<TITLE>10. Par 89-99</TITLE>L-89   See, they asked for a General, and got a Baby. God knowed what they had need of. That's right. They asked for a General, and got a Saviour. Although they thought they were saved, but God's visit to them showed that they wasn't.

L-90 Maybe that's a whole lot what's the matter today. The world thinks they're saved, by joining church, but they need a Saviour just the same today. If that isn't the picture of the world today, I don't know the world.

L-91 That's just about the way it is at this Christmas, again we find the same thing, the world falling apart. If you go to this, that's gone. If you go to this, that's gone. It's got that way so that we will come to This. See, it--it takes all the props out from under us, so that we can--we can have to come to the only resource there is, and that's Eternal Life.

L-92 It's now looking today, as it was then, for some system to hold it together. As it was then, it is now again falling apart. And the religious world then was looking for a promised Messiah to do this.

L-93   And God keeps His promise. He never fails to keep His promise in all ages. When the world was falling apart, in the time of Noah, God sent them a mighty prophet. What did they do with it? Turn it down. What is a prophet? The one the Word comes to, is the Word of God again. In the time of--of Noah, they sent it. In Moses' time, the whole system was falling apart, they sent a prophet. In Elijah's time, the whole system was falling apart, they sent a prophet. Every time, when the world gets in this chaos, they send a prophet. And then at this first Christmas, He sent the Word in Its fulness, see, the Word! A portion of the Word in a prophet, prophet had the Message for that age, and he went forth.

L-94   Given a prophet, and what did they do with them each time? Stone them (they didn't agree with their systems) and put them to death. Jesus said, "You do garnish the walls of the prophets, the tombs, and your fathers put them in there. And you testify that, that you're their children." See, they do it. It's just too bad, but that's--that's the world. See, it's always, God sends His Word, and wisdom tries to verse the Word.

L-95 That's the way it was at the beginning. The very thing started the whole system of sin was because somebody, Eve... Satan produced a better plan than God's; he produced wisdom. They eat from the tree of knowledge.

L-96 Wisdom always takes you away from God. Faith brings you back to God. You don't know God by your great wisdom. You... It's no good. It's of the world. It's foolishness to God. "But it pleased God, through the foolishness of preaching His Word, to save the lost." See? So God always used something foolish and simple.

L-97   When He called His disciples, if He would have chosen Caiaphas and the great priests that they had trained for that hour, there had been something to brag on. They had their doctor's degree and everything. But He goes down and gets ignorant men, fishermen who couldn't even read their own name or write their own name, that He might take nothing and make something out of it.

L-98 Even the great Saint Paul said he had to forget all he ever knowed, that he might find Christ. He told the Corinthian church, "I never come to you with the excellency of words and wisdom of this world, because you'd build your faith in that."

L-99   And look, today, people don't want a pastor unless he can talk just proper and make all of his nouns and pronouns. And if that be so, I couldn't get in no pulpit, 'cause I don't even know what a difference between a noun and a pronoun. And the only thing that I know, is, I know Him. And that's all that I care to know, for He is my--He is my Noun and Pronoun, He is my Life. Now the thing we want to know is Him. But you see our religious system has adopted the educational system, and took the place of the Holy Spirit. That's what it's done.


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