He can only do it as He uses you and I.
How did they know that that was Messiah? How did the woman at the well know that was Messiah? When He told her that she had five husbands. How did Nathanael say, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God"?
Because He said, "I saw you when you were under the tree." See? That's how they know it. That's what's the sign of the Messiah. That is true. Just ask anybody. Look through the Bible. That's what it is: the sign of Messiah.

L-99 Now, He's... I've been through this country many times. And I--I am no Messiah; I'm--I'm--I'm your brother. But what I'm trying to say, that the Messiah, the Christ, the same Holy Spirit that was in Christ.
That's what made Him Messiah. "Christ" means "the anointed one." He was a body of flesh that was conceived in the womb of a woman.
And some of you good Catholic people try to make her a goddess? Did you realize she wasn't no more than a incubator that God used? Certainly not. She's no queen of heaven; she's a woman that God just chose that woman 'cause she was clean, and a virgin, and overshadowed her with the Holy Ghost, and created a body in her by His own creation. She had no sperm to it at all; not at all, no, indeedy. It was...
He--He was neither Jew nor Gentile. He was God. He was created in the womb. And that clean, holy body without any sperm from human being at all, was a holy sanctified vessel that Jehovah dwelt in. Therefore, Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." That's right. He could speak and say the words, and what it was... "It isn't Me. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me." See?

L-100 And His Father... That's the reason He prayed to the Father. He said... Someone asked me, said, "Well, then how could He pray to the Father, if the Father was in Him?"
I said, "How do you pray to the Father, if the Father's in You?" See, there you are. You pray to the Holy Ghost so... You sure do. See? God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Great Jehovah God dwelt in Christ. We... It's in us by measure; Him without measure. Now. But this measure that's in Him, the whole church together in a body... See?


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