<TITLE>08. Par 78-89</TITLE>L-78   But he said, "Sons, remember, this Messiah will be Scripturally identified." Oh, how he ought to teach people today! See? "The Messiah will be identified by the Scripture, because Moses said the Lord our God shall raise up a Prophet likened to him. And Moses is our leader, and we're looking. Now, it's been hundreds of years, we've had no prophet, but Moses said that One was coming. And, no doubt, that this link here without a prophet has been to identi-... identify that when it does come, He will meet the qualifications of that prophet." We all know that Scripture.

L-79   Now we find that, later, that Jesus had never showed any sign yet. One day, Simon came up into His Presence, just a little skeptic, perhaps, of Andrew's testimony, because he had heard all this about this wildman happen, drowning people down on the river, and with baptisms, and so forth. And he couldn't go for that, 'cause there had been all kinds of stuff pass through Palestine, at that time.

L-80 But, one day, Simon came into the Presence of the Lord Jesus. Now let's watch what He was yesterday, to that elected seed, that Simon that was ordained to this place, that seed. That like...

L-81   In the beginning, God was not even God. He was the great Eternal, and in there was attributes. Attributes was His thoughts. And then He become a Word, like this. And a word expressed... Well, a thought expressed, is a word. A word, expressed, is a thought.

L-82 And then, remember, if you ever was in God's thinking, you'll always be there. If you've got Eternal Life, you are the expression, or the attribute, of His thought for this age. If not, you... There is only one Eternal Life, and It always existed. And you, in His mind, existed before there was a world. That's the reason He said He chose you "before the foundation of the world." It isn't what we think, what somebody else thinks. It's what God, Eternal! You always was, see, in His thinking.

L-83   It was in Him to be man, that's the reason Christ was the expressed image. See? Now, He was to be Father, He was to be Son, He was to be Saviour, He was to be healer. There was nothing, there wasn't even an Angel, or nothing. Then, He created Angels, then He become God, He was worshiped. Then these are the manifestations of His thinking.

L-84 There is nothing wrong. Everything is going to turn out all right. Don't be scared. God's big timepiece is ticking right along. It'll be there, It'll have a Church without spot or wrinkle. It was in His thinking. The thing of it is, am I in There, are you in There?

L-85 And here He was, the Eternal thought of God, expressed into Sonship. Oh, my! There was God, Emmanuel, then. Notice, then, He was the Word. Now here...

L-86   Am I deafening you? I don't mean to scream at you. Sometimes we speak in big outdoors and place, and I don't mean to get too loud. Now let the... Ever who is controlling it, kind of cut it for me, if they will, if it gets too loud.

L-87 Now notice, in this, when Jesus came, here come Simon up, walking up before Him. And as soon as Jesus laid His eyes upon him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."

L-88 Oh, did that set that fisherman's heart on fire! He couldn't even write his own name, he had no education, but he knowed that was the Word because it discerned the thoughts that was in his heart. There was Messiah. Though the Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned, but he become the head of the church at Jerusalem.

L-89 He fell down at His feet. He knew that that was. Not only did He know who he was, He knowed that godly old father of his, that has gone on. See? That showed that He was the Word. The Word discerns the thoughts that's in their hearts. That's exactly what. Jesus looked upon them and perceived their thoughts. See? And, that, the Bible said that, "The Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."


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