<TITLE>08. Par 80-91</TITLE>L-80   But Jesus corrected His own mother. And His mother was in the wrong, 'cause she had already said that that was a child conceived in her by the Holy Ghost, and here she turns her testimony around and said that Joseph was her "father," was the father of--of Jesus. Now if--if Joseph...

L-81 If He was the son of Joseph, if He had have been about His father's business, He'd a-been down in the carpenter shop.

L-82 But He was about His Father's business, up there in the Temple, rebuking those organizations. See? He was about His Father's business, just a twelve-year-old Lad. "Know ye not that I must be about My Father's business?"

L-83 Did you notice when Jesus was tempted by Satan? His characteristic there, when He was in His temptation, identified Him to be God, because He stayed with the Word. See? "It is written," said Satan. Jesus said, "It's also written," stayed right with the Word.

L-84   "God, in sundry times," we read here. "God, in sundry times," that's old times, "divers manners," many ways, "identified Himself to His prophets by visions." That was the characteristic of a prophet, was when he foretold things and it happened. Now that was his characteristic of his identification, that God was with him. Then that give him the rights to interpret the Word for that day, because, "The Word of God come to the prophets," the characteristic of the prophet that He foretold.

L-85 The Bible said, "If there be one, and what he says comes to pass, then you hear him; but, if it doesn't, don't believe him, don't fear him, but My... if--if My Word is not in him. But if it does come to pass, then My Word is in him." That's his identification. That's the characteristic of a prophet.

L-86 Now, God, in sundry times, that's how He showed His characteristics of identification of Himself to man, by speaking through a man that was called to be a prophet. Now, the Bible says that, "God, in sundry times, divers manners, spoke to the fathers through the prophets."

L-87   We also read, over in Second Peter, that the whole Word of God was wrote by them. "Man of old, moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Bible." They were prophets. The Word come to them and they wrote It, wrote it down, under inspiration. First they were identified prophets, then they--they wrote the Word of inspiration, and they had the interpretation of the Divine revelation because it was God in the man.

L-88 Now that's the way He showed Himself in His characteristics of identification, their visions being a vindicated, was God's characteristic in them, making Himself known to the people.

L-89 Now, that's the only way He was in Christ. A prophet was just a little speck. Christ was the fulness of God. And God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. And His characteristics identified Him, what He was, insomuch that He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe it. If I don't have the character of My Father, then don't believe Me, don't believe My claims. If I haven't got the character of My Father in Me, then don't believe it, at all."

L-90   Now, His characteristics never changes. God cannot change His character, no more than--than a--a lamb can change its character, or any other thing can changes its characteristics. Because, as long as it's in its original, it's original. And if you change anything, then you've changed it from its original.

L-91 It's just like you can take a--a hog, and you can wash a hog and--and put that paint on its toenails, like the women does, and fix it up with lipstick, and put it on a nice dress. Turn that old sow out, she go right straight to the wallow, and wallow again. Why? She is a hog, that's all. But, and, but, you know, you wouldn't make...


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