<TITLE>10. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 I like that comment. See, John had paid Jesus one of the lowest comments: asked Him "If you are the One..." See? But Jesus knowed his condition, how he'd suffered and laid there in jail. And as Pember said, "His eagle eye got filmed over." So I guess, maybe laying there, his prophetic gift wasn't working just right, laying there in jail, knowed he was going to get his head cut off in a little while, and...
But Jesus turned around and paid him the greatest compliment that anybody could pay him. He said, "What went ye out to see? Yeah. What'd you go out to see? A reed shaken with any wind?" Not John. No, no. Said, "Did you go to see a man from the seminary with a tuxedo on, his round collar, you know?" He said, "Them wears them kind of clothes belongs to kiss the babies, and you know, and marry the young, and bury the dead." Said, "They hang around king's palaces," and D.D., Ph., LL., QU., you know, and all that, you know. And see, that's that kind. "But what did you go to see? A prophet?" He said, "I say to you, and more than a prophet." Yes, sir.
Said, "If you can receive it, this is he who said (Malachi 3) 'I send My messenger before My face to prepare the way.' That's who it was." Now, see there was a sign. He was watching that sign. Now.

L-44 Now, God in all ages gave the people signs, bear record of it (Deuteronomy 18:22, also 13:1, if you want to put these Scriptures down). God gave Israel an assured sign. He said... Now, God sends His Word by His prophets. Is that right? It's exactly what the Bible said. The Word of the Lord come to the prophets.
He said here was the test of a prophet: if a prophet prophesied, and that what he said come to pass, then hear him. But if it don't come to pass, then God hasn't spoke. That's all. So don't--don't fear him. That's right. "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord God, will make myself known unto him in visions, speak to him in dreams. And if it comes to pass, then I--that's Me speaking." Sure, God ain't going to lie. You know He can't lie there's nothing in Him to lie. He's the Fountain of all purity, all truth, is God. So it can't be a lie come from God. He's perfect, pure.

L-45 And if it's the Word of the Lord, then it's His premeditated thoughts. Amen. That's how we have Eternal Life, because we was spoken into existence by God, not joined into a church, but born by the Word, the original Seed, that God said, "Let there be," and there was. Amen. That's the way God borns His children today, in the womb of their heart with His Word, and His Word takes root and grows. How can a spirit in a human heart say it's of God and deny this Word, when the very God-Word itself is what's in the human heart? Amen. If it isn't, it's something else, and it isn't the Holy Spirit in there. All right.


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