<TITLE>16. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 Notice. That's the way... Now, remember, there were those there that were holy men; they were good men; they were teachers. But Jesus said, "You compass seas to proselyte one person. And when you bring him into your fold, he's a twofold more child of hell than he was to start with," He said, "because you make the commandments of God of non effect by of your traditions."
And that's what the trouble of it today. We have taken the tradition and added it to the church, instead of taking what God said. See? Now, you know that Jesus Christ didn't come the wrong way. He come exactly the way the Bible said He would come. But their traditions had it fixed in some other glamour of Christ, and He came poor and humble--just exactly what the Bible said He would do. And He did exactly the same thing, and showed His Messiahic sign just exactly the way the Bible said it. But they wasn't taught to believe it that way.
God, don't let us happen to skip it this time. Let's have open hearts and open minds to listen. Make the Word...

L-58 He was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh. And the same Word promised, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me for I (And 'I' is a personal pronoun.), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the consummation." Right. "And the works that I do, you'll do the same thing. Take no thought what you're going to say, because it's not you that speaks. It's the Father, the Holy Spirit that dwells in you. He doeth the speaking. I do nothing till the Father shows Me." He saw a vision.
Now, the same thing applies back today. All that God was He poured into Christ. All that Christ was He poured into the church. It's the same God all the time. God above us, He couldn't come near us because we were sinful. The blood of lambs could not take away sin. But then, God was made flesh and dwelt among us. We believe that. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. Any Christian believes that.

L-59 Today when they try to make Him just a philosopher or a teacher, it just boils me. He was Divine. He was more than a teacher, or a philosopher. He was Emmanuel. God created Himself a body, His Son, and came down and dwelt in that body: God in Christ
"Not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father. He shows Me what to do, and I just act in His Presence, in His place." Saint John... Oh, my. It's just easy (See?), to see what He was talking about.
Look. When He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God; I go to God." Is that right? Now, any teacher knows that that Pillar of Fire that followed the children in the wilderness--or the wilder--or the the children of Israel followed that Pillar of Fire, that that was Christ. All of you believe that, don't you? Was the Angel of the Covenant...

L-60 Moses forsook Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than that of the treasures of Egypt. It was Christ. Then, here was that Angel was in... Well, He said the same thing. He told them. He said even... He was, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I AM was the One that was with Moses in the wilderness in that bush of fire before... It's Saint John 6, "Before Abraham was, I AM," and that was a moral for all generations. Not "I will be, I was," "I AM" (present tense), the same yesterday, today, and forever.


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