<TITLE>20. Par 251-262</TITLE>L-251 He challenged the people of His day to do the same. They couldn't see Him. He said, "You blind leaders of the blind. You claim Moses to be your prophet. If you would a-knowed Moses, you would know Me. Moses wrote about Me." And they were too blind to see It. Looking right at It, and too blind to see It.

L-252 I'm dove-tailing that "glare," this morning, for a few minutes, you see. They're looking, and don't know what they're looking for, because they've got the wrong conception of what they're trying to find. How would you know what you wanted to find, if you didn't know what you was looking for?

L-253   How would you go hunt for a pumpkin, and you had never seen one and never heard of one? How would you go find a watermelon, if you never knowed there was such a thing, and how it looked? Why, you could find a tub, and think it was a watermelon. You could find something else, you could find a block, and think it was a watermelon.

L-254 But you've got to know what you're looking for. And the only way that you'll ever know what you're going to, what you're looking for; if you're looking for Jesus, you will look to the Word, for He is the Word. "They are They that testify of Me. Search the Scriptures."

L-255 "You claim you're... are the believers of the prophets, but you're of your father the devil. Your fathers, who claim; when God sent the prophets to them, he put them in the grave. They--they kill the prophets. Every one that come," Jesus said, "which one of them your fathers didn't stone? And the works of your father you'll do." Amen! Righteous men, holy men, a man that you couldn't put a finger on, and yet He called them "serpents and devils." See?

L-256 What you looking for? If you're looking for some pious person? Some people thinks that because the Holy Spirit worked through you, you'd have to be some long, pious fellow, walk around and not even... That's not the Holy Spirit. God don't deal through angels like that, or supposed to be. God deals through men. The Bible said, "Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are," but you couldn't be with him till you seen Jesus.

L-257   Peter and John, at the gate called Beautiful. And when they pulled them up there about healing that man, "They had perceived that they were ignorant, unlearned, but they also perceived that they had been with Jesus," see, because His Life was reflecting through them.
Now, depends on what you're looking for.

L-258   The woman had read the Bible. She knowed there was a coming Messiah, and she knowed what that Messiah would do. And as soon as Jesus said to her, "Bring me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary." He's just a ordinary man.

L-259 Now, if He had been sitting there with a great big turban on, and all kinds of ornaments over Him, of--of some holy person, why, the woman would have said, "Well, there's a priest," and went on. Or, "There is some kind of a rabbi," went on.

L-260   Minister, something another; I seen a man come to eat, today, where I went to eat. And that fellow come in, he--he had enough crosses and things on him; it's a good thing sometimes them fellows have that. I think you ought to live a life. You don't have to have a lot of clergy clothes, to prove what you are. Sometimes they drink, and carry on so much, and smoke cigarettes, and everything, they have to wear clergy clothes to even know whether they're a minister or not. That's right.

L-261 I tell you, the clergy clothes for a man to wear is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That'll identify you as being with Jesus!...?...

L-262 Now, we find out, that depends on what you're looking for. A well-dressed, well-groomed, some kind of a turban; you'll never see Him, because He was just an ordinary man. God deals with man. Jesus was a man; God was in the man, and He was God.


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