<TITLE>17. Par 211-223</TITLE>L-211 And that's the way that this whole nation has got. It's got an intellectual conception of Christ. That's what they look for. "And if Christ is in you, you've got to be a scholar, you got to be an intellectual," 'cause that's what they think Christ is.

L-212   And another time, another thing, they form their own 'pinions of what He ought to be, their own idea, instead of taking what the Word said. That's the way when they look, and even see Jesus Himself, they fail to recognize Him. They did it on the Day of Pentecost. They did it when It was in flesh. They did it when He was in the manger. They did it when He was on the streets of Jerusalem. They did it when He was on the cross. And He was the fulfillment of that Word. And, yet, they had the Messiah coming down on a corridor out of Heaven, and everything else, and was wrong, because it was their intellectual conception. And they failed to see Him, and, looking right at Him. So is it today!

L-213   What do you see when you look? Some look to see, when they look at Him, they look to see some great intellectual church founder, somebody who can really produce a creed that will cause all the people to fall for this creed, something another. That's what they look when they see Him.

L-214 Some look to see a myth, like Santa Claus, when they look. They read the Bible, and say, "Ah, that's a mythical thing. It's just something that man wrote. That's what, they, 'cause when they..." What opinion you take of the Bible, is what you take of Him. See?

L-215 Some look to see a baby. Some look and see a--a rabbit or a Santa Claus. Some look to see some historical book that was yesterday and not today.
But, the question is, what do you see when you look?

L-216   So many of you, that claim to have the Holy Ghost, look and see the second person of a trinity. When, it's not even mentioned in the Bible. There is no such a thing. The word trinity is not even in the lids of the Bible. But, yet, when you look at Jesus, you regard Him as the third person or the second person of a trinity, and that's the reason you don't get nowhere.

L-217 You know what He said? "I am God, and there is none other besides Me." See?

L-218 Depends on what you're looking at. If you want to put some little mascot boy, an old man with beard, and so forth; if that's the way you look at Jesus as being some different person from God, you're looking wrong. You don't see It.

L-219   Here not long ago, I had a pair of field glasses. I was trying to watch some antelope, or an antelope over in a field. And my son was trying to show me, and he is quite a bit younger. So he said, "Take them glasses, daddy! There stands the antelope, right out there!"
I said, "I can see him with my natural eye."
He said, "Take these glasses."

L-220 When I looked, I seen about ten antelopes, but the glasses was out of focus. And when I went to focus them in, all ten of them become one.

L-221 And if you will focus your mind to God's Word, the three will be One. See? But your ecclesiastical glasses get out of focus when you try to make Him three. He is One. See?

L-222   But it depends on what you are looking at. What do you see when you do look? Remember, you can only see Him as you look at Him through the Word. You can't look at Him through a textbook. You can't look at Him through a creed. You will see two or three gods, and everything else, in them creeds. But look at Him through the Word, and you'll see that He is "Emmanuel, 'God made flesh among us.'" He said, "I am God, and besides Me there is none other." He is God.

L-223   Isaiah looked one time, the prophet, and when he seen Jesus... My subject is, "looking to Jesus." Look Away To Jesus. When Isaiah looked away from the world, to see Him, he said, "I see a Counselor, a Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father." That's what Isaiah looked away and saw.


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