<TITLE>18. Par 198-209</TITLE>L-198 {255-4} You know what Jesus said when He seen He--when He done them miracles before them and proved that He was God, proved that--that what He was doing, He was--He had done exactly. He--He said to them, He said, "Oh, you Capernaum, who is exalted into heaven, if the works had been--the mighty works had been done in Sodom that's been done in you, it'd be standing today." That's right.
And in Capernaum, He never done nothing but heal a few people and told them the secrets of their hearts and walked out. Yes. That's all. See, they don't know what mighty works are. They think it has to be a great big program where everybody gets up; and the judge makes a speech; and--and the bands playing, the colors fly, and the--and the well-dressed women and their... and tarrying, and all the Ph.D's, LL.D's, the big tall hats and turned-around collars and everything; they all have to walk in; that's something great. God said, "That's foolish." See?

L-200 {256-1} And He brings up a little something that don't know what-- difference between, maybe, abc's hardly and performs something that just sets the real Church afire; and the rest of them says, "A bunch of holy-rollers." God calls that great, and the world calls it foolish. The world calls that great, and God calls that foolish (See?), just vice versa. See? And the thing that God has promised, God will and has done. Here we are.

L-201 {256-2} Now, still she remains as she did, the Hebrew Eve. She just wouldn't do it. You could raise up the dead; you could see the Spirit of God. Jesus came down, vindicated Himself to be the Son of God. First He started preaching. Well, they thought, "Well, kinda odd like fellow. Who is he anyhow?"
Well, the first thing you know, people begin to say... Of course they'd said before when His forerunner come, John--they said, "Are you the Messiah?"
He said, "No, but He's standing among you somewhere." See? Why? He knowed when his message taken place what he was to do. He knowed what he was going to do.

L-204 {256-4} Just like Noah kept watching Enoch. When Enoch went, Noah said, "Better get close to the ark. The time is at hand." Noah kept watching Enoch (See?) and John watched for the sign that Jesus told him--or God told him to watch. He said, "He's standing right here now somewhere among you. I don't know Him, but I will know Him."
Standing there and they said, "Aren't you the Messiah?" Said, "We were sent from the headquarters." Said, "The--the elders and all sent us down here. If you are the Messiah, why don't you come up and make yourself known up there, not down here in this bunch of stuff down here. You come up there and make yourself known."
He said, "I'm not the Messiah." He said, "I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness."
That went far over their heads as it could go. They didn't know nothing about it (See?), and yet they was all looking for him to come; but it couldn't be a guy like that. Oh, my, that would be terrible.
"What school are you from?"
"None."
"Have you got your fellowship card?"

L-209 {257-1} "What is it?" See? He was anointed of God. He said, "There's one thing I have, the axe is laid to the root of the tree." Now... That's all he--that all he had. He talked in terms of a woodsman, not in the terms of a clergyman--vipers, axes, and trees and so forth. He--he didn't talk in ecclesiastical terms, but Jesus said there never was a prophet like him, never a man born of a woman like him till his day. That's right.
He was more than a prophet; he was the messenger of the covenant: stood right between the--the--the two dispensations coming in (See?), more than a prophet. And so then... Standing there, they didn't know him. They didn't understand him. He was kind of an odd like sort of fellow, so they just missed him. See?


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