<TITLE>11. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 Everybody's wanting something that's glamour, that's got a lot of tinsel on it. Christ is humility. Here not long ago a certain man, friend of mine. I was supposed to go to Chicago to speak in a convention. And because on the tapes I'd made a statement that it wasn't apples that Eve eat, the man turned it down. And when he did, he went and got some man--great hierarchy from a great institution of Chicago, and the man come to speak.
And when he did, he had everything wrote out in a book, about like that. An intellectual sermon, you couldn't have heard a better one. But he found out when speaking it, it didn't go with full Gospel people, the intellectual ideas.
He come stomping up there with his chest out, and throwed it out. And he even made fun of them and everything. But when he did, he found out it didn't go so good. So he found out he was wrong. He closed up his books, and walked down with his shoulders down, humbly walking down.
There was an old saint setting over in the corner, punched the one next to him, said, "If he would've went up the way he came down, he'd have come down the way he went up." So that's about right.

L-44 Men who are borned of the Spirit of God know God by an experience, and it's exactly with the Word. And they tell you, "The Holy Ghost is excitement. It's not this, it's not that..." It's contrary to the Word. The Word said it is right.
Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "The promise is to you, to your children, and to them that's far off, many as the Lord our God shall call." It's for whosoever will, let him come.

L-45 Now, notice. Jesus could stand there and say, "If I don't do the works that My Father said I would do, then don't you believe Me. Now, you go search the Scriptures. If you're wondering about what I'm doing, then go search the Scriptures; for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They which testify of Me. Now, look at the Scriptures and see what day you're living in."
Said, "You hypocrites, you see the sun setting. You say, 'Oh, it's red and lowering. Tomorrow it will be rain. If it's setting clear, tomorrow will be a fair day.'" Said, "You can discern the face of the skies, but the sign of the time you can't discern. If I don't do the works of My Father, then don't believe Me." Now, there's a statement. That was making Him the same as God was. Being the Son of God, He was equal with God. As the Bible said, not make Him robbery 'cause He was God manifested in flesh.

L-46 Now, that... Watch what we're trying to place now, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Here He was standing here, and the Word of God predicting what would take place in that day, and here He was standing here doing it. And He said, "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think ye have Eternal Life, and They are They which testify of Me. If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me; but if I do the works and you can't believe Me, believe the works."

L-47 Now, watch closely now. What Scriptures in the Bible, Old Testament, that testified of Jesus. He said, "The Scriptures, They are They which testify of Me." Now, if He said that... All Scripture's inspiration, and I want to see that guy that tells me It contradicts Itself. It doesn't contradict Itself. It's perfectly in harmony. It's hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent, Jesus said so, but would be revealed to babes such as would learn.


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