<TITLE>04. Par 37-48</TITLE>L-37 Like John said, "I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness."
They said, "Are you the Messiah?"

L-38 He said, "I am not the Messiah. But I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, as the prophet Isaiah said." He could plainly identify himself.

L-39 And now, then, in that, we find that God, always, never changes His way of doing anything. He cannot change. God does everything exactly the same way, when He--He sets His system together.

L-40 As I said the other night, He made one decision, man should be saved by the shed Blood of an innocent One. We've tried everything else, to get man saved. We tried to take him to a place to where we built a city, Nebuchadnezzar did. And they built a tower, Nimrod did. They had a law. And they've had temples. They've had churches. They've had organizations. They've had educational systems, denominational systems, trying to get man to God. It, every bit, failed. It always will fail. It comes right back to the shed Blood!

L-41   God's way of doing anything is spoke in His Word. And this Word is the entire revelation of Jesus Christ, nothing to be added to It or taken away from It. "Whosoever does it," the Bible said, "his part will be taken out of the Lamb's Book of Life," if he does add anything or take anything from It. Just take It the way It's written.

L-42 The Bible doesn't need anybody to interpret It, God is His Own interpreter. He interprets It by making what He says come to pass. That settles it. If God said it, and He did it, that's all. It need no interpreter. The Bible said, "It's of no private interpretation."

L-43   God's way of doing it! Ever true to His sent sign, He followed by His voice; every, since, that God sends a sign in the earth. "Now God never does nothing," the Bible said, "until first He shows it to His servants the prophets." Now that, you... If that's wrong, then the rest of it's wrong, see. He never does anything until He shows it.

L-44 And that seer, prophet, is to be identified, that what he prophesies, we find out in Numbers 12:6, that what he says comes to pass. Then, believe it. But if it doesn't come to pass, then don't believe it. And it must be for that, His... No matter how much he says, and it comes to pass, and whatever; if it isn't according to the Word, then it's still wrong. It must be with the Word. It must be set in order with the Word for the sign of that time, the time that they're living in.

L-45   Now, this had been promised by God, that He was going to deliver His people with a strong arm. Now, when this Word, He didn't call a priest, He didn't call a rabbi, He didn't call an executive. He called a shepherd, out on the mountain, a runaway, born, foreordained prophet that didn't want his job.

L-46 When you hear people desiring to be this, that, or the other, something, just watch, God never uses them. God had to hunt Moses down, to get him. He had to hunt Paul down, to get him. He... It's man that don't want to do it, they don't want things; then God takes that man, that he won't do, so He can show His glory by it.

L-47   Now watch. Every--every true God-sent sign is followed by a voice. Now you notice here, the text is the... the sign and the voice. "If they won't believe the voice of the first sign, then they'll believe the voice of the second sign." Now, the sign has a voice. And, now, every true God-sent sign has a voice, and that voice must speak according to the Word that's given for that day, just exactly.

L-48 If the voice comes, the same old voice of the same old... You see a sign, rather, and the sign that the man is doing is the same old school of thought, then you can say right then, "That didn't come from God," if it keeps identifying the same old school of thought. It never did. It never has. It would be against God's program.


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