<TITLE>09. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 If it's dress, we'd probably go down and see, perhaps, maybe a--a orthodox priest might've dressed the way He did, or--or some Jew. He didn't dress any different from the common street man, but He just wore a regular garment. He didn't dress any religious clothes, because He walked in around men. And they never noticed Who He was, because He was dressed just like the common man.
I believe if He was here today He would be a clean looking Man, wear a suit, a tie, just like any other man. He wouldn't be all garbed up in religious clothes. I don't believe He'd do that. I--I don't think the feather makes the bird. And it's the nature of the bird, 'cause the most beautiful birds we have are scavengers. So we... The feather doesn't make the bird.
So it was (See?) something in Him that these Greeks wanted to see. And that's what we want to see tonight. We want to see not...

L-30 Now, if we'd say, "Let's go down in town and look around. They tell me Jesus is in this city. Let's go look for Him." If we would look, and go down on the street, and find a man that had scars in his hands, and nail prints, and around his forehead here he had thorn marks, and the blood had went down his face, and we found him with nail scars in his feet, any hypocrite could have that. Sure. Anybody... We've got to look for what He was, the Person of Jesus. So now, let's see what the Person of Him was.

L-31 Now, John said in the 1st chapter, "In the beginning was the Word." Now, a word is a thought expressed. It's a thought first. You think it, then you speak it. And He was the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Is that right? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word... 'Cause it was His thought before He'd expressed It, and It was God. And when He expressed It, It became God, because the Word is a part of God, just like you are a part of your word. And when He expressed It, It became God. And that Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld Him, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace.
Now, if He was the Word then, expressed and manifested Word, then He'd have to be the same thing tonight, because when God speaks, He can never take it back. See, that's the way you must have confidence in your Bible. It is... Your Bible is this: God wrote on paper in Word form, because it is God. Even the Old Testament, the Bible said that the Word of God came to the prophets. Prophets, the Word of God came to them.

L-32 Now, when Jesus was here on earth, He said to them that did not believe Him... He was an ordinary man, and He called Himself God. They said, "When You make Yourself equal with God we know you're mad (And the word 'mad' there, of course, we understand means 'crazy.') and you're crazy. You are a Samaritan. You've got a devil," and so forth.
But Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They that testify of Me. They are They that bear witness of Me." "Testify" is "to bear witness."
When you go to a trial to be a witness, you're testifying for somebody. See? And Jesus said, "The Scriptures are They that bear record of Me." Then He was God's Word expressed in human flesh. You see it? God's promise made flesh to express Itself, that's what Christ was, the Word of God expressed in human form. The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
Again He said to them, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But though you don't believe Me, believe the works." See, that's God expressing Himself through the flesh. He was God made flesh, the Word, living Word.


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