<TITLE>31. Par -</TITLE>L-788-222 All right. They took every chance they could to rid--get rid of Him. Questioned His birth, His birth was in question; they put that before the people. They couldn't understand how He was borned a virgin birth and Joseph, his father (supposed to be), a carpenter, and He was born before Joseph and Mary was married. They throwed that before the people. Yes, sir. See? What am I saying now? They're black-marking Him. See?
"Look at him. Where did he come from? Look at his mother, no more than a street prostitute, had this baby. And after the baby was born (she's already pregnant) the baby was to be born, then Joseph married to hide it and then come around with some kind... Why, it's the work of the devil, can't you see? It's that kind of a birth." They throwed that before the people, and not reading in the Bible, Isaiah 9:6, "A virgin shall conceive." See, what was it? They got away from the Word. That's it.

L-789-224 They throwed black figures at His authority. "Gentlemen, don't you know we are Moses' disciples? Don't you know we're servants of Christ? Don't you know we search the Scriptures daily, and we have not one thing? They said the Messiah would come to His temple. Not one word of him coming to a temple. Where's he at? What school did he come from? Ask any of the brethren (both Methodist and Baptist and Presbyterian) you know, Pharisees, Sadducees and so forth. What fellowship card does he pack? Where's his authority even to preach? He hasn't been ordained; he hasn't even got a right to preach."
He said, "My ordination comes from God. My works vindicate what I am. (That's right.) I don't have to have your papers."

L-789-226 See what I mean? They throwed that. His doctrine, why, they called Him Beelzebub. His doctrine, they couldn't understand. "Why, He disagrees with all of the traditions of the fathers. He even disagrees with the Pharisees; he disagrees with the Sadducees; he disagrees with the whole group of them. Now, where's he get his doctrine?" From the Bible, of course.
"Well," you say, "well, how do I know that that's right?" God backed it up.
That's what the blind man said, "It's a strange thing if you're so right and He's so wrong, yet He can take the power of God and open my eyes, and you never have seen it done yet even. Amen. (There's a strange thing. Oh, my. I like to take sides with Him, don't you? Sure.) You say you're Moses' disciples, and you're so right and He's so wrong, then let me see you do the things He's doing." Amen.
That's where His doctrine... They denounced Him and all of His claims. They say, "He has no... His claims is wrong of being a Messiah. How could he be a Messiah and not come to the church? How could it be a Messiah? And here we are the cream of Israel." But the cream had soured. See? Oh, yes, sir, had flies in it. So they--they had to skim that off.
So they said, "Here we are, the church, the elect. We're--we've kept the tradition; we've kept Moses' laws; we've done all these things and down like this. And here this man comes along and denounces our claims. And besides that, our holy priest, our holy father, who did this and who did that and all this other kind of stuff, and all of our great men, and he calls them of the devil. Then calls himself the Son of God."

L-790-230 Oh, my. See, they tried to throw them shadows on the Name of Jesus and on Jesus to get it before the people. Much more could be said there, but it takes too much time. But what? But the Word and the works vindicated Him. Amen.
Oh, to the true believers, the predestinated, that were predestinated to see Him and know His ministry, there He was. No matter if He never opened His mouth about anything, they knew He was. Hallelujah.


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