<TITLE>12. Par 84-91</TITLE>L-84   Now the striking! The most humblest, uneducated man adoring Emmanuel in a stable. The most... And there were people out there, at the same days, teaching their theology. Great crowds, drawing everywhere, from all over the land, they come to sacrifices which Jehovah said was "a stench in His nostrils." And here was humble shepherds, in a stable, adoring Emmanuel; God Himself made flesh, and laying in a stable. See, how we with our great learnings, and our head sticking back like we know something, and God bypasses the whole thing. See? He does what He promises to do, and He always does that. But think of these lowly shepherds out there now adoring Emman-... Emmanuel in a stable. It's most striking. Sure is!

L-85   Then out... After they had adored Him, and realized that the Message that they had been preaching was vindicated, there they are... were out praising God with the most incredible Message of an Angel. Now compare that with today. Just stop a minute and think. Man out adoring God, and praising Him for what they had seen, what they heard, what they knew was the Truth, with the Message that was incredible to the intellectual mind. It was contrary to all ecclesiastical thinking, and yet it was the Truth! It's the Truth! They believed It. And now, how foolish can the wisdom of man be! Then saying that a Angel choir sang to them the first noel. Could you imagine that? That a shepherd that couldn't write his name, smelling like a sheep pen, walking down the street, hollering, "Glory to God in the Highest! We know that He's on earth!"

L-86 The priest said, "That man's out of his mind. Look upon the books and see if he's a member of our congregation. He certainly embarrasses us by his unethical teachings. Get him away from us. We will not be embarrassed amongst the people."

L-87 Well, you can be embarrassed amongst the people and glorified in the sight of God; or take your choice, 'cause, remember, the ecclesiastical taste of the day don't fit God's Word. There not no nine hundred and sixty-nine different tastes of It. It's one taste, one Word, one God. That's all.

L-88   Saying that Angels sang the first noel to them, and also saying that they "got a Message from an Angel." An Angel appeared to them, give them a Message, and they went and found out that Message was Truth. And saying, "Besides that, the Angel sang the first noel to us."

L-89 "Could you imagine?" They say, "That poor fellow." They'd never had anything like that to happen among them, you know, so it was kinda strange doctrine to them. And that's the reason they couldn't find It in the Scriptures, it wasn't for them to find It. Incredible to the wise, no such experience had ever happened to them. Unbelievable, but still It was the Truth. It's the Truth, we know It's the Truth. Think! Christ's first converts and first congregation was sheepmen, not clergymen; sheepmen, herders. Why shepherds?

L-90   Notice! Out praising and glorifying God for what they had seen and heard, heard Angels sing for their first time to a human being. Angels had never sang to a human being before. And look at the choirs, how they had stood and trained and trained those voices, "they'd sing at the birth of the Messiah," and they were all bypassed! And Angels came down and sang to common sheepman, not with clergy clothes on, but with shepherds' clothes on. And look who got the first Message, it's incredible.

L-91 And where it was given, not in the cathedrals, but in the wilderness, out in the wilderness where the Angel of the Lord came. Not in the church, in the wilderness. He wasn't even welcome in the church. They thought He was, and they thought they had It, but God proved that it was wrong. "He's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." That's right.


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