<TITLE>09. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 So then, he said to the Pharisees, "You generation of snakes, who's warned you to flee from the wrath that's to come." See? So standing out there he said, "He will thoroughly purge His floor. He will gather up the wheat into His garner, and He will--He will sweep her clean, and He will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire, and the axe is laid to the root of the tree." Oh, my. What a Messiah coming.
But then, when He got there, little, meek, gentle Fellow, shoulders stooped down. The Bible said, "No beauty we should desire Him, Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief."
When John got in prison he got to thinking about all of this, what... But he said, "I'm sure I seen the right sign. Now, now, He told me in the wilderness, upon Whom I shall see that Spirit descending and remaining on, that's the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire. I seen that sign. I bear record that's the truth. That's the Son of God. But maybe He... A fellow acting like this, it must be something wrong. I--I better go find out." He sent some of his disciples.

L-41 Jesus never said, "Now, wait a minute. I'm going to send John back a--a book that we just got from the seminary, on how to behave yourself in jail for righteousness' sake." No. He never said, "Tell him he ought to have took two more years in college, like his daddy did." He never even went to college to begin with, never even went to school.
His daddy and mother died when he was just a boy. At nine years old he went into the wilderness, 'cause he had a message that come from God, not from some man-made creed. He... It had to come from God. And his--his day was too important just to fool around with a little seminary experience like his daddy had ('course he was a priest). And he never went to his daddy's school; he went to the wilderness, so he could get God's school.

L-42 God told him exactly. "Now, this can't be no mistake, John. You've got to let--wait for this sign. When you see this sign appearing there, like the Holy Spirit falling like a cloud of fire, and the wings of a dove coming down, that's the One." John said, "I saw him. But He don't act like that. So go find out."
So Jesus said, "I'll tell you. Don't go back yet, and don't take a book or nothing." He said, "Just stay till the service is over. Wait till the evening service is finished." Then when they went back, He said, "Go show John (Amen.) I'm right on time. I'm not behind time, and everything's just in order." Amen. See?
That's the way we get today. We think something's happened. It isn't. He's right on time (Amen.), not behind time at all. Everything's running just exactly right, right on time. "Just go show John what's taking place and tell him, "Blessed is he who's not offended in Me." Then after he got gone...


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