<TITLE>09. Par 75-85</TITLE>L-75   Now we'd have to go back, to watch. We know we wouldn't find Him as--as a--a great educator. We don't even have any record of Him ever going to school. And we... He wouldn't be a different dressed man, because He went in and out men, among men, rather, and never... Why, people didn't know Him, all of them dressed alike. He didn't dress like a priest. He didn't dress like a religious man. He dressed just like an ordinary man. And--and then for His...

L-76 We find out that the Bible wrote in such common language, He must have used the grammar that was used out on the street, just a common people. Because, the Bible said, "The common people heard Him gladly," see, so maybe the intellectuals could not associate themselves in such a common Person that spoke with drawls, and so forth, that perhaps He did. So, it was a little too much for them. It is yet, today.

L-77 And that's the reason the Bible become such a--a problem to people, because, it's, they try to interpret It by the higher type of language, when It was wrote in a street language, you see. The...

L-78   So, God humbles Himself. God is humility. "The man that can humble himself is on his road up. He that exalts himself is on the road down," always. So we must remember that Christianity is not pushing ahead, and trying to get ahead of this fellow, but stepping back and taking the back seat, you see, letting the other fellow go on, that's--that's Christianity. Humble yourself. "If they sue you at the court, and takes your coat, give him the cloak also. If he compels you go a mile, go two. If he smites one cheek, turn the other." He was our example in every way what we should be. And if that Life can reflect in us, people will see Christ in you, you see, when--when they can see that.

L-79   Well, now let's see, there might have been many men. Jesus was different than all men. There might have been many men who could be humble, and go the second mile, or turn the other cheek, but we find that Jesus was a different Person.

L-80 Now, God has always stayed with His Word. Remember, He never changes His Word.

L-81   As I said, a few moments ago, about the blood. In the garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve had sinned, and God had to keep His law because He was just. And the penalty of the law was, well, He had to place upon that family, because, "The wages of sin is death, and you're going to die." But then when they become some kind of a something, He'd have an emancipation proclamation, He--He decided that it took blood. Adam and Eve tried to make a fig leaf apron; it wouldn't work. So, He required blood.

L-82 And He has never changed. He never changes. Now when it come time a person was sick and wanted to be healed by God, God healed him upon the basis of his faith in Him. He has never changed it. It's still the same, just the same.

L-83   And any Word that God says, It can never be changed. Now that's the reason I believe the Bible is just the way It's written. See, It can never be changed. We can't find nothing better; God cannot. He is infinite. We are finite. We make mistakes, and tomorrow we know more than we knowed today. But not God; He is--He is the Eternal, and infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. He, He just... He is God. If He isn't those things, then He isn't God, see, He is finite like we are. So we must remember that He is God, and His Words are, that's part of Him. You've heard them say, "Every man is just as good as his word." That's true. God is no better than His Word.

L-84   Jesus always referred back to the Father's Word, constantly, all the time. "It is written. It is written." That's how He defeated Satan, on the Word. "It is written." Now we find Him when He was...

L-85 He came in the power of the Scripture, exactly the interpretation of the Scripture. But the people of that day, that was looking for Him to come, missed Him, because they had an interpretation, that they could not go from that interpretation. They must have it their way.


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