<TITLE>04. Par 31-44</TITLE>L-31 Now to you Catholic people, how you missed those saints. How about Joan of Arc, a--a French? I might just raise that, because a French territory. You remember, the priest burnt her to a stake, as a witch. "She was a witch," because that the girl was spiritual. She saw visions, and so forth, and you burnt her for a witch. Then, after a while, when you seen your mistake, you dug up the bodies of those priests and throwed them in the river, for penance. But, you see, it already passed.

L-32   And that's the way it always is. It passes us and we don't see it.

L-33 Even to the disciples, Jesus said, one time talking to them. They said, "Why did the--the scribes say that Elias must first come?"

L-34 He said, "He has already come, and you didn't know him." And they understood it was John the Baptist. Even those disciples, that voice in the wilderness, and Malachi 3 being fulfilled, why, it passed right by them and they never even understood it at all. See?

L-35 And it's possible that we could let It pass right over us, and fail to see It. God's way is always...

L-36 Now if it would come in a whole system, or some certain organization, like Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, or some of their denominations would produce it, they would believe it. Well, then, the others would have nothing to do with it.

L-37 So God never does deal, in times like this, with any organization. He never did. He always deals with an individual, one person, you, just that one person. It's you, between you and God, not between your organization and God; between you, as a individual. God always does it that way, always has.

L-38   And now the Bible said, "He does nothing 'less He reveals it to His prophets, His servants the prophets." And always, a lot like in Elijah's time, and Moses' time, and all those different times, He would reveal it.

L-39 Now it had been written in the Scripture that a... God was going to give them a super sign, a great sign, an everlasting sign, "a virgin was going to conceive." And then there was going to be One born, a Child, we knowed Him as to being the Messiah. All the Scriptures, all the way from Genesis, up, had linked up to the coming of the Messiah.

L-40 The prophets were part of the Word. Jesus said they were called 'gods.' And they were, as long as the Word of God was brought to them. He said, "How can you condemn Me when I say I'm the Son of God? And--and, you, those... It's written in your law, 'those who the Word of the Lord come to,' you called them 'gods.'" See, the... It wasn't the prophets; it was the Word of God. And it's same thing now. And it was Jesus, same thing, the Word of God made manifest. And that is always the Light of the hour.

L-41   Now if we looked around, tonight, and we'd go back to some of these great churches, all the way down through the age, and say "this is it, this is it," if you don't watch, we'll be walking in a glare instead of a Light. We're looking at something that passed, years past, looking back.

L-42 Any man who drives the road, looking through the rearview mirror, will wreck up. That's right. That's right. You take like some of our sisters trying, fifty years old, trying to look sixteen. See, you're looking back.

L-43 Look forward! Look where you're going to. Look where you're going, not what you come from. Paul said, "Forgetting those things that are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ." You must always look where you're going, not where you been.

L-44 If you watch the rearview mirror, you will soon wreck up. That's been the trouble. That's the reason that Luther wrecked up when Wesley's light come on. That's the reason that Wesley wrecked--wrecked up when the Pentecostals come on. And if we don't watch, the Pentecostals is going to wreck up, too, if they just don't keep on your toes, to watch. You see, you're always looking back, referring to what somebody else did back there. When we're...


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