And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
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36 Now, if you wish to turn in the Bible to the... The Scripture is found in Saint Matthew the 21st chapter, and beginning with the... I think we read the--the 10th and the 11th verse of the 21st chapter of Matthew. Be good, when you go home, if you haven't already done it through this holidays, if you would read this chapter through. It's very good. It's all good. This especially, for this season, and with the Message I hoping that the Holy Spirit let me bring you this morning.
37 Notice the 10th verse as we read, and the 11th.
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
IT OUGHT TO BE A SOLEMN DAY OF WORSHIP TO GOD…
43 And the people has turned into buying
whiskey, and--and gambling, and fashions. And a--a man that... a merchant that
can sell his goods through Christmas time can live the rest of the year,
almost. See? It's such a great holiday,
commercial. And poor little kids on the street; their parents are not able
to--to visit them with a--a present, like from Santa Claus, and they walk down
the street, and their little dirty hands and their little red eyes. I--I just
hate to see it come along. It ought
to be a solemn day of worship to God, instead of a heartache and a headache and
the things that's done. There's nothing to Christ about that. But
we're right in the midst of all this now.
I PREDICT, BEFORE THE COMING OF THE LORD JESUS, THAT GOD WILL SINK THAT PLACE.
47
We find ourselves, at this Christmas, just about like they did the
first Christmas though. The world's just about to fall apart. As I preached on
once, somewhere, about a Christmas message, The World Falling Apart. And the world again is just about to come
to pieces. Look at the earthquakes over here in California. I predict,
before the coming of the Lord Jesus, that God will sink that place. I believe
that Hollywood and Los Angeles, and them filthy places over there, that God
Almighty will sink them. They'll go beneath the bottom of the sea. And it's so
much sin, you see, it's the barrier.
48 Civilization has traveled with the sun,
from... and it started in the East, going west. And now it's at the West Coast.
If it goes any further, it'll be back East again. So that's the barrier. And
sin has traveled with civilization, and it becomes the cesspool of all ages.
Things they do that--that human beings in any other age wouldn't have thought
of such a thing. Woman has throwed
theirself to such a filth, till no woman in any age would've ever thought of
such a thing as we do today. And then still call ourselves Christians. What a
disgrace!
AND HE SENT THEM THAT MESSIAH, IN ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYER, BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT HIM.
54 They
didn't want Him then. They were falling apart, and their politics was coming
apart, their nations was breaking, their church was breaking up, and they
crying for a Messiah. They wanted Him. "Oh, send us a Messiah." But
when He come...
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God gave... gives the answer to
your prayer. You've asked, and you shall receive. And that's... I could stop here for hours, on man and
women, Christians even, praying for something; and God gives the answer and
they don't even recognize it.
56 And now, God gave them the answer. They
wanting a Messiah. They knowed that they'd had Caesars, and they'd had--they'd
had Davids, they'd had Solomons (the wise man), they'd had Davids (the mighty
warriors), they--they'd had all kinds, but they knowed they had to have help
from Heaven and they... God had promised them a Messiah. And He sent them that Messiah, in answer to
their prayer, but they didn't want Him.
WHEN GOD SENDS IT IN THE WAY THAT HE
WANTS IT, THEN IT'S NOT ACCORDING TO OUR TASTE, AND THEREFORE WE WON'T RECEIVE
IT.
57
I wonder, today, if our prayers...
You hear them say, "Pray for a great revival. Pray for this. Pray for a
breaking forth. Pray for unity." I wonder, if God would send such a
program, if we would accept it. I just wonder if we would accept what He sends
to us. You see, He... The reason
that we pray for these things, because we know it's needy. But when God sends
it in the way that He wants it, then it's not according to our taste, and
therefore we won't receive it. And that's the way it was in that day. If He was not in
the taste of their belief and their... They--they would not receive Him again,
today. That's the reason they asked this question, "Who is this?
Who is this fellow that's coming?" See, it was a--a tremendous time. Oh,
everybody was... a tension. Something was fixing to happen.
AND LOOK AT THE WORLD TODAY, WHAT A
TENSION THE WHOLE WORLD LIVES IN…
THE EARTH HAS JUST WENT THROUGH SOME GREAT BIRTH PAINS.
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And look at the world today, what
a tension the whole world lives in. You go down the street... It's--it's not
even safe to drive. It's not safe to be on a four lane highway. Everybody's at
a tension, snapping and... What's the matter? Quieten down. Where you going?
That's what's making the insane institutions fill up. That's what's got the
church in such a turmoil. They're--they're so head-bound on certain thing. They
won't stop and consider God's Word, and the hour that we're living; all under a
strain, tension.
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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.
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?
AND THE MESSIAH MEANS "THE
ANOINTED ONE." A HUMAN BEING THAT WAS ANOINTED.
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...
62 And he said, "Why, make them hold
their peace. They make us nervous, the way they scream, and holler, and carry
on."
63 He
said, "If they hold their peace, these rocks will immediately cry
out."
THEN, IT WAS THEIR CREEDS THAT GOTTEN
THEM SO OFF OF THE WRITTEN WORD.
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?"
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.
YOU'RE PART OF GOD. YOU WERE HIS
THOUGHT.
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.
HE WAS IN THE BEGINNING BY HIMSELF.
GOD DWELT ALONE WITH HIS THOUGHTS.
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That's the way He was. He was in
the beginning by Himself. God dwelt alone with His thoughts. He'll never do
that again 'cause His thoughts are being made manifest. And that's why we are right here, this day...
is God fellowshipping with His thoughts, being made manifest. See? There
we are. So, you, by taking thought, cannot add one cubit to your statue. You
cannot do this, that, or other. It's
God that showeth mercy. It's God. "All
the Father has given Me will come to Me, and no man can come except My Father
draws him." That settles it.
AND TO THINK, IN ISRAEL AT THAT TIME,
THERE WAS TWO AND A-HALF MILLION PEOPLE IN PALESTINE, OF ISRAELITES, AND NOT
ONE-HUNDREDTH OF THEM EVER KNEW IT
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Now, just notice, how few of them in His day, of the millions upon
the earth, that never even knew of Him being here. Just think, there were
tens... millions of people that never knew nothing about it. And to think, in
Israel at that time, there was two and a-half million people in Palestine, of
Israelites, and not one-hundredth of them ever knew it. No wonder He said, "Strait is the gate
and narrow is the way, but few there'll be that'll find it." Just think of
how many didn't recognize Him! Didn't know that He was That. And them right
around where He was at; that's the pitiful part.
69 Those who walked with Him, and saw Him
on the street, and so forth... they--they didn't recognize Who He was, because
Satan seen that He had the--the most smutty name that could be given to a
person. He was called by the world (the natural world)... He--He was called a illegitimate (because
he said that "the mother, was to be mother with Him, by Joseph, before she
was married to him"). So he give Him a illegitimate name.
BUT
GOD, IN EVERY AGE, HAS HAD HIS MESSIAH.
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And again, the--the church seen Him in His great power of manifesting.
Manifesting what? Not manifesting a creed! He was manifesting the Word! He was the Anointed Word,
Himself. And when they seen that taking place (the manifestation, the
Anointed Messiah), they turned It down. They didn't want It. It wasn't in their
taste. That's the pitiful part. How many...? Just think of it! Just as in
other days.
71 See,
each had their own interpretation of the Word. That's what... the reason Israel
didn't recognize Moses. That's the reason the world didn't recognize Noah.
That's the reason all the prophets wasn't recognized. They have their own
interpretation of the Word. But God, in every age, has
had His Messiah. See? To
reject Noah's Message, was to rejecting God. To reject Noah, was to perish. To
reject Moses, was to perish. It was... They were the Anointed Messiah's for that age, the Word that
was promised for that age. And when Jesus came, He was the fullness of the
Word.
THEY
TRUSTED IN THEIR CHURCH IN THE STEAD OF--OF THE WORD.
72 God,
Himself, made into a man's structure, with bones and flesh; the Anointed One.
And they should've seen that. But you see, their--their church world had so added here and
taken away here and--and so forth, until it was so messed up till they--they
trusted in their church in the stead of--of the Word. And when they seen their church anointed, then
they thought something great was taking place. But when they seen the--the
Word anointed, then they said, "That's fanaticism. This man is a devil, a
Beelzebub." Cause it was so
contrary to their church until... their church creeds and what they had done.
And it was that way in every coming of a prophet, the church would be so messed
up.
GOD
WOULD RAISE OUT OF NO WHERE, SOME ANOINTED MAN THAT WAS RAISED UP IN THE POWER
OF THE SPIRIT.
73
God sent down His laws and gave
them a covenant. And the priest would come in and cut away, and add to,
and take over here, and make a creed out of it. And then, God would raise out of no where,
some anointed man that was raised up in the power of the Spirit.
And he was always hated by the priests, by the kings. And--and where the
false prophets wore their soft clothes, and walked humbly, and softly among the
kings and the priests, to deserve big names and--and things. Then the real, true prophet, came from
nowhere, none of their organizations.
74 Where--where was there any in the Bible,
where God ever took a priest and made a prophet out of him? Where did God ever
take an ecclesiastical theologian (trained man, theological trained man) and
make a prophet out of him? Never in the histories of anywhere, did He ever
do it, in any age... did He ever do it. He
has to get away from that system, and bring it up. And that's what He had done
here.
JESUS,
WHEN HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA… A MAN APPROVED OF GOD AMONG US.
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Jesus, when He was born in
Bethlehem of Judea, out of a poor family, and He had no backgrounds as they
knowed of, just one of the tribe of--of Judah, and His mother and father was
from the lineage of David; and they had to come up and be taxed. And here He was,
just a young fellow, around... doing nothing but tearing up the churches. And
they hated Him. And they couldn't say but what that man done miracles. Peter expressed that on the Day of Pentecost, said,
"Jesus, of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among us, that God was with
Him." And not to add to His Word or anything; to make it a little plainer:
"He was God made flesh with us. God with us."
GOD IS HIS OWN INTERPRETER. HE SAID
HE WOULD DO IT, SO HE JUST DOES IT, AND THAT SETTLES IT.
77
We see, every man has his own
interpretation. That's why it's so confusing. But you know, the Bible said, that, "This Word is of no private
interpretation." It don't need a Presbyterian interpretation of It.
It don't need a Baptist interpretation. Neither does It need a Pentecostal
interpretation. God is His own interpreter. He said He would do it, so He
just does it, and that settles it. So that's why they see the Word of promise anointed and then they--they
can't receive It. You see, because It's contrary to their--their creeds.
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