<TITLE>11. Par 109-124</TITLE>L-109   We could go on and on, with characters. But, let's just think this, don't miss seeing your well now. Don't miss seeing the spot of refreshment that brings Life.

L-110 Jesus was sent from Herod to... from Pilate to Herod, for mockery. What he missed! What, what was the matter with Pilate?

L-111 And then when Pilate sent Jesus to Herod, and then how foolish Herod was. When, he heard of Him, and he had heard of His ministry. And Pilate being a Jew... Or, Herod, I believe it was, Herod was a Jew. And standing there before Him! And there he was, standing in the Presence of all the prophets had prophesied about, from Eden out. Standing in the Presence, and he never asked pardoning of his sin. He never--he never--he never... Wonder if he even thought, he took a second thought, of what, Who he was standing before? He never probably knew Whose--Whose Presence he was standing in.

L-112 Oh, you say, "That was--that was a horror! That was the most foolish thing." It was. It was the most foolish thing that the man ever done. Well, we think of--of how bad off he was.

L-113   But wait a minute. We have men today do the same thing, stand by the same Fountain, and still make the same mistake that he did.

L-114 All the prophets, for four thousand years had pointed to Him. But because He didn't come in the way of their creeds, said He would come, they cast him out.

L-115 There, exactly right. It's exactly right. Yes, sir. Still cast Him out. They don't want nothing to do with it, 'less it comes according to their book, you know, the way that their textbook reads it, you see. It has to come that way.

L-116 Oh, all the prophets through four thousand years had spoke of Him, and here He stood before him, and he never said a thing about, ask for pardoning. There he is in the Presence, and the--the fulfillment of all of the words of the Hebrew prophets, standing right before him, and he never asked for pardon. He just stood there. Oh, that was a terrible thing!

L-117   But we do the same today. Only, we stand by Him, after six thousand years. We make a greater mistake than Herod, and Pilate, and--and Caiaphas, and the priests of that day, because we got two thousand more years of record added. And we still make that same mistake. Just, I just...

L-118 I suppose that--that Herod never even give it a serious thought.

L-119 Now, I just wonder how serious we think about This. How serious do you try to consider this Word? What does that Word mean to you? Do you know that is God in print form? But we ride right over it, for some sort of a creed, and say, "Days of miracles is past. Dr. Jones said so-and-so, so that settles it." And, yet, this Bible laying in every book store, pretty near, Bible stand, churches. And ministers, and so forth, standing there, and read over the top of it, and ignore it, because of creed, try to place it back in some other age.

L-120   As I've made the remark, two or three times since being in Phoenix, it struck me so. Men are that way. They always praise God for what He has done, and looking forward what He will do, and ignoring what He's doing right now. They do it. They fail to see it.

L-121 Now, perhaps Herod could have praised God for what He brought the children out of the wilderness, so forth. And they said, "Someday He will send a Messiah. Glory to God! We'll see Him then." And here He was, standing right before them, and they never knew Him.

L-122 "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. But as many as did receive Him, to him... gave them the power to become sons of God." I like that. Yes, sir.

L-123   There in His Presence, I suppose he never took a serious thought about it.

L-124 And many today do the same thing, don't take it seriously. They don't take a serious thought. They think, "Now here, I go to church, and I'm just as good as you are."


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