<TITLE>11. Par 79-84</TITLE>L-79   Now, after four hundred years, God walked right among them one day. According to the Scripture, He was to be made flesh and dwell among them. "His Name shall be called Counsellor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Everlasting Father."
And when He came among the people, they said, "We'll not have this Man rule over us! What--what fellowship card does He pack? What denomination sent Him?" He had no co-operation. Every church He went to, they throwed Him out. They had nothing to do with Him, because He wasn't one of them.
And as it was then, so is it now! The Bible said the Laodicean church would put Him on the outside, and He was knocking, trying to get in. There is something wrong somewhere.

L-80   Now, why? They had made their own camp. They, if they would have knowed the Word, they'd have knowed Who He was. Jesus said, "If you... Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life. They are the ones that tell you Who I am!" That's what the Scripture said. Now, "They testify of Me. And if I do not the works that was promised for Me to do, if I do not the works that My Father, the Word... 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us.' Now, if I am that Person, search the Scriptures and see what I'm supposed to do. And if I don't qualify; if My works, the works that the Word testifies, the Father testifies of Me, if they don't vindicate Who I am, then I'm wrong." That's right. "If you can't believe Me, believe the Word," He said, "the works that the Word produces."

L-81   See, He was a stranger among them. They didn't know Him. "We'll have nothing to do with this Fellow, just a odd Fellow that had been born down there in a stable somewhere." And they believed that His mother had this Baby before that It was born, or before It was... had this Baby from a illegitimate birth, rather. And then, they, that before the Baby was born, that she went off and married Joseph; and he did that just to hold the black mark off of her, her character. "And He become a odd sort of a Fellow, because He was a illegitimate born child, and that's the reason He was."
And when He come out, what did He do? Tear down their creeds, turn over their tables, beat them out of the place, and say, "It's written!" Amen! That ought to told Who He was. "It is written!"

L-82   Well, they'd have nothing to do with such a Fellow as that. But way down deep in their heart, they knowed Who He was, for Nicodemus plainly stated that. "Rabbi, we, the Pharisees, we know You're a teacher come from God, for no man could do the things that You do except God be with Him." Why didn't they confess Him then? Is because their camp had set its boundary. It wouldn't let Him in the camp. It wouldn't let anybody go out to Him. They had their own camp. He come by night, when the gate was really closed. But he found that he could, met Him, anyhow.

L-83 Yes, same now! They have... He's become a stranger, foreigner. They don't understand It. "Why would this be, and why would that be?" When, the Word Itself testifies that this is exactly what is supposed to be done in this day. How we went through it, over and over, but it's the Truth.

L-84   He was, to them in their camp, "A fanatic, a breaker of their tradition, a up-setter of their churches, really just a fortuneteller, a spiritualist called 'Beelzebub.' That's what He was."
And I believe, if He come among us today, He would be the same thing, to us. For, we have tradition, we have denomination, we can't even get along with one another. Why? There is only one place that man can get along, that's, under the shed Blood. And the Blood was shed, as a germ of life, to germatize this Seed, the Word. Outside of that, our denominational barriers will always keep people away.


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