<TITLE>06. Par 54-62</TITLE>L-54   By this, gifts and callings are without repentance. You can't make your eyes brown when they're blue. You can't make yourself six-foot when you're only four-foot. "Who taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?" We are, both, what we are by the grace of God.

L-55 Now, gifts and callings without repentance. These prophets were born prophets. Moses was born a fair child. Jesus was the Son of God, from before the foundation of the world, the attribute of God. Jeremiah... -twelve, seven hundred and twelve years, I believe it was, before he was born, he was the voice of one... No, I beg your pardon, He was ordained a prophet to the nations, and was--and was sanctified in his mother's wombs and ordained a prophet to the nation. John the Baptist, what I'm thinking of, being seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. He was the voice of one crying in the wilderness.

L-56   See, it's God placing. He sends a man, takes the Word of that age. But now before you can believe that Word of that age, He identifies Himself in His characteristic, see, by knowledge, by vision. He told things that would happen, and it happens. And God said, "When that happens, then you believe he has the interpretation of the Word, because the Word of the Lord comes to this man." And his credentials he is identified by being a seer, in the Old Testament. Just as plain as it can be! His characteristics is identified, made known, his characters.

L-57 Now, that's how "God dealt in sundry times," the Bible says, "in divers manners, He spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last days through Jesus Christ, His Son, He speaks."

L-58 Now, Jesus said, in John 10:37, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me."
See, they said, "You're a Man, and making Yourself God."

L-59 He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not." Now He said, "John was a bright and shining light. You, great, you like to walk in his light for a season. Now John said, 'I must go out; He must increase.'" He was the Light of the world, because He was the a-vindicated, identified Word made flesh. See, He was God with us.

L-60   The prophets were God with them. Jesus said so. He said, "If you call them who the Word of God come to, 'gods,' how can you condemn Me when I say I'm the Son of God?" See? So where the Word that's been spoken by God is a-vindicated, then that is God making Hisself known by His characteristic, fulfilling His Word. It needs no interpretation. It's already interpreted, Itself, proves what It is.

L-61 Just the same as He said "let there be light" and there was light, you don't have to say, "Well, what did that mean?" It means just, there it is, that proves it. It's already come to pass.

L-62 Now Jesus said that, "If I do not the works of My Father," or other words, "if I don't have the characteristic of My Father, don't believe it. They identify My character, Who I am. If you can't believe Me, then believe the identification that God has give. If you--if you don't... If I don't, if My character doesn't identify My position, then don't believe My claims." See? You get it tonight? How many understands it, raise your hand. See? "If My character does not identify Who I claim to be," said Jesus, "then you believe the... If you can't believe Me, why, just believe the--the--the identification of the character that I am."


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