<TITLE>27. Par -</TITLE>L-782-186 How do you know that you're not that person for your community or somebody that you'll meet? Take sides with Him; do Him a service; do something for Him. You know what I mean, brethren? Take your side with Jesus. Take Him--make Him your choice. Do service for Him regardless of whether anybody else, or you're ever repaid or anything. Don't make any difference. Wait till the work's over.
How would you like for Him to say... Even though you'd prayed for sick and they didn't get well, though you prayed to get to speak with tongues, and you didn't do it, you prayed to prophesy, you didn't do it; but yet, the only thing you can do is tell the story of Jesus in your church, or in your community, at your work. You couldn't even do one thing, didn't lead one person. That woman didn't lead one to Christ, but she done a service for Him. And what difference does it make at the end of the road, if He'll say, "And I say unto you, all your sins... Though maybe not one prayer was answered for you, but you come on the basis of My Word. You come because you believed Me, and you did Me a service. And I say that the many sins that you have done is all forgiven you." That would be good enough for me. Amen. Yes, sir.

L-782-188 All right. They want to say, "The days of miracles are passed" and--and so forth. Let them go ahead and say it, but let us do the service for the Lord. They hated Him because they were jealous of Him. That's the only reason; they were jealous. They were trying to destroy His influence before the people, the same as they're doing now. They... If they can just destroy the influence of the Message before the people, then they've got the thing whipped. That's right. Because why did they try to do it? Because He was against all their creeds, and all their church doctrines, and everything that they believed in, and called all their--all their faiths and so forth, He was against it all, and they hated Him, because He didn't barge in with them.

L-783-189 Now, if He'd come in and said, "Oh, Caiaphas, marvelous man of My Father, I am Messiah. Come here, Caiaphas. Do you see that water there? You remember down in--in Egypt, Moses, the great prophet turned it into a--into blood. You remember that, Caiaphas?"
"Oh, young fellow, I'm very well acquainted with that story."
"All right, Caiaphas, I'm going to turn the water now, from water to blood, to show you that I am that Prophet that Moses spoke of. There it is, Caiaphas. What do you think about it?"
"What do you think about Caiaphas being a Pharisee? What do you think about the Pharisees?"
"Oh, I think they're the marvelous race of people. Oh, you all keep the traditions of the fathers just exactly right."
"You know, you could be the Messiah."
No, He wouldn't have been. That would been a very mark that He wasn't. When you see somebody come, say, "Come here, and I'll show you what I'll do." And, "Come here, and I'll do this and that." You remember right now there's something shady about it to start with. Jesus said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first." See?

L-783-195 Yes, He was against them. He taught against them. He condemned their Sabbath keeping. He condemned the way they dressed. He condemned all the ways of their life, all their traditions, all their pot washing, and kettle washing, and hand washing, and everything else. He condemned it every bit. To their dressings, He said, "You wear broidered garments and desire the high seats, and make long prayers, and sted--devour widows' homes." Said, "You receive more damnation."
"Well, remember, I'm Doctor So..."
"I don't care who you are." Oh, man, He really put it on them. They didn't... Why? Because they didn't believe Him; He was the Word. See? He was trying to break up that legalistic bunch, and if He was here on earth today, He'd try to do the same thing.


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