<TITLE>21. Par 193-207</TITLE>L-193 I preached the other day at a certain gathering, of, "Being a nut." One of these days I want to speak on that, "Being a nut." We're all nuts for somebody, so--so I'll be one for Christ. Paul said he "was counted a fool." Sure, you have to be. See, it takes a nut to hold the things together. See? That's right.

L-194   So notice the veil, the human flesh. No, now, the sin-loving people could not see that. Those traditional religious people, they couldn't see that, because He was a man. Why? That human flesh hid God.

L-195 Now, if He had been a great Pillar of Fire that come down, see, a great Pillar of Fire had come down and showed them that what He was, that He was this great Pillar of Fire, they might have believed that; if Jehovah would have went around.
But you see what He did, so that He could bypass all them smart, wise people, He just revealed Himself like He promised Moses, see, "I'll speak to them through a Prophet." And He was Son of man, a Prophet. And some of them recognized It, about one hundredth percent of one hundred in the world, they believed It; the rest of them didn't. But, He was, just the same.

L-196   But there was the Mighty God standing in full view, the Mercy Seat! He died when His Own children saying... His Own children there, saying, "We won't have Him! Away with Him!" Spit on Him.

L-197 A type, way back, when David was leaving the temple, rejected king. Went down through the street, and a little, old crippled-up fellow crawling along, never did like him, he called him "old hypocrite" or something, spit right in his face. And that guard pulled the sword, said, "I'll let that dog's head stay on him; and spit on my king?"

L-198 David said, "Let him alone, God told him that." And David probably didn't know what he said. Went up on the mountain, looking back, crying.

L-199 Eight hundred years from there, the Son of David was climbing the same mountain, looking out, weeping over Jerusalem, a rejected King. And they spit in His face.

L-200 Don't you see? It's the same thing. See that Word coming on down, following on down today? Always rejected by the majority, see, and believed in the minority.

L-201   Now, see, they couldn't believe It. Those Greeks, they couldn't see Him, He was in His human temple. "Why," they said, "this man's name is Jesus; He comes from Nazareth."

L-202 Now, they only had one name there in them days. Like, "John, Jim," they say, "John from Jeffersonville, Jim from New Albany," or something like that, you see.

L-203 He said, "This is Jesus from Nazareth. It's common believed that His mother was pregnated by a soldier." See? And then that's exactly what they believed. Sure! And say they said, now, "And this is Jesus of Nazareth." You see? "Who is He?" See, they couldn't understand That.

L-204   But, why, this Word for that day, when He was preaching, said, "Search the Scriptures. In Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They testify Who I am. If you can't believe Me; forget Me, as a veil, believe the Word that's coming forth. Two is a witness," He said, "I speak and the Father speaks for Me." Amen. That's right.

L-205 I speak of the Word of this day, and the Father confirms It. Now is that a witness to you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] It is, see. That's how it's to be fulfilled.

L-206   Notice in Second Corinthians now, the... in Second Corinthians, 3rd chapter, the 6th verse, the old temple housed God behind old skins, from the Jews. When the old veil was rent, still the Jews... blinded to Who He was, and Who He is yet. And then Pentecost revealed Who the true and living God was, when that veil was cut in two, with God, from the top. Why did that veil do that? Why did it do it?

L-207 Why did there come such a Message today to do what It's done? Why did It come? Why?


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