<TITLE>14. Par 95-105</TITLE>L-95   Good people caught in this thing, good people, sincere people. Like Mary and Joseph, they were very sincere, see, thinking He was with them, when He wasn't. Mary and Joseph, you know, when they was up to the feast, Jesus, the age of twelve, they thought, presuming, He was with them, but He wasn't. Good people today think the same thing, they, these people that's organized in this Council of Churches, these people in these organizations, they--they think they're doing a good thing. They're presuming He's with them, when they're not. See, many people think that He was with them when they shook hands with the preacher and put their name on the book, but He wasn't. Many people thought, when they were sprinkled, confirmed, baptized in name of "Father, Son, Holy Ghost," thinking He was with them. They're good people. Mary and Joseph was good people. But the facts was, He wasn't there! Don't presume anything.

L-96   What is Light? The vindicated, spoken Word of God! Outside of that, there's no Light. See? You can't lighten the earth with flashlights. It takes God's Word that's made manifest, the Son.

L-97 They were good people. Notice the accuracy of His Word, how perfect It is. Did you notice what Mary said? Now to you dear Catholic people, I've nothing against you. I've nothing against you. It's the system that you're in. And you Protestants, the same thing. It's the systems!

L-98 "Mary, mother of God"? Find out, a twelve-year-old Boy, of her own son, had to set her in order. There's not one time in the Bible where Jesus ever called Mary His "mother." She wasn't His mother. How could she be a mother of God? She was only a womb that He used to come to the earth, to be manifested to the earth, through the womb. There's nothing to her at all, not one Scripture ever said "mother."

L-99   Notice how Mary is so wrong, but His Word is so perfect. She said to Him when... She found Him in the temple, at twelve, discussing with the theologians. He astounded them, as a twelve-year-old Boy; not even in school, or, if it is, we have no record of it. But a twelve-year-old Lad confounding the--the sages in the temple, at His wisdom. She said, "Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears." "Thy father!" The mother herself, supposingly, said, "Thy father Joseph and I have sought Thee with tears."

L-100 What did He say to her? "Know ye not that I must be about My Father's business?" If He had been about Joseph's business, He'd a-been making houses, or in a carpenter's shop. But He wasn't Joseph's son. "I'm about My Father's business," correcting these denominations and creeds and things I hear of. See? "I'm about My Father's business." He never admitted Joseph was His father. But Mary did, and He turned back around and straightened her out.
She said, "Your father and I have sought You."

L-101 He said, "I'm about My Father's business," showing Joseph wasn't His father. His Words are perfect, see.

L-102   But Mary and them, just presuming that. Well, see what it was, she got carried away. She--she got... She wanted to show before these priest and things that--that--that she wasn't the type of woman. And she, in doing that, she absolutely tore the foundation out from under her testimony, after she had testified that an Angel had come to her, "And said, 'Thou shall conceive and bear a Son, knowing no man, a virgin-born Son.'" And here before the high Sanhedrin, she says, "Joseph, Your father here, and I, have sought You."

L-103 And that twelve-year-old Boy said, "I'm about My Father's business." He rebuked her, "That isn't My Father!"

L-104   See the church today, carried away with councils and--and things of the world, now she's blacked out. God is rebuking her!

L-105 Never did Jesus ever call her "mother." One day she came to visit Him at His meetings, in a house something like this. Someone come, said, "Outside the door there, Your mother and brothers wait for You."


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