<TITLE>11. Par 73-83</TITLE>L-73 And you know what them people would a-said? "The man is honest, he's very sincere in what He's saying, but he's absolutely wrong!"

L-74   I've seen people live such good lives until people wouldn't believe, couldn't say nothing about them, but they say "He's sincerely wrong. He just doesn't know what he's talking about. God, He wouldn't do such a thing as that."

L-75 But here they had the evidence! And after the evidence, "Go up there at the stable and see if that baby isn't laying there."

L-76 They'd say, "You've been bewitched by some evil spirit, that's caused you to say such." Yet it was according to the Word of God! And they were too blind to see It, because their theology had blinded them. What a tragedy!

L-77 "Caught in such a place? In such a mess as this was? In a stable?" When they had a beautiful place for Him to come, they had everything fixed for Him to come, and then to think that He would come down (and go) and not bring their teachers the Message. "And would give It to a bunch of unlearned shepherds? And then bring His own Son, and have Him borned in a--a stable? A common livery stable? Well, in a--in a manger of hay? Why, it couldn't be so!" They wouldn't believe It, because It was so humble.

L-78   And It's so simple, that's how the wise always overlooks It. It's so simple, It confounds them. They looked for a God way out there, when He's right here. See? They're looking for something way yonder, when it's right here with them now: Christ, risen from the dead, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-79 All their great things was bypassed. But it sure was the Truth, that "there was the Messiah." We know it today. We believe it today. We accept it today.

L-80 But then if God promised something for this Christmas, promised something for this day, and proves that It's so, and we still walk away from It, we're just in the same class them was (back there at that day) that bypassed It; because It don't--does not come in our denominational taste. That's why we're in such a mess this Christmas.

L-81   Jesus Christ is not dead, He's alive. He's here today! The Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." He said, in St. John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me..." (not he that makes-believe, he that says he believes) "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. And more than this shall he do, because I go to the Father." And I've seen Him, in my own life, do more of the same works (that He did then) than is written in the pages of this Bible. And it goes over the top of the head and the wise today, and revealed to babes such as will learn; as Jesus prayed for. It is true, He's done more than He... I've seen in my day, of my thirty-three years of ministry, I've seen Him do more than I have read of Him doing in the Bible; more of the same thing.

L-82   But no matter what He did then, do you think the Sanhedrin believed Him? "Well," they said, "you're bewitched." But, find out, where they made their mistake was to find out... in finding out, not what their creed said, but what the Word said Messiah would do in their day. And there's where we make the mistake today, not searching the Scriptures. Jesus told them, "Search the Scriptures, in them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are they that testify of Me. They tell you Who I am."

L-83   Notice, God foreknew they would do this, that's just the why He had to take It to shepherds. He knew they wouldn't do it, they wouldn't receive It. Now do you see why it had to be shepherds? Why shepherds? Theologians wouldn't receive It. Why shepherds again? Would It come contrary to His Word? No! They were shepherds, they knowed sheep; and that's what He was borned, a sheep, a lamb. Notice, He was the Lamb. They were--they were the only kind that would accept Him. A shepherd was the only thing would accept a Lamb. They knowed how to take care of It, and so is it today when we get the Lamb's Message.


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