<TITLE>10. Par 65-72</TITLE>L-65 But let a true shepherd of the Word preach It, in the power of the resurrection, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever! Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Wherever He calls, the promise and the same blessing is true. And let a genuine Word-feeding shepherd see that vindicated, all the theologians in the world can't take It away from him; because he know God said so, and it happens. That's all. It's just God's Word always. His Word was made flesh and was dwelling among them, and they knew It not.

L-66   He promised the same thing in this day. I wonder if we would recognize It? The proud and wise had never received such a thing as that. And they believed if there was such a thing as the Messiah on earth, It would certainly have to come to their denomination. It would be their group would receive It, or "It wasn't right." Now, just think right hard. If it ain't in their group, then... Did you notice, then? God never chose any out of their group, but He chose that who wasn't connected with any of it. Because one group would said, "You see what we did?" And they'd do the same today. But God chooses the nobody, that's the reason He chose the shepherd. The shepherds was completely at home with the God-lamb in their midst, His Word made flesh among them. The proud and wise never received It, passed by them.

L-67   And we could say as much for today, or in any age. It was the same things in the days of Martin Luther. Same thing in the days of John Wesley. It was the same things in the days of the Pentecostals. But God stops for no man's organization! He moves His Spirit right on to vindicate His Word! It would a-had to be and come in the class of their own council or they wouldn't receive It. As they're so headstrong today, all the churches, that they are "going to do such-and-such, and unite all the churches together." If they're looking for a messenger now, who can unite all the Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox, everything together, make one great church.

L-68   Now, brethren, I've had the privilege of preaching to hundreds of different religions, and there's good men in all of them. But now, you remember, I am prophesying, "Every organization will have to accept this, or not be an organization. It's forcing you." Did you read the Tucson paper today where Catholic priests help ordaining, in the paper... help ordain, in Missouri, a Protestant clergyman? And who was it recognizing it? Presbyterian, Baptists, Lutheran, and Assemblies of God. It's in the Tucson paper today.

L-69 Oh, it's shocking! It's not the man in there, it's them ecclesiastical, governmental heads that twist the thing in there, the system that throws you into it whether you want to or not. You can no longer be an organization and escape this wrath that's coming upon the earth, and you see if that isn't right. I may be gone when it happens, look back on one of these tapes. And then if it wasn't, I'm a false witness. If it was, I've told the Truth.

L-70   They would have called It "some kind of a working of an evil spirit" against their positive thinking. You hear so much today about positive thinking: you just put your mind on anything, and think positive on it. The Devil can do that! There's only one thing that rules over all, and that's God's Word. If you are thinking contrary to the Word, forget your thinking. Think on the Word.

L-71 "Messiah," they thought, "would not be found in such a place, a mess as that."

L-72 Could you imagine a fine, great high priest, or clergyman, all polished in theology, would come down to a stable full of manure? And accept the Message of a poor, humble shepherd that had no education, and would come say "See, I can prove It to you, this is the Baby, this is the Messenger"?


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