<TITLE>18. Par 179-185</TITLE>L-179 But the theologians had it all figured out, their way, and they missed Him a hundred miles. But He never come contrary to the Word. He came according to the Word. But why didn't they receive Him? Because He didn't come the way they thought He ought to come. That's exactly the way they missed Noah. That's the way they missed Moses. That's the way they missed it, all down through the age.

L-180   They fail to see the simplicity of God doing something. See? God hides Himself there. And He just goes over the top of the--of the wise and prudent, because He's so big. See? You take two objects coming together, like this, and when they pass one another, you see what I mean? That's the way God can do. He can be so simple till He can go so far away from somebody till they can't even find where He's at. Amen. I like that. I'm glad He made it that way, then I can--I can accept it. Because, there's some scholarship, I wouldn't know what to do with it. But He made it so simple, people like me could understand it, or believe it. So, I'm so thankful for that.

L-181   Now, the Messiah was told, how He would come, where He'd be born, what He would do, what His ministry would be, and what time He would arrive. But, by the time He arrived, those ministers and clergymen of that day had so many traditions, and they thought just exactly how He would come. And the Pharisee says, "If He ever comes, He will be a Pharisee." The Sadducee says, "Nonsense; not with that bunch of self-righteous. He will be a Sadducee." But when He come, He was neither one. He never asked their... God didn't have to ask their... a part of their wisdom, how to send His Son.

L-182   He sent it in the way that He said He would do it. He come according... And He brought... And when you talked about their Messiah being announced in a stable, over a manure pile, in a cow barn; could a polished-up bunch of Pharisees, self-righteous, highfaluting hypocrites expect such a thing as their Messiah to come in a stable? Well, what was it? It was Jehovah, little Jehovah crying as a baby. Could they expect that terrible Jehovah, that thundered off of Mount Sinai, that set the mountain on fire, that opened the Red Sea, become a Baby in a stable? Oh, that, their theology couldn't swallow that. No, indeedy, not their Messiah.

L-183 They said, "When God sends the Messiah, of no doubt, He will lower the corridors of Heaven down. He will have a ten-million Angel salute come down. He will come right to the temple that Moses left for us, or Solomon built for us here. And He will come right straight to this temple, and He will accept us right here. And our high priest that we have chosen, our chief man, our state representative, or whatever it is, He will come to him and say, 'I have arrived. Here I am. This is Me. I'm the Messiah. Don't you recognize Me? See, the corridor will come down. I come from Heaven.'" That's the way they had it figured out.

L-184   But when He come, He was in a barn, born by a mother that... and a father that had a--a illegitimate background to it, seemed to be, as they thought. Wrapped in His swaddling clothes, they tell me, was off of the yoke of an ox, that poor. The God that created heavens and earth, and made everything by Christ Jesus; and here was the very Creator, God, Who made the very heavens and earth, laying in a stable, in a bunch of straw that He had created, Himself. The Creator of heavens and earth humbled Himself, to become the lowest. The Highest becoming the lowest, that's what made Him God. That's what made Him what He was. See, He humbled Himself. Man couldn't do that.

L-185   You put a man up, just give him a--a little pull in the organization, brother, you can't get by him. That's all there is to it. He's just the boy! He's puffed up like a frog eating shot. You couldn't--you couldn't do nothing with him. But, but, you see.


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