<TITLE>08. Par 64-72</TITLE>L-64   They told you Pentecostals, forty-five, fifty years ago. Your mothers and fathers, when they were genuine pentecostals, come out of a organization and cursed the thing and walked out of it. Then like a dog to its vomit, went right back in it again. Done the same thing that killed that church, you killed your own by the same thing. Nothing against the people in there, nothing against it, it's the systems of the thing that's what's doing it.

L-65 Home, I'm... go home... I don't preach this in other man's meeting. I'm going to preach The Trail Of The Serpent, and listen to it if you take the tapes.

L-66   And, notice, they missed seeing the confirmation of the prophecies of God's Word being fulfilled. If those priests... They had it fixed up just exactly the way the Messiah was going to come, they knowed what was going to take place. The--the Pharisees had their idea, the Sadducees, Herodians, and, oh, they had their ideas. But He come not... He come contrary to every one of them, but exactly with the Word. Jesus said the same thing was here: "If you would have known Me, you should have known My day. If you had knowed, you'd... You say, 'Well, Moses! We have Moses.'" Said, "Why, if you would believe Moses, you'd believe Me; because, he wrote of Me."

L-67 But, see, when God was confirming exactly what He promised, they had it in some kind of a dignified way that Jesus was supposed to come, and the... I mean the Messiah. The Messiah had to come right to their group or he wasn't Messiah. Well, it's that way, almost, today, "If you don't see through my glasses, you're not looking at all." See, and so that's--that's just the way it--it is. We... That's the truth. We hate to think that, but it's absolutely the Truth.

L-68   In Hebrews 1:1, God in sundry times wrote the Bible by His Own chosen way. He never wrote It by theologians, neither does He interpret by theologians. There never was a time that--that the theologians ever had an interpretation of the Word of God. The interpretation comes only to a prophet. And the only way we're ever going to get out of this mess is for God to send us that prophet, just exactly, the only way it's going to be done. It's been believed, watched for, and--and fulfillment.

L-69 See, It was not wrote by man, but It was wrote by God. It's not a man's book, It's not a theologian's book. It's the Book of God, which is a Book of prophecy wrote by the prophets and interpreted by the prophets. The Bible said, "The Word of the Lord comes to the prophets." Exactly!

L-70   How beautiful that was illustrated, or, demonstrated when Jesus was come on earth, and John was the prophet of that day, and he--he was prophesying. They said, "Oh, you mean to say that God's going to tear down our big associations here and all these things? And there's going to be a time, when our--our temples won't no more be worshipped in?"

L-71 He said, "There was coming a time when God would make a sacrifice out of the Lamb of God, a man." And he said that--that he would know Him when He come. And he said... He was so sure of his message, he said, "He's standing right among you now and you don't know it." He's right among you and you don't know it.

L-72 And one day when Jesus walked out, John looked up and seen that sign above Him, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." That same minute Jesus knowed then that He was a-vindicated before the people. Now, He was the Word, would we doubt that? The Bible said He was the Word, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." And here He is, the... Here's the Word on earth (look! perfectly!) comes right out into the water to the prophet.


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