<TITLE>19. Par 212-222</TITLE>L-212 {257-3} Then when Jesus come then, and surely they wasn't going to accept Him, this carpenter's boy (There wasn't nothing like that) with a black name behind Him of illegitimacy. He... They wouldn't go to see a Fellow like that.
But--but look what God did. He took the unlearned poor fishermen, woodsmen, farmers, and harlots and left the dignitaries set there. Why? What... Why did He do it? Why did He do such a thing? (Could you imagine?), because that them people recognized Him to be the Word.

L-213 {257-5} Now, let's just watch them just a minute. Here's an old ignorant fisherman, can't write his name. The Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. He brings his fish up and sets it down, goes down there and sees what all this noise is about, but way down deep in him he knew that the Bible said that the Messiah... All Hebrews look for the Messiah, because there was to be a Scriptural thing happen when He come.

L-215 {257-6} There'd been a lot of messiahs raise up and said, "I'm He," and led them off by the hundreds, and--and perished and everything; but see, that was to throw off the real One when He comes. We've had Elijah's mantles and coats and every other thing, but that--that's--that's just to throw off the real thing when He does come. See? That's right. All kinds of people that's wore the robes and the garments and been buried in all kinds of hoods turned around and everything else... That don't... That just only vindicates. Like a bogus dollar shows there's a good one somewhere if you can just find it. See? So here He come.
Now, these dignitaries come out, and they was so on their substitutes, "Why," they said, "now, if the Messiah comes, he will certainly come to Caiaphas. He will come to our denomination. He will come to the Pharisees."
The Sadducees: "That's what you think; He will come to the Sadducees."

L-217 {258-1} There they was (See?), the same thing they have today. See? Now, but when He come, it was strange. He would come, oh, very contrary to what they thought, but He come according to the Word, and they didn't know the Word.
Let me say that real, so you'll--it'll sink way down. I want us to get it: That's what is the matter with you today. See? You don't know the Word.
Jesus said, "You can discern the face of the skies, but the signs of time you can't discern."
Said, "We have Moses..."
Jesus said, "If you'd knowed Moses, you'd knowed Me." That's right. See? Didn't know Moses, and therefore they didn't know. They just knowed creed that they'd hatched out.

L-222 {258-4} Now, let's take this old fisherman. Sets his basket down, pushed his gray beard down, walks down, "I believe I'll see who it is."
His brother said, "Come on. Let's go down here. That's that same guy; the guy they said the other day. I stayed all night with Him last night. You know John and I was talking about?"
"Yeah, that wild man down there? Yeah, I heard about him."
Well, a--a--old Simon, you know, said, "I heard about him down there. Yeah, been down there--two or three months ago down there, yep."
"Well, he said... And one day he was standing there and he said an odd thing. He said, 'You know, here He comes right now.' They said, 'How do you know?' He looked over there, and there was an ordinary Fellow standing there. He said, 'I see the Spirit of God like a dove coming down on Him. I hear a voice saying, "This is Him. This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell in.' Then he walked right in the water and baptized Him and so forth. Well there, he said he knew Him."
"Oh, I don't know," Simon said. "I've heard all of that lots of times." But here he comes up; but down in his heart was a predestinated seed. Jesus said so. That's right. He walks up to Him. Walks up and said, "I'll go down to the meeting and see."


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