<TITLE>09. Par 46-53</TITLE>L-46   Now, when Christ was born, Israel was again in captivity by the Roman Empire. And what was He? Born a peculiar Child, and odd, how He was raised up. How He went up into the mountains, and came down and said, "You've heard them say, them of old times, 'Thou shall not steal.' You heard them say, 'Thou shall not commit adultery,' but I say, whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery ready." A Law-Giver, see, and a King, a Priest, a Prophet, just exactly like him. So all these things had to be fulfilled, and when that space laying there for the life of the Messiah, when that was perfectly vindicated.
Now, this may be the last long lesson I teach for a while. I want you to get it close now.

L-47   When the Word has been spoken for this certain generation, there is going to be somebody rise on the scene that'll fulfill that Word, because God has spoke It. It's a vindication of the spoken Word. And Jesus met every qualification, and was the Word, vindicated as Messiah, exactly. There is also Words, spoken in the Bible, for the last day. Those Words have to come to life.

L-48   And we find here that, when in the days of our Lord, the church had already rejected Him before He come to Pilate's judgment hall. They had turned Him down, from the very day that His ministry started to prophesying and telling them a Truth about the Word. Then, they could not understand that, how Him, being a Man, could know what was in the people's hearts. Little did they know, that, the Word is God! "And the Word," the Bible said, "is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

L-49 And they wanted to call Him an evil spirit. He said, "I'll forgive you for that. But when the Holy Spirit comes to do the same thing, to speak a word against It will never be forgiven."
And all these things that He prophesied to be in this day, something has to bring that to life. But when It's brought to life, It'll be so much different than people thinks It is, till it'll--it'll only be the Elected will see It. Always, just the Elected is the only thing that'll see It, because It is elected and ordained to see It. Therefore, it cannot, no other way.

L-50   Jesus said, "You can't come to Me. No man can come except My Father draws him; and all that He has give Me will come to Me." See? See? So there was no way. He said, "You got eyes and you can't see; ears, you can't hear." Said, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you." See? Isaiah's prophecy springing up, being made manifest.
Don't forget that, here or a tape listener, that God's Word must be manifested. God is obligated to see that It does it.

L-51 Just as John the Baptist was foreordained to forerun the coming of Christ, there had to be some man rise up to take that place. That Word has to be fulfilled.

L-52   Then when Jesus come as the anointed Messiah, and done just exactly what the Word of God said He would do; and yet the Jews were looking for something else, "a King coming with a rod of iron in His hand," which was way in the future. But He fulfilled every Word.
There one day in Capernaum, when He picked up the Scripture and read, (did you notice?) He just read part of that Scripture. And then He laid the Book down, and said, "Today this is fulfilled."

L-53   When He was to preach the year of jubilee, now, why didn't He read the rest of It? Because It pertains to His other Coming. They had no need of knowing that. That's for the age that when He will come in.
But the age that He was in, that's the reason He could say, "This Scripture is fulfilled today in your eyes. Right here you see It. 'To preach the acceptable season, and bind up the brokenhearted, and heal the sick.'" That's what He come for.
The rest of It was--was to bring judgment to the Gentiles, and so forth, so that comes next. See, the Gentile had to reject Him, first.


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