<TITLE>12. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 We didn't even have a nation, we'd been better off if we'd just have the nation of God, God's Kingdom. God always answers and sends them relief, but they don't want to receive it. That, God answers when the nation gets in these kind of conditions, every time. When the world, rather, gets in this condition, falling apart, then God always answers their prayer, sends them a prophet or something, some mighty prophet to blast it. But they won't listen to him. What do they do? Put him in the tomb. Jesus said, "Which one of you, your fathers didn't put the prophets out there in the tomb, and then white, make them white now, and build up their sepulchres? And you're the one that put them in there." That's right. "Which one of you?"
They cried for help. God sent it to them, and they rejected it. Then what, is God to blame or is the people to blame? The people's to blame. Certainly.

L-59 When Jesus was born, that world, as I said, is falling apart. It was controlled by politics, and politics was corrupted in them days. The national church was corrupted. The Romans and Greeks were looking for a anointed messiah. The Greeks and Romans which probably had the best part of the world, and they were fighting one, among one another, so they--they was looking for some anointed messiah to come. And the Jews, they wanted a Messiah to come. And the Romans were looking for some great politician who could stand up in Rome, take over Greece and tell them how to do it, and Rome would rule the world. Greece wanted a great politician to stand up, anointed politician, a messiah, would say, "We'll--we'll take them Romans and the Jews, and the rest of them." See, that's what they were looking for. If that ain't the picture today, I don't know what it is. Right.

L-61 Politics wanted an anointed messiah. And the Jews was looking for a Messiah, and they wanted one who would come in not like they got; they wanted a general that would come in and stomp both Rome and Greece off the earth for them. That's the kind of messiah they wanted. They were praying for that kind of messiah. The Romans said, "Send us one. Let us vote somebody in that's anointed man, a man who understands, who's a wizard in politics. He will know just exactly the strategy to take Greece and all the rest of the world." The rest of the world was crying, "Send us someone who will we will be--will be so anointed with the genius mind that he will know how to take over the rest of the world."
Now, if that ain't the picture of this world today, I don't know it.
And the church, crying, "Send us a general to come down, and who will put every one of us in armor, and know how to use the sword, and tell us the strategy, and we will stomp Rome, Greek, and the rest of them off of the earth." That's the way they want to do: rule. That's the--the power.


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