<TITLE>17. Par 194-203</TITLE>L-194   John, dead, six months in his mother's womb, come to life, through the Name of Jesus Christ, the first time it was ever spoke by human lip, show that dead man would come to life, by the Name of Jesus Christ. Still a paradox! "Not another name under Heaven, given among man, whereby you must be saved." A paradox! Yes.

L-195 John was a phenomena. Looked like he would have went and carried out his father's, went to his school where his father was trained at, being a Levite. Levite was the only ones could be in the priesthood. So John was a Levite, so it, ordinarily, it was--it was traditional for him to go to the school of his father. But God had a--a work for him; he was to announce the Messiah.

L-196 His work was too phenomena for him to follow the traditions. I hope you're reading right. His work was too phenomena. He couldn't go to their traditions and take up with their traditions.

L-197 Everybody would be saying, "Now, don't you think that Brother Jones, here, is just the man to be the Messiah? We know that you're to announce Him. Don't you think he's just the right kind of a man?" It would have been another Matthias.

L-198   But what did he do? He stayed in the wilderness. He had no education. John, like many of us, today, he could not speak and use the words of grammar that we would express our inspiration by, or man, not myself, probably most of us in here couldn't do that. What did he do? He had to go to nature, to parallel it, to bring out his point. See? When he had the expression, he had to go to nature. Look, he--he said, "O you generation of vipers," what he had seen, snakes in the wilderness. He seen that's what they were, "Generation of vipers." Now, an educated man would have had some other word, see, that he could use instead of that, but he expressed it by "a snake."

L-199 Said, "Don't think, within yourselves, 'because we belong to this,' that you're going to mean anything to God; for God is able of these stones..." See, not take some theological word; he knowed nothing about any seminary. He had his seminary in the wilderness, see, before God. It was strange that God would take a man like that, it's a paradox, instead of all them fine, educated priests that was in the schools. It's quite a paradox. God always works in paradoxes, to my opinion.

L-200   The virgin birth was a paradox; a virgin conceive, bring forth a Child. God, made flesh; God changed His strand from--from Spirit, to become Man. Man change... He changed His tent, His dwelling place, and tabernacle.

L-201 When Jesus was standing there, and upon the shores of Galilee, John looked up and he saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, descending, and a Voice saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell in." "In Whom I am pleased to dwell," the same thing; verb before the adverb, is all, see. See? "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell in." God and man becoming one, uniting together for redemption. How God, that covered all space and time, could come down and bottle Himself into a Man, so He could taste death for all the human race! The Creator, dying, to save His creation.

L-202 Heavens and earth kissed each other, man and God became one (how can a man?) there, that He might dwell in man and fellowship. It's nothing but God condescending, trying to get to His man.

L-203   In the beginning, He was the Father. He was above all. He was alone. He dwelt alone, Elohim. Even when He come down upon the mountain, even if an animal touched the mountain, they must die. But then, "He was made flesh, and we touched Him, handled Him." He did that in order to shed His Blood, virgin Blood; because we are born by sexual desire. He was born virgin-birth. He wasn't the blood of a Jew. Neither was He a Gentile. He was God, creative Blood. See? Jew blood don't save us. Gentile blood don't save us. "God's Blood," the Bible says, "saves us." He was God's Blood.


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