<TITLE>05. Par 45-56</TITLE>L-45 When, we're commanded to look forward, keep going on. Their--their prophesy happened in their days, this happens in this day, and the next happens in the next day. It's allotted out, to the end time. And there is things that's supposed to be going on now, according to the Scripture, the Holy Spirit on earth, poured out upon the people.

L-46   Now, when Jesus come, those scribes and so forth ought to have recognized Him, but they didn't, because they were so set in their traditions. Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, whatever more, they was in that tradition, so steeped, until the very prophecy of Christ Himself, that what He was supposed to be, they failed to see it. He said to them, said, "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They that testify of Me."
They said, "We are Moses' disciples."

L-47 He said, "If you was Moses' disciples, you would know Me, for Moses wrote of Me. 'The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me.'"

L-48 They claimed to be, but they wasn't, because that they was so steeped in tradition. Now, that's how they missed seeing Him in that day that they lived in. Now, that could repeat, you know. It always has, and it could repeat again.

L-49   Now let's just go back for a few minutes. And the only way that we could find out what He is...

L-50 Now, today, if we take the ordinary person, what Christ ought to be, we... Some of them picture Him as a historical, great something. Some bring Him down to just an ordinary man. And some brings Him to a philosopher, a prophets, or--or something, another like that, a good man, a teacher.

L-51 But He, whatever He was, He still is, according to the Scripture. See? Now if we went down to town, to find Him, and go--go looking around, to see if... Now, remember, His promise is that He'd be with us.

L-52 Now if we went to find a certain man at a... we'd say... I'd say, maybe, "Be six-foot tall." And you'd say, "No, it'd be seven and a half." Another one say, "No, he was only four foot; he was a little fellow." See, we'd be all mixed up.

L-53   Well, they'd say, "Maybe He'd have nail scars in His hand." Just any hyprocrite could have nail scars in their hand, and thorn prints. And, after all, Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on High. But how would we ever know Who He was?

L-54 They didn't know Him then because of His dress. Because, He walked right among man, even after His resurrection. And them He would walk with, and they still didn't know Him. See? It wasn't His dress. He just dressed like anybody else. It wasn't His dress. It wasn't His manner. It wasn't His organization. It wasn't His fellowship card that He packed, 'cause He had none. Frankly, he disagreed with it, so it wasn't that.
They said, "We don't know from whence He come."

L-55   And the blind man said, "That's a strange thing. You're a leader of today, and He has opened my eyes, and yet you don't even know where He come from." He had some good theology of his own. See? He said, "You don't know what this man has done, the things he has done, and yet you're supposed to be the leaders of the day now." But the sad part, with them, their eyes were blinded. It was supposed to be that way.

L-56 Did you know the church is supposed to be, in the last day, too? "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness and denying the Power thereof. From..." That's the same prophecy, the same thing. It certainly is. In the Laodicea Church Age, Jesus was on the outside of the church, trying to get back in, knocking at the door. The only age He was ever put out of a church, is in the Laodicea Age that we're now living. So we see we're right back again where we started.


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