<TITLE>08. Par 59-66</TITLE>L-59   And now, we know. We are aware. The earth has just went through some great birth pains. And the church is going through some birth pains. It had to go through birth pains before it could give... Each one of the prophets, when they came into the world, it was a birth pain to the church. The world has went through a First World War, Second World War, and now it's ready for a Third World War. And it's in birth pains again. But there's only one thing that can bring peace, and that's Christ.

L-60 All of our schemes, and our ideas, and our ecclesiastical builds ups, and all of our politics, and all of our science and everything, it's been proved that it's nonsense. And then we pray for God to--to help us, to intervene, "Come in and do something for us." And then when He does, I just wonder if we would be able to understand It; if we would be able to receive It; or even would we consider It?

L-61   Now that's what was done back in them days. They'd been praying, they'd had all kinds of great leaders, they'd been under governments, they'd been under kingship, they'd been under everything, judges. But they knowed that there's only one thing that could save them, that was the coming Messiah. And the Messiah means "the anointed one." A human being that was anointed. Then the human being, anointed with the Word. The Word made flesh among us. And when He come, He--He wasn't just exactly in the taste that they wanted Him; not the taste they had... that He should come in. So therefore they--they--they cry, "Who's this fellow? What's all this racket about?" A bunch of peasants down there at the gate, breaking off palms and...

L-62 And he said, "Why, make them hold their peace. They make us nervous, the way they scream, and holler, and carry on."

L-63 He said, "If they hold their peace, these rocks will immediately cry out."

L-64   Oh, time was unfolding! Prophecy was being fulfilled. No wonder! "The Lion roareth, and who will not fear? And God has spoken. Who cannot keep from prophesying?"

L-65 "No, if He wasn't just in our own taste... If He wasn't just the way we wanted Him, the way that we thought He should come, we wouldn't receive Him." Then, it was their creeds that gotten them so off of the written Word. They were so far off, they failed to recognize Him Who they had prayed for to come. Their churches had got them so far away, till the very thing that they had prayed for, was right with them, and it wasn't in their taste, and so they--they--they couldn't believe It. They had to get away from It. They ousted It. They... There's only one thing you can do when you meet Christ. That's either accept Him or reject Him. You can never walk away mutual. You cannot do that. It--it's not for you to do it. It's just that way.

L-66   Just notice, how few recognized Him to be the Anointed Word, of that day. See, God in the beginning, being infinite, and knowed all things from the beginning... And the only thing that these things are is the display of His attributes. An attribute... You have an attribute. It's your thought. You think of something, then you speak it, then you take it. That's God. He, in the beginning... If you're... If you ever was or ever will be in Heaven, you was in Heaven to start with. You're part of God. You were His thought. He knew your name. He knew who you were before there ever was a--a--a molecule, before there was a light. Before there was anything, He knew you and your name. And put it on the Lamb's Book of Life, before the world was ever formed. See, you were His thought. And then a... Then you become a Word. And a word is a--a thought expressed. Then you are manifested.


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