<TITLE>09. Par 54-64</TITLE>L-54 But, you see, it was "just at home" to the shepherds. God knows where to send His Message. See? Just exactly right. In this state the shepherds was in then, in their stable with their Lamb, a-vindicated Message that they had heard. How beautiful! In the presence of the Messiah, vindicated Word of their Message. When the shepherds heard that the Messiah was on earth, and came into His presence, right in their own environment, (and found the Message to be true, was vindicated there) how that must have made those man feel, to find that God had done this great thing for them.

L-55   Why, scholars would have been so out of place there, under such circumstances, they'd a-left right quick. Why? The Messenger coming to common herdsmen. Maybe they could have not even... these... Some of these herdsmen might not have even been able to have signed their own name, very doubtful. You know the herdsmen that Jesus chose when He was here on earth, to herd His sheep, "Lovest thou Me, Peter, more than these?"

L-56 "Yea, Lord, Thou knowest I love Thee."

L-57 "Feed My sheep." And the Bible said that Peter was an ignorant and unlearned man. Still choosing shepherds.

L-58   The church members of those past days, and priests, and well-trained society in that day would've been so out of place in a stable. Now, I'm not quite sure that many of you could understand (maybe, you city people) what a Judean stable smelled like, what it looked like, as the animals in that stable, and what it would've been. Why, some of these classics of today would be so out of place there, they--they wouldn't even enter the door. But it pleased God, by His infinite wisdom, to reveal It to such as would receive It. The scholars, and wise man of that day would certainly would not have received It. They'd a-been so humiliated to be caught in such a place.

L-59 Why, the first place, if they would've went back to their church, and would've witnessed that they attended such a meeting, and believed a bunch of uneducated shepherds bringing such a phenomena, they'd a been excommunicated from their church. They'd a-been throwed out of the society of Bethlehem, if they'd a-been caught listening to such an unlearned bunch of people as these shepherds was. Humiliated, they certainly would've been. If they'd a-been associated with such common people, and being... accepting such heresies as to believe that God would bring His Message to an uneducated bunch of shepherds, when they had everything all prepared for it. They would've lost their affiliation, they'd a-had to give in their papers, and would not have been able to have been recognized among the society of their groups of that day; because they had associated with such a thing, and not with a better mind.

L-60   "How dare you!" the priest would've said. "You come into my sanctuary here with such a heresy, with such a foolishness, that some unlearned bushman out there that doesn't... didn't go to... through the primer. And would believe such a message, that, 'A Angel come down and spoke to them'?"

L-61 But what if the man would said, "I saw his Message vindicated"?

L-62 He'd said, "Let me quickly give you your papers. And get out of this society!" Times change, but people don't. It would've probably happened again today, they would a-been throwed out of their churches.

L-63   But the shepherds felt completely at ease in that place with God's Lamb. And any good shepherd does the same thing. When a good shepherd over the sheep can see the Word of God made plain and vindicated, of what He promised to do, that shepherd's right at home. I don't care what anybody else says, there's "God promised It, and God did It."

L-64 They say, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as the Baptism of the Spirit. There's no such thing as the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, that was for the apostles."


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