<TITLE>08. Par 64-77</TITLE>L-64   And I wonder today, in our chaotic time, that if all of us reaching this place again, as we approach Christmas, we find the world about in the same condition; morally decayed, and politics is decayed, religious life is--is decayed, denominationalism is decayed, and everything is just corrupted. And all of us are looking for something to help us out of it. All of us are expecting a messiah.

L-65 I wonder, if God sent us the Messiah, if we wouldn't just about do the same thing they done in the past. We wouldn't know Him, wouldn't know Who He was. I don't think the world would recognize Him, at all.

L-66   And notice why. Here is my thought, the reason why. The Romans, they had their idea of what a messiah should be. Each one of us has got our own ideas; each denomination has its ideas. We've been taught, drawed out on charts and everything, what the Messiah should be, how it's going to be, "Our church is the one that's going to receive It." Well, the Jews, the Pharisees thought that, and so did the Sadducees thought their side. Same thing, you see. Spirits doesn't die; just the man that's occupied. See? That, the Devil doesn't take his spirit, he only takes the man. And the good thing about it, God doesn't take His Spirit, neither, see, It remains; just the man. Same Spirit that was upon Christ is upon the believer today, the true believer.

L-67   Now notice, the Romans in that day were looking for a--a messiah, a--a politician. They wanted somebody to come down from Jupiter, or someone to come down with a chariot of fire, and--and a sun behind his head, and he'd draw the chariots across the sky. And wanted Jupiter to come down and give them the gimmick, the military secret how they could stomp out the whole world. That's what they wanted to do. They wanted to beat down the Greeks, and--and master the whole world. That's the kind of messiah they wanted.

L-68 Well, the Greeks wanted that kind of a messiah to come and tell them just exactly the kind of a strategy that they could use to beat the Romans down. See, that's the kind.

L-69   And the Jews, they were looking for a General, some man that was coming with a rod of iron in his hand, and a Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and he was going to rule all nations; and run Rome out into the river and drown them, and--and--and Israel was going to take over. That's the reason. When He come exactly the way the Scripture said He would come, but they was looking for Him in a different way.

L-70 I wonder if it wouldn't be the same thing today, if He come, if we wouldn't think that. We have our own ideas about what He ought to be, and what He ought to look like, and how He should wear His clothes, and part His hair, and everything. If it isn't just our taste, why, we wouldn't receive it, you see; I mean, we, the world today, see. All right.

L-71 They--they, the Jews, they rejected the Messiah, because that He didn't fit their taste. He didn't.

L-72   A few days ago, a fine tailor out in Tucson was cutting some trousers for me. And he was Jewish. And I heard his broken English, and--and I said, "What are you, Jewish?"

L-73 He said, "Yes, sir." And he said, "I suppose you're a Christian?"

L-74 I said, "Yes, sir." So he went ahead fixing on my trousers. And I thought, "I'll let him lead next."

L-75 And he said, "Well," he said, "I have nothing against you Christians."

L-76 I said, "Thank you, sir. I have nothing against you." And he said, he said the... I said, "What's your opinion of Christ?"

L-77 He said, "He came too early, and they said He was too young for the job."
And I said, "Yes, sir."


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