<TITLE>15. Par 145-156</TITLE>L-145   As I quoted the other day, one of the most outstanding Scriptures, that when Jesus, at twelve years old, when they left Him at the Feast of Pentecost, was gone three days and couldn't find Him. They come back. Mary had strictly testified that, that "the Holy Ghost overshadowed" her and brought that Child. But when she found Him in the temple, disputing with them lawyers, what did she say? She said, "Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears." What did she do? She condemned her own testimony, calling Joseph His father. Now, if she is the mother of God, what about that? See?

L-146 Watch, the Word always is corrective. That little twelve-year-old Boy, never a day in school, as we know of, just a Child. He never knowed He said it, perhaps, but watch what He said, "Know ye not that I must be about My Father's business?" [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-147   And He is the Word today! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "Know ye not?" If He had been about Joseph's business, He'd have been making carpenter business. But He was about the Father, Heavenly Father's business. He was out there busting up them organizations they had up there, and all that scrupled it. He was tearing it to pieces. And they was astonished, a little Boy like that, that knowed that. It was God speaking through Him, because He was the Word for that day. Notice how perfect that is. Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-148   His revelation, we find out, is the same. He--He started healing, and, when He did, everything was fine. But then when He begin to, it is the Voice, begins to speak, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man."

L-149 Well, they, the congregation, walked away. "Oh, that fellow, we don't want to hear Him no more. That fellow is out of His mind."

L-150 They forgot all that He had done, the manifestation. They didn't read the Bible, to see the hour they were living. Sure, He was an odd Person. God does it that way. They say odd things.

L-151 Why couldn't--why couldn't Micaiah agree with the rest of them Israelite prophets down there, before Jehoshaphat and them? See? Why couldn't? He had the Word of the Lord, he had to say. He said, "I'll only say what God said." And they had Scriptural authority to show that they were right, but not all the Scripture. Jesus said, "It's also written." See? They didn't understand.

L-152   Now watch as we are closing now. We're--we're getting late. Yes, I'm sorry I've went too long, and I'll hurry right quick now for the prayer line. Just a few more words I want to say here.

L-153 Notice, the prophet come, and when he does, it shows a sign, and then there is a Voice in that sign, that speaks, a Voice that speaks, a Scriptural Voice that has to be according to the Bible, reflecting the Word for that hour. It's always been that way, it always will be that way, because God cannot change.

L-154   Now notice Jesus' first ministry, oh, they all, everybody, wanted Him in their church, "Oh, my, He's a great Fellow!" Sure, He went in all the synagogues, read the scrolls and set down. Everybody, "Young Rabbi!"

L-155 But one day He begin to talk to them in another way, the Voice of the sign begin to speak. And when the Voice of the sign begin to speak, nobody wanted Him. One of them said, "This Man is crazy. It's cannibal, trying to make cannibal out of all of us." See? He never explained it. Let them go.

L-156 The next come along, we find out that the seventy, the ministerial association He had with Him, when they come, "Well, how can this Man be ascending up? How? Who is He? Why, here He is making Hisself equal with God. That's a hard saying." And they went away from Him.


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