<TITLE>12. Par 123-136</TITLE>L-123   When Jesus come, He was the Word. So was Moses the Word; Moses, the rest the prophets, was the Word, but they were the Word in portion. He was the Word in full. He was the fullness of the Word. He was the Word.

L-124 And then they was living in the--the flickering glare of Moses' age. He said, "If you'd have knowed Moses, you'd knowed Me, for Moses wrote of Me."

L-125 They said, "Well, You're not yet fifty years old, and say 'You seen Abraham?' Now we know You're mad."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

L-126 The "I AM" was in the burning bush. That was the Pillar of Fire. See? He was "I AM." "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever," the Bible said, "Jesus Christ." His characters doesn't change, at all. His Words are the same.

L-127 It's the portion of Word for each age. And how does He make it known? He makes it known by His servants, the prophets. He all... How is the--how is the prophet understood? When he prophesies anything, and it comes to pass.

L-128   Now, prophets now, in these days, we got gifts of prophets... gifts of prophesy, rather. You lay hands on, and pray, and you... Gifts comes in, in nine spiritual gifts, in the church. That's, before the prophecy can be received by the church, it has to be judged by five spiritual judge... or three spiritual judges.

L-129 But, not a prophet. A prophet is born a prophet. "Gifts and callings are without repentance." It's something that's in you. It's something was born in you. God ordained it in you.
Why, Moses was born a prophet.

L-130 Jeremiah, the Bible said, why, said... God said to Jeremiah, said, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I sanctified you and ordained you a prophet to the nations."

L-131   John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, Isaiah saw him, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness." His father was a priest. He... It's, ordinarily, they go back and take the job of their father. But his job was too important. He had to announce the Messiah. So he went into the wilderness. No education; he didn't need the education. He had to have a direct revelation, Who this Messiah was.

L-132 And he knew Him. He said, "I bear record, I saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, descending upon Him, and a voice from Heaven, saying, 'This is My beloved Son.' This is Him."

L-133 If he had been in some seminary, or something, they said, "Now, you know Brother Jones, over here. He just looks like the Messiah," see, be persuaded.

L-134   But, his job was too important. He had to get into the wilderness and stay alone with God. When he come out, he had no education. He spoke like men. He said, "Oh, you generation of vipers, or snakes in the grass."

L-135 Now if it had been some educated man, he could said some other word, you know, "You little piece of inconvenience," or something. But he had brought something another, but he would have--he would have brought other high, ethical word or something, his education.

L-136 But John said, "There were sneaking and slimy like a snake." That's what he seen out in the wilderness. Said, "You generation of snakes, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Don't think that, 'We belong to this, and we belong that,' you got anything." Wonder if he wouldn't say the same thing today? "God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham, these rocks." What he had seen. Also, "The ax is laid to the root of the tree." What he had seen in the wilderness. "Every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit, the unbearing fruits trees, was hewed down and cast in the fire." See? His sermons was in types. But he--he was exactly what God ordained him to be. See? He was that prophet. They hadn't had a prophet for hundreds of years. Notice, but God molded him and made him.
We find out, Jeremiah, coming on the scene.


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