<TITLE>09. Par 90-103</TITLE>L-90 You say, "Could we do a thing like that?" It could be possible we could do that. That's right. It could certainly be possible. After He promised in His Word, the thing that He was going to do, and we see it come to pass just as He said, and still we walk over it. That's what they had done.

L-91 Now, He come right around, told them He was going to be crucified, raise up the third day, and begin then to tell them all about it.

L-92   And they were sad, said, "You know, some of the fellows went down to the grave, and some of the women. They said He would raise up from the dead. And all of this rumor has got stirred around. And said, "Are You just a stranger around here? You don't know these things?"

L-93 He said, "What things?" just like He didn't know nothing about it. See, He said that, just to throw them off. And He did that, purposely, just to try.

L-94 And don't you know He doesn't change His nature? He does the same thing, just to--to try you, see what you will do. He'll work around some way, It'll be throwed before you, and just to see what you--what you say about It, your attitude, the way you take, what you think about It. He does that, purposely, does it yet, because that's His unchanging nature. He did it the old times.

L-95   Remember Elijah. He even had a soldier to smite him. He said, "I was a sentry, standing by, to Ahab, and I let the prisoner get away." He didn't do that, but he did it like that so he could let Ahab pronounce his own judgment.

L-96 Done the same thing in the days of Noah, and He--He can't change His way. And God comes down in a manner. But always...

L-97 You say, "Well, how would I know what was right and wrong?" It's the promised Scripture for that hour. It's the Scripture that's promised.

L-98 If they would have got out of their tradition, and got away from that tradition that they were in, and read the Scriptures, like He told them to do! "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are that that testifies of Me. They tell you Who I am."

L-99 And they said, "Well, now, rabbi told us this and that. We, we believe what the church says." See?

L-100 Ain't what the church says. It's what God said. What God said, not what the denomination says, or that. You believe God. Now, that's where they failed, because they were so traditioned that they failed to recognize It.

L-101   Now we find, then, He said He rebuked them. Watch. "Fools and slow of heart to understand all the Scriptural signs and things should took place of this age. Fools, slow of heart to understand all that the prophets have said that should take place in this day, all these signs that you see. The Bible said these signs were to take place in this day, and you see them taking place, and then are you foolish enough not to believe it?" And Him talking right straight to them, and yet they didn't recognize it. Talk about blind!

L-102 Could we do that? Might be we could, if we don't search the Scriptures, to find what hour we're living in, see what hour, what's, how. It's maybe later than what we think it is.

L-103 Yet, they claimed to be His disciples. They claimed to believe that they had believed every Word that He had--He had said. They believed all the Bible. And here was the--here was the Messiah, the God of the Bible, standing there in identification, identifying the very written Word. And they were supposed to be believers of that Word. And Him referring back, and telling them that. "You remember what was said about this; and what was said about this; and how Jesus must do this; or how the--the Christ must do this; and how then all these things?" And yet they didn't understand It. They didn't know. What was it? They knowed the Word, as far as the letter was, but they didn't understand the Word when It was literally interpreted.


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