<TITLE>08. Par 45-53</TITLE>L-45 So it disturbed the Sanhedrin, and they called for the Scribes to come read. And they read Micah's story, the prophet which said, "Thou Bethlehem, art thou not the least of all the princes of Judah (the least), but out of thee shall come a governor that shall rule My people, Israel." And after the Scriptures being read (and still being vindicated before their eyes), they still didn't accept It, though the Scripture said so. I doubt very much they would today, if the Scriptures that's promised for this day would be made manifest. I may never preach to you again, but I want you to get this. Still they wouldn't believe!

L-46 The great wisdom of the Father makes man's wisdom so foolish that He belittles the man. He actually comes to the place to where it makes man feel so ashamed of himself, and he's not big enough to admit that he's "wrong." He still stays with his story, no matter how much the Father proves that His Word is true and He's doing just what He promised to do. Man thinks his wisdom is so superior to God, if it don't come according to his wisdom, "Why, It isn't so." That's true in every age, still does it. See how fitting the whole matter was, now?

L-47   What inspiration to those herdsmen! The Angels coming down to speak to herdsmen, Angels of God coming to speak to a bunch of shepherd.

L-48 I wonder if you ever had the privilege of--of talking with a shepherd or being with one, a while? If you would, I--I don't like to say it because of my remark I'm fixing to say after while, but the shepherd stays with the sheep so much until he even laughs like the sheep (bleating), he talks like the sheep, and he smells like the sheep. That's right, because he's with the sheep. That's all he knows, is his sheep.

L-49   Now, the vindicated Word of Truth. When these shepherds, humble, uneducated man... What a honor, how fitting it is to a shepherd to receive a message of a new borned sheep. It could come to nothing else but a shepherd. That's why He was borned in the stable, and not in a house. Sheep are not borned in a house, or in a pink decorated hospital room. See? They are borned in the barn, and in the fields.

L-50 That's the reason He was led to Calvary. You cannot make a sheep walk the gangway to the slaughter. Did you know that? In the slaughteryards, they have a goat that leads the sheep. And when he gets up to where the killing place is, he jumps out and lets the sheep go on. A sheep has to be led, he can't lead himself. So, therefore, it had to be the shepherd coming for the... his sheep. When they found the God-baby exactly where the messenger said He would be, and when they found this Message--Message of the messenger in the manger, exactly where the Angels said It would be.

L-51   Now, I heard people say, "An Angel spoke to me, He said, 'thus and thus.'" How ridiculous sometime; and I've heard people say that a Angel spoke to them, and told them "thus and thus" which was absolutely contrary to the Word. Now, how could an Angel do that? It just couldn't be. And if God told you a certain-certain thing would happen (you say He told you that), and it doesn't happen, then it wasn't God speaking to you. Just remember, that's right. God doesn't lie. He's not found in a lie.

L-52   When they found the baby, what a joy it must have been to them. Because the Angel that gave them the message, they found it just exactly the way the Angel said it would be, and just in the place where the Angel said it would be. What a thing that must have been to them!

L-53 In a manger, why? See how at ease these herdsmen was in the stable? What do you think a theologian would have been in there? He'd a-put a pin over his nose, and said, "Get me out of this place." See? He would have been so out of place, he'd been in misery.


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