<TITLE>13. Par 74-79</TITLE>L-74   Now, you see, like Nicodemus came by night, and he said, "Master, we know that You're a teacher comes from God. We know that Thou comest from God. No man can do these things that You do except God be with Him. We..." Who is "we" he's talking of? The church, the Pharisees, the leaders of that day. "We know. We are thoroughly convinced that You're that Person." Why then couldn't they do it? Because, their system. I want that to soak real deep, 'cause that's what I'm getting to. See? The system that they had already joined themselves into, was the one that they couldn't move. Though they did see that That was Messiah, but the system that they was connected with would not let them accept It.
Do you--you understand? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now I want to ask, from this visible audience, how many understands what I'm speaking of? Raise your hands. All right.

L-75   Now, a system! They believed It, and they knowed It was. How I'd like to say that same thing today! We see what's supposed to be here today, and we see It, but the system won't let them accept It. They are so indocumated with the system! See, it isn't the person, it is the system.
Just as I have spoke of the President that was just assassinated. Not the man; far as I know, he's a good man, he never done anything evil as I know of. But it's the system. It isn't the people; it's the system.

L-76 It wasn't the Jews; it was their system. That system condemned Him, because It didn't tolerate with their system. Do you understand? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, the same things takes place now. And they chose this public enemy, a murderer.
But the issue now has involved the government. So the government has to pronounce this sentence, because, to take a life, it must come before the government. They wasn't allowed to do that, because they were under the--the rulership of Rome, and they couldn't take a life no matter how much their church said, "We got to do it." Why, they--they couldn't do it without, first, Rome giving them the sanction to it. So, it has to be brought before the government. Now the government is involved in the thing.
Now, if that isn't a picture of today, I don't see what. See, just exactly!

L-77   The church turns It down, now it's the government involved. The time had come where the nation, of all, whole, had to come. The issue was made. The showdown was at hand. The whole nation had rejected Him, and the bringing down the wrath of God upon them. And before the... Even the church had rejected Him, that would bring the wrath upon the church. But now the nation has rejected Him, to bring the wrath upon all.
And, today, the world has rejected Him, to bring judgment to the entire world. All nations must be judged.

L-78   And we know that that happened in the time of the great Roman general, Titus. He besieged Jerusalem, and then finally just... They eat one another's children; eat the bark off the tree, and the grass off the ground. And--and then Titus rode right in and just tore down the walls and burnt the city, and the blood run down--down the streets like that, where he murdered them in there.
And it had to. Before a just God could let a people, that He had chosen, to come under such a thing as that, there--there has to be a just reason. He is just. His--His laws demand His justice. And a law without penalty is not law.

L-79 If I would say, made a law here in the city, "It's a--a--a fine to run a red light," and then there's no penalty to it, you'd just keep on running red lights. But there's got to be a penalty.
And the penalty of God's law, to reject His program, is death. And there had to be a death, so it had to be paid.


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