<TITLE>13. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 So when Jesus came, where did He get His disciples? Did He go to Caiaphas now and said, "What's the smartest group you got?" He bypassed those. They wouldn't believe Him.
Where did He go? He went and got the Indians of that day, the fishermen down on the river (That's exactly right.), men who couldn't even sign their own name. The Bible said that Peter and John were both ignorant and unlearned. That's right. But they could heal a man at the gate called Beautiful in the Name of Jesus Christ, and it pleased God to give a man that couldn't sign his own name the keys to the Kingdom, saying, "Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind it in heaven."

L-43 Why does education play such a part today, twisting the people away from God instead of bringing them to God? Paul... You say, "What about Paul?" But what did Paul say? He had to forget all he ever knowed, and he said, "I never come to you with the wisdom of man, with enchanting great words, but that your faith would be built upon such, but I come to you in the power of the Spirit, that your faith would be in the resurrection of Jesus Christ."
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... and was saying to them, rebuking them because they had not believed Him. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me." And here He was telling them...

L-44 Now, remember, God in all ages has always done the supernatural, because He is supernatural. Did you ever think what God was? Let me give you just a small picture now, before I go... (Oh, I won't... I get blessed and won't be able to. Yes, I am. I'm going to try it anyhow.)
In the beginning before there was anything, It was God. Before there was a meteor, before there was a light, before there was a atom, before there was a molecule, He was God. But He couldn't... He was the great controlling power of everything. And He was everything in Him.
Now, in Him was attributes. You know what attribute means? Raise up your hand, anybody knows what a attribute... surely you know what a attribute is. It's something that it's in you, it's--that's got to display itself. Like an attribute... Like you love scenery, and when you see that scenery, something it just... Oh, my, it just thrills you.

L-45 Now, in God... He wasn't God yet, because God is an object of worship, and there was nothing to worship Him. He was God, but He wasn't God in that manner. Then He must've created Angels. Then they begin to worship Him. Next, He had a attribute to be a Father. Next thing He had a attribute to be--to be a Son. Next thing He had a attribute to be a Healer, next thing, attribute to be a Saviour. See? And all these things had to display themselves. See? And God to make a man sin, so He could punish him? No. And He put him on the basis of free moral agency, and man sinned himself. And so therefore, God became a Saviour then. See?
So it's just only the attributes of God displaying themselves that we see, and everything is perfectly on time. Every gift, everything's moving just exactly according to the tick of the watch. She--she's right there.

L-46 Now, Jesus in His time, He came to display the attributes of God. In Him God was manifested in Him. Notice. Now, He'd showed this Messiahic sign. It was... unbelieving... And God in all ages has had signs to the people. And now, when the people believe that sign, it was a golden age to the people. But when they disbelieved it, it was chaos to the people. Right. Now, let me quote that again, 'cause I'm only going to take just a few minutes now.
Look. When God sends a gift, and the people believe it, it's a glorious time for the people. But when God sends a gift and the people turns it down, that generation goes into destruction. Now, notice. What if the world today would receive God's gift?


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