<TITLE>25. Par 202-209</TITLE>L-202 Watch the Dove and the Lamb. See? Yeah. What if it had been a... what if it had been something... What if it had been a wolf standing there? Well, that Lamb could not have went upon... or that Dove... God symbolized Himself with a dove, the most meekest of all the birds of the heaven; His Son by a sheep, the most meekest of all the animals on earth. See, the clean bird of the heavens, not a crow; not a vulture, but a dove. Not a pig, but a lamb. Any other nature wouldn't have blended together.

L-203 And notice when the Dove come upon the Lamb, It led Him. Not the way He would, but the way the Father would lead Him. That's the way a real lamb is today. O Christmas-time sheep, don't you know that God only leads by His Word? That's His staff.

L-204   Notice nothing would have took place, but John said, "The rest of them didn't see It, but I bear record, 'I saw It.'" Introducing: "Behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world."

L-205 May I now introduce my Christmas Message, and while I'm closing now: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." It's that same Lamb. He's just as much the Lamb today as He was then. He's just as much here as He was there, for His Word is the same. "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, there I am in the midst of them." That's exactly what He said. He never changes, He's God the Word. He never changes; still giving His sheep, and feeding them by His Shepherd-prophet, His sheep food first. Not to the theologian; to His sheep.

L-206   They won't... How can them others eat It. But the wise... Notice this! But the wise and intellectual, well-trained of the world, still desire to say there is a Santa Claus. And there's all kinds of fiction and stuff that they worship, because they won't accept Him, the Word; because in their denominations, It doesn't fit their taste, the hireling shepherds of the day. The hirelings from creed, that'll want to unite you under one goat, don't you believe it! They'll lead you to the slaughterpen. Hear the Great Shepherd that was born nineteen hundred year ago, this month. Sometime out yonder, in His Message, come the true shepherds that knowed how to take care of sheep.

L-207 Noticing, they still desire it. They won't accept It today, just the same as they didn't then, because it does not a-fit their ecclesiastical taste. They turn that Word around and make it suit their organization, and they won't preach the Word. They won't! They say, "Well, that was for the days of apostles. It doesn't mean this." It means just exactly what It says, It needs nobody to...?... interpret It for them.

L-208   Now let us at this hour bow our heads and hearts towards the dust of the earth, and hasten real quick to a manger, to see and receive the Light that this Word brings by the Shepherd: the Great Prophet-shepherd, Jesus Christ the Son of God. I spoke to you at length. I maybe not fixed my words up like a clergymen should, I don't try to do that. I try to speak It just as He gives It to me.

L-209 But, do you see why it had to be shepherds? The others was so trained in another thought till they wouldn't receive It. And today we've got all kinds of overseers, district man, bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, everything in the world, to try to lead us. But God give us a Shepherd, and that Shepherd is the Holy Spirit.


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