<TITLE>15. Par 114-121</TITLE>L-114   Notice how He approached the subject. He never come right out and said, "I am your Messiah." He could have done it, for He was. But notice He identified Himself in the Word, then they would know. If He'd a said it, He could a said that and it wouldn't have been so; but when He went and begin to speak on all the prophets said about Him, and they seen it, then they could tell themselves, if they were God's children. But called their attention to what the prophets had foretold and said to look for in the time that the Messiah, His age, would be manifested. He, as John, let the Word, the Bible, identify their Message. Any true prophet would do it. Didn't come out and say, "I am He. I'm..." That's not a true prophet of God. See? But He said, "Go back in the Scriptures." See, He never fails His way of doing it. See?
He said, "We know Moses."

L-115 He said, "If you would a knowed Moses, you'd know Me." He said, "Moses wrote of Me." Said, "Search the Scripture, in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and the Scripture is what testifies of Me. Go and look in the Scripture and see it."

L-116   Here He never changes His way of doing it, never has changed. He never can change, because He's the unchanging God. See? Notice He went right back to these two disciples, Cleopas and his friend, on the road to Emmaus, and said, appealed to the Scriptures to them, said, "Why are you so foolish to not to believe that every Word the prophets wrote concerning the Messiah would have to be fulfilled?" Oh, what a day!

L-117 John did the same thing. "Search the Scriptures, look back, said there'd be 'a voice of one crying in the wilderness.' Where did I come from?" See? That's, that should have made it plain to them. Right!

L-118 Should make it plain today, the thing that we see the Holy Spirit doing. He once said, "Search the Scriptures." And we... He wants us to do it today.

L-119   Notice, He begin with Moses' prophecy, the Bible said, "He, beginning with Moses and all of the prophets," but He started with Moses. "A Prophet," said Moses, "the Lord your God shall raise up among you people, among the people. The Lord God shall raise up a Prophet."

L-120 Now He might have said, "Cleopas, and your friend here, did not Moses say that in these days the Lord God would raise up a Prophet? And this Man that they crucified, did He meet that qualification? Now, Moses prophesied this. And now you haven't had a prophet for hundreds and hundreds of years, and here this Man raised up. And what was this Man's forerunner, did you say?" Get it? And all the prophets said about Him, for His age, He spoke to them. It sure would have been interested to listen at Him. Wouldn't you liked to heard Him? I'd like to heard Him, to hear Him, what He said that the prophets said about Himself, but He never said it was Him. He just showed them by prophecy. He just said, "The prophet said this would happen." See?

L-121   Let's just go back a few minutes, and now let's listen to the Words quoted from Himself. Watch here, the Word Itself quoting the Word of Himself. The Word Itself quoting the Word of Himself. Not tell them that He was that, but just let the Word speak for Itself, then they know Who He was. The letter of the Word, quoting the Word in... The Word in flesh, quoting the Word of the letter, being fully identified with Himself. Look here, now let's listen to Him quote. How... Now, we know that they were all briefed of the late happenings, that is, of the crucifixion and of the story of the resurrection, the tomb, as we just read. Now He goes straight to the Word of prophecy about Himself. Now let's just think that He said this; He said a lot more than this, but watch.


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