<TITLE>22. Par 211-217</TITLE>L-211 And now if He would come again today, He would be a--a Word of God, manifested Word of God, vindicated Word of God, God living among us. That's the Messiah. He promised it. Amen. He would be that Pillar of Fire again. He would be the same Messiah that led Israel. Amen. He would be the same Messiah. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Sure, they would turn It down like they always did. Certainly. Oh, 'cause they want to build a great nation.

L-212   We want to build a great church body. Today, we are thinking about, we want a great general church. All right, you're going to get it. You wanted a united church. You're going to get it. You're going to get it. Why do they want it like that? If the Messiah would come, He would never set nothing like that in order. He would be against it. Sure, He would. But what do they want it for, what's the reason it has to come that way? They want one man that can stand up and dictate the whole thing. You're going to get it, exactly right. You will receive him, because he is coming. "Another one will come, and you will receive him," Jesus said. And they will, they will receive him. Why do they want to do that? People are wanting to, things their own way.

L-213   The Messiah would come, He would just shuck the feathers off of you. Talk about some preacher skinning down women and men, He would really skin them down. He did when He come; He said, "You generation of vipers, you snakes in the grass, you are of your father, the Devil." If that Messiah would return in this polluted time, He would do the same thing again. God would vindicate His work just like He did in the beginning, with the same kind of signs and wonders. He certainly would do it, if He returned again. If we got that Messiah, be just like He was in the first time, because it couldn't be nothing else. The Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." He is always the Word.

L-214   But what are we wanting? We wouldn't want that kind of a Messiah. No, no. We want to be something like the world. And what the people are trying to do, they want a Messiah that will let them live and--and do anything they want to, and act like the world and live in the world, and still hold their Christian profession. Right. You can't do that! "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you," Jesus said. Yes, sir. But that's the kind of messiah the world wants. That's the reason they won't receive God's Messiah. It won't do it.

L-215 This is His Messiah, exactly, His Word is His Messiah. That Messiah in you does the works that the Word says it does. It reproduces Christ, 'cause Christ is in you. His Life is in you, and It does just exactly what He is supposed to do, like He always did it; same way He did it, the same things that He did, because He is the same. That's the Messiah that God sends.

L-216   The Messiah the world wants, is just let them do anything they want to, and get by, "Oh, that's all right." Oh, these women across the country! These, you want it. Yeah, you, you was. You want your French dressing and all the big things. You got it. You've got a modern Ahab and Jezebel, and it fashioned the church. That's right. I'm not talking politics. I'm talking Truth. Do you know this nation is just exactly like Israel? It done the same thing.

L-217 Israel come in and drove the occupants out of that nation, and took it. God gave it to them. And what did they do? They drove out the occupants of the nation, and took it. First, they had great kings, like David and Solomon. And after a while, there raised up a man, called Jezebel... or--or Ahab, and he married Jezebel, and she was one of these little painted-face flappers. And, when he did, she was the one controlled him. She told him what to do. He might have been the head, but she was the neck and she told him what to do.


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