<TITLE>16. Par 180-193</TITLE>L-180   So was the Hebrews right in what they was saying about Jesus Christ, see, but it was according to their shadow that they were walking in. It was a glare of another day, not the light of that day. Could the history repeat itself again? The Bible says it does, see. Now we find out that there was...

L-181 It was strange that God choose this one little, uneducated, unaffiliated with them, to show and bring those people the Word; instead of that school, of fine, cultured, educated man, smart. He chose Micaiah. That's a paradox. Uh-huh. Sure was. And it happened just the way Micaiah said it would happen, because he had the Word of the Lord. It's always been that way. Yes, sir.

L-182   John the Baptist was another one. You know, we don't have very much record of where prophets come from, so forth, spiritual man. See?

L-183 Man pick man, like they picked Matthais, and so to take Judas' place. We don't hear very much about him. God chose Paul. See? See? That was God's choosing, and the church's choosing. See?

L-184 And the same thing, man who are filled with the Spirit, are usually man who try to run from the thing, get away from it. They don't want to do it. But God just takes it, and says, "I'll show you. I'll make you do it."

L-185 Paul tried to run. Others tried to run. Many tried to do it. Moses tried to get away from it.

L-186   We don't have much record of John. His father was a priest. It was a tradition in them days for the son to follow the father, his trade. But when John was born, a funny, odd, phenomenal birth, when he was conceived in his mother's womb. We know the story of Zacharias, and how the Angel said his wife would conceive. And when we find out that that's what taken place, six months, the baby hadn't moved.

L-187 And Mary was visited by Gabriel, and went up in Judaea, to salute her, because Gabriel told her that she was pregnant. And when she got up there, she told her, she said she had hid herself. And when she met Mary, they put her arms around Mary and begin to hug her, as women do (really Christian women, believers), begin to hug her. And she said... she seen she was big, to be mother, and she said, "You know, the Angel of the Lord told me I was to be mother, too." And Mary, Martha... Pardon me.

L-188   Elisabeth said that she was kind of worried. She said, "Because, it's six months now, and the baby hadn't moved." That's irregular, see. Baby is practically, what we call, today, "dead," see, as good as dead in his mother's womb. "Six months." It troubled her.

L-189 And, you know, John was six months older than Jesus, which was his second cousin. Mary and--and Elisabeth were first cousins. And then when we find that Elisa-...

L-190 Mary looked back, her young face, and she said, "I, I'm going to have a Child, too."
"So you and Joseph are married?"
"No, we're not married."
"And you're going to have a child?"

L-191 "Yes, the Holy Ghost shall overshadow me." Paradox! See? "The Holy Ghost shall overshadow me, and that Holy Thing will be called the Son of God." Said, "Gabriel met me. And when He did, He said I'd have a Son, and I'd 'call His Name "Jesus!"'"

L-192 And as soon as she said, "Jesus," little John begin to leap in his mother's wombs. He received the Holy Ghost. The Bible said, "He was born from his mother's womb, was full of the Holy Ghost." The first time that Name was ever called out of a human lip, a dead baby came to life, in the womb of a mother. What ought It to do to a born-again church? That Name, Jesus!

L-193 Said, "Why come, when comest the mother of my Lord? For as soon as thy salutation come to my ears," she heard His Name, "my baby leaped in the womb, for joy." It's quite a phenomena. It's a paradox.


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