<TITLE>06. Par 52-60</TITLE>L-52   And we find it that way in the time of the coming of the Lord Jesus. As I thought, bring in His life, to His birth and His ministry; then, tonight, His crucifixion. Whole thing begin to come corrupt. They made the Word of God of non-effect, by their traditions, so the whole world was falling apart. Every nation was looking for someone or some system that could bring them out of it, that's, to hold them together. They were so corrupted that they knowed they couldn't hold out the way there were going, and--and they was looking for something to hold them together.

L-53 If that isn't the picture of our world today, I don't know the world. It is. It's the picture of our world today. Everything is looking for a system or--or something to hold us together. It's a picture of it today. It was looking for some system or something that would keep it from falling apart. As it was then, so is it now, again. It's repeated again.

L-54   The religious world then was looking for a promised Messiah. The Jews all would tell you, very staunch believers, "Sure, we been, four thousand years, looking for a Messiah. And we believe that He--He's coming. Certainly, we believe it." The political world of that day were looking for a Messiah. And all the rest the nations, each one, was looking for the Messiah. And when He did come, they did to Him just like they did at other times.

L-55 They was looking for something to hold them together in the days of Noah. And when God sent them a messenger, what happened? They turned it down.

L-56 And they looking for it, all ages. That's the way it happens. They just... God will send it to them. And then they just... They turn it down. Because, why? It doesn't meet their taste. See? They--they don't want it the way God wants to send it. They want it the way they want it. They got it all figured out, the way it must be, and if it doesn't come that way, then, "It isn't of God." See? That's the way it's always been.

L-57   It's the same thing today. It doesn't come in the taste of our theological taste. But It comes in the way of the power of the demonstration of the manifestation of God's promise for the age. Exactly. But, yet, as it was then, they refuse It. They refused It then. They refused It today, because It doesn't meet the expectation of the day according to the way that people expect It.

L-58   God has an expectation. God knows what's going to happen, because He's infinite, so there's nothing going wrong. It's all going just exactly right, because He's infinite. And He can foretell the end from the beginning, because He's God. Don't think Satan is putting anything over on Him. Oh, no. Oh, no. It's just all working out to display His attributes, is all. How could a great infinite God, Who knowed everything, and let everything... It's just the attributes of God being displayed.
And you're displaying your life, to one side or the other.

L-59 And that's the reason our systems come in, and they can accept anything, is of the way of system, is just because that they get away from the original created way that God made for them to do it. His way of--of sending things sometimes don't meet our taste. Wonder, today, if God answered our cry for our Messiah that we cry today for, I wonder if we would do the same thing that they did back there.

L-60   Now, we're all looking for something. We know that, ever. Everyone is looking for something. I was listening, this crowd. I listen to businessmen. I go to the ministers. I go to the different denominations. Everybody is expecting something. The nation, hearing political talks, they're looking for something to come forth. What is it? I hear it in the Christian businessmen. I hear it in the conventions. "Oh, the great time a coming! The great time a coming!" Now, you just remember, it'll come in an altogether different way than you think it's coming. See? It won't be that at all, what you're thinking about. It never has been. See?


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