<TITLE>14. Par 100-111</TITLE>L-100   Notice, there has to be singing. Kings were... He wouldn't have been sang to. The people wouldn't have sang to Him, because they didn't believe Him. And that's the reason... Here It comes, you might as well get It. That's the reason today that people's ashamed to praise God, they're ashamed of Christ! The great cathedrals won't receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, they're so set in their ecclesiastical way that they will not receive It. God's going to find somebody that He can get praise through. "He's able of the stones to rise children to Abraham," as I quote John again.

L-101 Notice, His subjects must sing to Him. And His subjects then was His Angels, and they sang to His shepherds which was to take His Message.

L-102   Who should hear It first? Of course, His subjects. That's who would hear the King's singing first, would be His subjects. And what was His subjects? Kinda striking, isn't it, brethren? It wasn't His clergymen. It wasn't the theologians. That's right. It wasn't the denominational people. No, it was shepherds. Why? There was a sheep borned, that's the reason. See? His subjects heard It, who God knew would believe. God sent His Message to those who would believe It. He's all wisdom; He knows where to send His Message, who will believe It. The Highest of Heaven sent to the lowest of man upon the earth.

L-103 Jesus said, in Matthew 5, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." Mary, in... If you're putting them Scriptures down, that's Matthew 5. And if you're putting Scriptures down... That's what I have written here, is Scriptures.

L-104   Mary said, in Luke 1:52, when she was anointed with the Spirit, the Holy Ghost upon her, she said, "He has exalted them of low degree." Mary said that, the mother of Jesus, said, "He has exalted those of low degree."

L-105 Luke also said, "The common people heard Him gladly." Not the--the elite, the--the theologians, the doctors of the law and of divinity; but the common people heard Him gladly, people of low degree.

L-106 Throughout all sacred Scriptures, the Message of redemption has been given by shepherds and through sheep.

L-107 Now I have to come to a close, because we're getting time to close. I'm bypassing many Scriptures just so I can get you to this thought.

L-108   Throughout all Scripture, redemption has been represented through shepherds and sheep. That's right. We all agree to that. Why? It was in shadow and type. And anything... If I never had seen my hand, and I looked down here at my hand's shadow, and I see I had five fingers, I would know that it was reflecting; the negative was reflecting a positive. And that's why the Message always came to... redemption by sheep, because from the very beginning... And it was through sheep, and by shepherds, that He revealed Hisself. All was shadows and types.

L-109   Now let us look at the beginning. Adam and Eve, standing there in the presence of God to hear His Message to them, they had draped about their loins the skin of sheep. The first Message was ever heard, was given over the top of a dead sheepskin, that God had slew and wrapped Adam and Eve in it. After they tried to make their own religion of fig leaves, it wouldn't work. Sheep sacrifice had been instituted for atonement since the very beginning, sheep sacrifice.

L-110 Now, we're going to close this off now, and show you why it had to be shepherds; and why it had to be, He had to be a sheep.

L-111   Now, the prophets of the Old Testament draped themselves in sheepskins (we know that, uh-huh), signifying their faith in His Word of the coming perfect Lamb. That's why the prophets.


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