<TITLE>05. Par 42-53</TITLE>L-42 That's the way today, that people, good man, fine man, good character man, fine ministers, many of them, priests and so forth, are good man, but the supernatural vindication of the promise of this day is so unusual, it throws them off of their balance. It does that because it's displaying the characteristic of God.

L-43   Now, Joseph, her husband, being a just man, not willingly to make her a public example. He couldn't believe it; he--he tried to. But while he thought on these things, the Angel of the Lord spoke to him and told him.

L-44 Now, He don't always have to speak in a dream, He can reveal Hisself to you by the Word, and show you that It's right, if you're sincere enough to look into It and see if it is God's characteristic that's displaying itself, but always in every accord with the promised Word.

L-45 And another thing, the Word of God always corrects the error. You believe that? The Word settles it. When God vindicates that Word, it settles it.

L-46 Now let's, just one in my mind I'd like to think. We won't take too much time, because we want to pray for some sick. Let's see. When Jesus, being the Word... The Bible said He was the Word. We all agree with that, that He was the Word. Notice when He was twelve years of age. Now, we have no record of Him going to school. But a little twelve-year-old boy about so high, they, His parent, Mary and Joseph went up to the temple to... up to the... to worship at the passover. And while they were up there, they started back home after the passover, they had three-day's journey, and they could not find Jesus anywhere. And finally they found Him, after three days of looking for Him, in the temple, disputing the Word of God with those elders.

L-47   And listen to Mary now. Now to the people who take her to be a goddess, look. You see, the--the woman was deceived in the beginning. And watch her here. If you never noticed it, watch this. She said, "Thy father and I have sought Thee, with tears." Notice, she condemned the testimony (before those priests) that she testified of. She said she was "conceived by the Holy Ghost," and here she called "Joseph" His father.

L-48 Now watch that twelve-year-old Boy, being the Word for that hour. He was the promised Word for that hour, the anointed Messiah. Watch what He said, "Know ye not that I must be about My Father's business?" The Word corrects the error. See, and the Supernatural, a twelve-year-old Child! I do not think that Jesus understood what He said, but He was the Word, and the Word corrects the error. See, He corrected His mother, and rebuked her in saying so. Now, if it had been--been His father's business, He would a-been with His father, if Joseph was His father.

L-49 But, see, her all tore up and excited, like Eve was, and influenced, why, she said, "Your father and I have sought Thee, with tears."

L-50 He said, "Don't you know that I must be about My Father's business?" See how the Word is corrective, It corrects the error.

L-51 Satan made a mistake when he tried to tempt Jesus. But He come back with His Own Word, and defeated him with the Word.

L-52   "God," the Bible said here, "in sundry times and in divers manners, identified Himself to His prophets, He spoke to the fathers through the prophets." Now, showing His characteristic of identifying Himself, see, to man, He spoke to the prophets. The prophets, their visions, vindicated, was--was God's characteristic made known by the prophet's vision.

L-53 Now, no man can explain a vision, there's no way of doing it. It's supernatural. It's something that you see what has been, what is, and what will be. And that was God's way, of sending a man that spoke those things and showed things that would come to pass (not just tonight) every night, every time. Everything he said had to be perfectly with the Lord, had to be the Word of the Lord.


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