<TITLE>05. Par 25-30</TITLE>L-25   Notice, Angels coming and... Angels coming and giving their Message to man of such low estate, when there were man there much more (earthly thought of) qualified than these poor, illiterate shepherds. The shepherd was the most illiterate of anybody, he didn't need to know nothing but just about his sheep. He didn't need to know mathematics. He didn't need to know how to--to split an atom. He didn't need no scholarship. He just had to know his sheep, that's all that he needed to know. And God, the great Wisdom, and the Fountain and resource of all wisdom, would choose such a person as that (persons, rather, as that), and bypass all the well-trained scholars that's trained to know That. It speaks one thing, that they were trained in the wrong field. Passing up all the important of the land; there were important people, great teachers, Caiaphas the high priest, many other great man, all Israel's mighty learned, all the denominations, and all the boasting theologians, God bypassed everyone of them! Now, that's God's wisdom.

L-26   Notice, the Highest Heavens hastening to honor earth's most humble and unlearned. The Highest of Heaven came down to make Hisself known to the lowest of the earth, bypassing all between to make Hisself known to common herdsmen; coming to give these common herdsmen the greatest Message of all times. There had been many great messengers. We would think of in Noah's day, and the prophets, and--and the great priests, and so forth, had been in the days gone by. The great learned man, kings, potentates, monarchs, but here He comes with the greatest of all the Messages. What was the message? "Messiah is here now!" See? And to make that known, He bypassed all the trained, to make it known to humble shepherds.

L-27 Think of it: all of the clergymen, all of the churchmen, all of the teachers, all of the--the theological training, all the money had been spent, all the churches, and the doctrines, and the denominations, was all bypassed! All the learning that they had spent on all the--all the missionaries, and all the proselyting, all the membership, and everything that they had thought they had done honor to God, yet the key Message of all of it was bypassed from them. Strange! Why? See?

L-28   And notice, not only that, but the most unlikely place for such an event. The shepherds, now, was the one who received the Message. And now notice where the Message was: in the most unlikely place that anyone would expect It to come. And I wonder, tonight, if we were looking for the true Message of the Lord Jesus, I wonder if It would be in a unlikely group, a place that was... that the great, high cultured world and the church today would think was a bunch of--of, oh, heretics? I wonder if that wouldn't be where we'd find Him? The most unlikely place, and to the most unqualified speakers. Shepherds knowed nothing about speaking, only calling sheep; well, maybe that's why It come.

L-29   But there was a promised Word. Notice, it could do that again.

L-30 It bypassed all the nobles of the land. It bypassed all the nobles, and was revealed to the nobodies. All the nobles that were decorated with--with great doctor's divinity and--and psychology, and--and highly educations, and great cathedrals and things, it was all bypassed and revealed to nobodies. The wisdom, the infinite wisdom of Almighty God did it, to make known to them the greatest Message ever was, "The Messiah is now on earth." What a wisdom! Could only come from God who knows wisdom! All the wisdom and all of the schooling, and everything, was now laid to waste and bypassed by the great wisdom of God. I keep repeating that because I want it to go down deep. All laid to waste, it was of no good. Bypassed it all to let God's wisdom have the right of way, that God takes the nothings to make the somethings.


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