<TITLE>07. Par 64-75</TITLE>L-64 We, we would look for somebody that's, well, perhaps with a long robe, and a beard on his face, and nail scars in his hand, and thorn prints on his--on his brow? If you would look for a person like that, any hypocrite could deceive you on that. That's right, impersonation. A man could paint scars on his hands, and he could even prick himself with thorns and make the scars, but any impersonator could do that.

L-65   But then if we wasn't looking for that type of a man, not for his dress or what his stature were. Because, if He was here, He would be dressed like we are. There wasn't any difference. He dressed and walked among man just the way man was. He never dressed like the clergy of that day. He just dressed in the common street dress. So He would just be dressed commonly, probably with a suit on, and so forth, like any other man today would wear. Like the working man, or the--the business man, or whatever more, that would be the way He would be dressed. So you never know Him that way. You would never know Him by a figure of stature, whether He was tall, thin, short, heavy; or, we, we don't know, so you would never know.

L-66   But I say what He would be, if He was here today, He would be the Word of God. That's exactly what He was, and He still is. He is the Word, not only the written Word (He is the written Word), but the manifestation of the written Word. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." God, the Word, was manifested in flesh, in order that His Words might be spoke through human lips and become Word. And He was manifested in flesh, that was Jesus Christ, God, Emmanuel.
Now you say, "Is He the Word?"

L-67 Saint John, the 1st chapter, tells us, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."

L-68   What was some of the things that He would do? We find out, in Hebrews, the 4th chapter and the 12th verse, the Bible said that, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, and It's a discerner of the thoughts of the heart." The Word is. So the Word is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. That would qualify Jesus, exactly, being the Word. He knowed the thoughts that was in their heart. Hebrews 4:12.

L-69 Now if we wanted to identify Him, would we expect Him to be some Doctor of Divinity? There is no record of Him ever being in a school.

L-70   Could we identify Him with any denomination? He come in the time that there was many denominations, but He never affiliated Himself with any of them. So we couldn't say He was a Pharisee, or a Sadducee, or so and so forth. We couldn't identify Him with any certain denomination.

L-71 He come for the people. God, being God of all, He is the God of the whole creation. He died to save sinners in every church, to--to heal every sick person. He come to accept those who would accept Him.

L-72 That's the same way He is here tonight, to heal those who accept Him, to save those who will accept Him. He comes in the same form, in the same way.

L-73 If He come, He would have to come in a Scriptural identification. If He did not identify Himself... There is no place we could find in the Bible, in the Old Testament, but what He correctly identified Himself with the Scripture, so much that He said, "Who, which one of you can condemn Me of sin?"

L-74   Now, we all know that sin is, "unbelief." "He that believeth not is condemned already." Now, sin is the attribute of unbelief. Smoking cigarettes is not a sin. Stealing is not a sin. Lying is not a sin. Committing adultery is not a sin.
"What is it then?" you would say.

L-75 It's the attributes of unbelief. If you were a believer, you would not do those things. The reason you do it, proves that you're an unbeliever. See? There is only two factions, that's, either you are a believer or not a believer.


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