<TITLE>07. Par 66-77</TITLE>L-66   That's what, that was the same thing with Joseph. He couldn't understand. He's a son of David, but he couldn't understand how that Mary could conceive. Now, no doubt, with them big, pretty brown eyes, looked into his face, and said, "Honey, I know we're engaged to be married. I got something to tell you. I've had a visit, by Gabriel, and I'm... I've conceived, 'by the Holy Spirit,' He told me. 'And this thing that's going to be born will not be your son; it'll be the Son of God.'" And, now, Joseph wanted to believe that. But he--he just couldn't believe it, hardly. It was too hard for him to believe. But, you know, it was unusual. Women didn't conceive, virginly, so it was unusual.

L-67 And that's the unusual things that God does. It stumbles the people. It brightens, opens the eyes of some, and blinds the others, in the same time. It's always did that, He--He, the unusual things and unusual way.

L-68 If Joseph would have only looked in the Scripture, to find out what was to take place in that day. Now, there was no prophets then. They hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years. Malachi was their last prophet. And prophets were very unusual. So they had no prophets in them days, so God took secondarily, and gave him a dream, and told him. "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived of her, in her, is of the Holy Ghost."

L-69 See, God identifying Himself, He always does that in the way of the supernatural.

L-70   Now, these, Joseph and Moses, and if we just had plenty time we could just go on and on with it. But you understand what I mean, that, God, in every age, always sends a individual, one person.

L-71 So why do you hang onto some group, when they're altogether wrong? The Bible said so, Revelation 17, it'll all be collected in one great group. But out of there will come individuals that's right with God, not the group right; the individual right, the individual in the group. Now we find out, then, we fuss and go on, about, "We belong to this, and we belong to that." That don't mean one thing to God.

L-72 It's you as an individual, before God. If... You've got to stand on your own feet. You're the one that has to make the testimony. Each one of you has to do that, answer to God for the Revelation.

L-73   Now what if I'm speaking here to a person that was actually cannot receive It, there is nothing in him to receive from? The Bible said, "She that lives in pleasure is dead while she is alive." Why wasn't those Pharisees?

L-74 Look at Jesus, all that we knowed, He was the manifested Word of God. We believe that. The Bible said it was. Well, watch when He done His Messiahic sign.

L-75 The Pharisees, that had a little bit of light. They was good people, lived a good Christian life, or a good religious life, had a little light about them. They had organ-... organized, and a priesthood. They had a little light. But down in the bottom of their heart, they had no Eternal representation in Glory. So when they seen that supernatural done, they said, "This man is Beelzebub, a devil." And what happened? That put what light they had out.

L-76   But here was a little, ill-famed woman, a prostitute. Down in her heart, well, she had a representation of one of God's thoughts. There she was, weighted in sin. But when she seen that happen, she said, "Sir, I believe You're a prophet. I know when the Messiah cometh He'll tell us these things." What did it do? It cleansed her life. He was the Redeemer, to her, because He could lift her up where she had come from.

L-77 But this Pharisee, think of it, religious as he could be, and Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, and his works you'll do." Religious man, belonged to fine, high orders. And Jesus called them, "Snakes in the grass, and devils." They rejected the Light of the hour. That's exactly what it was.


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