<TITLE>05. Par 38-49</TITLE>L-38 Well, so is it in the hours that we live, when a man will cover himself up with some kind of a--of a excuse, to actually recognize the Gospel Light as It's shining forth as It is today. When a man deliberately turns away from It, goes into something and pulls down the curtain, say, "I don't believe It," there is something wrong with that person. There is just no way of getting around it. There is something wrong. Something has happened to him. And we find out that there is so, so much of that today.

L-39   Now, Jesus was all the inspired prophets' testimonies. And all their prophecy was brought to Light in His age, that had been prophesied for His age. He lit up every candle of Word that was in the Bible, that was prophesied of Him. "A virgin shall conceive." She did. All right. "His Name shall be called Counsellor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Everlasting Father." He was. "And the eyes of the blind shall see." They did. Everything that was prophesied of Him, happened when He come on earth.

L-40 And why the people could not see that, that was... It seems strange to us now, because we are looking back through a rear-view mirror. But did you ever know, if you keep looking back that way, you'll wreck? Let's look what's ahead for us.

L-41   That's what they were doing. The reason that they did that, because they were living in a glare of another light. There were living in the glare of the light of another day.

L-42 And that's what I believe is the matter with the world today, friends, is because we are trying to live in a glare of a light that shined in another day. A glare is a false light.

L-43 Just like a mirage on the road. We go down the road and see a mirage. It's a false conception of the sun. And when you get there, it hasn't produced a thing but something false. Because, you cannot walk in the glare of the sun, because it's a mirage, always showing you something there is nothing to.

L-44 And when people try to tell you that Jesus Christ isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever, they're leading you into a mirage. That's all. And when you get into church and join church, some cold creed or something like that, there is nothing there, no more than what you had in the world.

L-45   Let me tell you. Don't refuse the Light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which brings the warming rays of the Holy Ghost upon you, makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Don't try to walk in some glare of another age. Now, that glare might have been alright in the other age, it might a-been alright for them.

L-46 It proved so in the day of our Lord Jesus. He was the Scriptural Light of that day. He was the Light. He wasn't the Light until He come on the earth to vindicate the promised Word. You know, He said there, "John was a bright and shining light, and you loved to walk in his light for a season."

L-47 Certainly, because John had been prophesied by Isaiah, seven hundred and twelve years before his birth, that, "A voice of one would be crying in the wilderness." And then also Malachi, the last of the prophets, four hundred years before his coming, in the 3rd chapter of Mal-... of Malachi, he said, "Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way."

L-48 Here was John on earth, making that written Word live. He was the voice of one crying in the wilderness, and he alway... also was preparing the way before the Messiah. And Jesus said, "You loved to walk in his light, because He was that light, bright and shining light."

L-49 And John, he said, "Now I must decrease, my light must go out, because (why?) I have served my time that's prophesied of me. Hear ye Him! He is the One. Follow Him." It living in that day, it proved this.


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