23-0911P_REPROACH FOR THE CAUSE OF THE WORD PT.3

Psa 89:50  Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 

Psa 89:51  Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. 

Psa 89:52  Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. 

Luk 20:17  And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? 

Luk 20:18  Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 

*YOU SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM EVERYTHING BUT YOU AND GOD. 

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  23-2    Refusing popularity, refusing popular opinion, refuse the polish of the day and the styles and things of their day. They refused it. They refused to walk with the crowd of unbelievers. They refused the things of the world. They had to do it to stay with God's Word: had to do it.

So is it today. You separate yourself from everything but you and God. It's not what the church does; it's what you do with God, you as an individual.

SHE SUFFERED THE REPROACH OF BARRENNESS. SHE STAYED ON THE WORD AND DELIVERED SUCH A SON.

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  23-4    Yes. But look what God gave him. When Jesus Himself come, Zacharias was gone and Elisabeth too; but when their son came in the wilderness with THUS SAITH THE LORD, Jesus said, "There never was a man born of a woman as great as he is." Amen. What? She suffered the reproach of barrenness. She stayed on the Word and delivered such a son.

Like Sarah of old, like Abraham of old, the old couples held on to it. Look, most that was ever born, like the sands of the sea. There's not a race of people in the world as many as the Jews. Like the sands of the seas or the stars of the sky.

What did happen? It happened in the minority. One child, now, you see where I'm going. One child, that's all it took. It took one child to shake the nations and point to the Messiah. It took one obedient. That's right. God just needs one man. That's all He needs, somewhere He can have a voice. That's all He wants, to get just one man in His control. Oh, how He loves to get one man.

AS LONG AS HE CAN GET ONE MAN IN HIS CONTROL, THAT'S HIS VOICE; HE CAN SPEAK THROUGH IT; HE CAN CONDEMN THE WORLD.

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  23-7    He got a Noah one time; He got a--He got a Moses one time; He got a--a Jeremiah; He got a--a Elijah; He got an Elisha; He got a John; He--He gets--He got a Samson. As long as He can get one man in His control, that's His voice; He can speak through it; He can condemn the world.

Oh, my, how He hungers and pines to get a man in His control. "That I can speak to him, I can let My Voice be known. Though he will stand a reproach, but I'll make My voice known." See?

Oh, yes, barrenness first, have to be bare; have to stand a reproach of barrenness. Sarah had to stand it. So did Zacharias and Elisabeth have to stand it.

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  24-2    Look today. I'm going to say something. Look today at the children of the harlot. She's taken nations under the political rule of denomination, the harlot and her daughters. Look what a generation of denominations raised up, and how few are the righteous. Don't you worry. Stay with the Word.

That's all right. You may be scoffed at, called holy-roller. You might be called all--any kind of a bad name, but stay right there. It's the Word, the reproach of the Word; the thing that they'll say about you.

IT'S JUST TO THOSE WHO GOD WILL REVEAL IT TO. THAT'S THE ONE WHO SEES IT.

"Oh, I went over there; I didn't see nothing." Sure you don't. Just too blind. It's not for you to see it. See? If you're that blind, well, sure you won't see it. It's just to those who God will reveal it to. That's the one who sees it. Always been that way. Sure.

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  31-3    It was Noah that could see the rain up in the skies, you know. But the rest of them couldn't do it. They didn't see the rain up there, but Noah seen it.

It was Abraham that seen Sarah holding the baby (That's right.), not the scoffers that said, "Father of Nations, how many children have you got now?"

How we could come down through the Bible--the sages and prophets, all the way through. "Faith is the evidence of things not seen." They know the Word spoken, and there it is--here's the evidence of it. They see it.

*JESUS: THE REPROACH FOR THE WORD 

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  34-3    Jesus: the reproach for the Word, the Divine Son of God, standing there, Emmanuel, what a reproach, let the unbelieving sinner bind Him, spit in His face, and jerk handfuls of beard out, and dare Him to do anything about it. The reproach for the Word, what? To fulfill the Father's Word.

Oh, but remember, He must stand the reproach of death. God, Who cannot die, and the only One that could die to save a sinner; no one else, no second person, or third person could do it. God Himself is the only One can do it.

Here He was; He said, "There is no man ascended up but He that descended down, even the Son of man, which now is in heaven." Amen.

They said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness." And there He said... "And you say that You're the Bread of Life."

He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM. I'm the Bread of Life. I am the I AM."

They said, "You're not fifty years old and say that you saw Abraham."

He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." And then let sinners bind Him, the denominational church bind Him... You remember, the last days this rich Laodicean church, they put Him out even of the church.

*WHY DID JESUS LET SINNERS BIND HIM? IT WAS TO FULFILL THE WORD, BRING A REPROACH TO GOD DYING.

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  34-7    You see where it's at now? Can you see why I'm crying out against that system? Why did Jesus let sinners bind Him? It was to fulfill the Word, bring a reproach to God dying. God had to die. He had to be flesh in order to die. And Jesus knew that. He told them about it. He said, "Destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up again." Not somebody else raise it up, "I'll raise it up. In three days, I'll bring it right back again. You destroy it; I'll raise it up. As Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth," and they didn't even understand it. See, a Reproach for the Word. He--He was.

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  34-8    Now, scoffed unto death to raise again to Eternal Life. He first had to be put to death so He could raise to Eternal Life and bring every other human being that was in His form to Eternal Life, that would accept it. See, He become human, become a Kinsman Redeemer, and had to stand the reproach of all the scoffing and all the making fun of, just like His fellow servants did before Him: like Moses, like Noah, like all the rest of them stood that scoffing, He had to stand the scoffing.

Why? He had the Word, and He was the Word. That's the reason they scoffed him more than ever. He was Divine and the Word Itself. Hallelujah.

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  35-2    That's what made them... Jesus said, "You hypocrites," said, "you build the tombs of the prophets, and you're the one that put them in there. They come with the Word of God, and you didn't believe them. You're guilty of every one of them."

At Phoenix, God willing, I hit a word the other day. I'm going to indict this generation for killing Jesus Christ, crucifying Him afresh. I'm going to bring an indictment before that ministerial association, God willing. They're guilty of the Blood of Jesus Christ for crucifying Him afresh. Yes, sir. Indict the whole...

Peter indicted them on the day of Pentecost, said, "You with wicked hands have crucified the Prince of Life, Who God raised up; we're witnesses." He brought an indictment.

I'm going to take the Word of God, indict every denomination there is, and every man on the face of the earth that's guilty of the Blood of Jesus Christ. God help me to be His attorney at that day. Amen.

*THEY REPROACHED HIM. HE HAD TO DO THAT. THAT--THAT'S THE ONLY WAY IT COULD BE PUT TO DEATH.

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  35-6    Yes, oh, scoffers made fun of Him. They reproached Him. He stayed right with it. Amen. Oh, watch what He did. He was the Son of God: suffered death in order to put sin to death. He had to do that. That--that's the only way it could be put to death. And He did this and stood it, 'cause all the rest of them did, because all them back there had the miniature Word of God, 'cause Jesus said so. The--the Word of the Lord came to the prophets. "Which one of them," He said, "that your fathers--your organized religions, didn't stone and put to death? Which one of them received the prophets? Then you build their tomb after they're gone." Said, "You're the guilty of putting them in there."

Then He give them the parable about the vineyard let out. And servants come; they mistreated them. Then finally said, "Now, we'll kill the son, because he's a heir." See? Oh, they got angry when they seen that. See?

*AND HE COME AND TOOK THE PLACE THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM AND GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO EVERY SON OF GOD THAT HAD STOOD FOR THE SAME WORD

THE.REPROACH.FOR.THE.CAUSE.OF.THE.WORD_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-16  SUNDAY_  62-1223

  36-2    But He had to stand the reproach. And here He has Himself, bound, lead up to death in order to be put to death to bring back Eternal Life. Glory to God. Oh, how I love Him. Bring back Eternal Life and raise up every son of God down through the age, that stood with that Word and took the reproach. That's right.

If He hadn't have come, Noah couldn't raise. If He hadn't come, Elijah couldn't come back. If He hadn't come, Noah would never raise.

If He couldn't--if He hadn't have come... 'Cause He was that predestinated Lamb that come to take the reproach upon Himself, and die the death for every Word of God that had been spoke that these righteous men had stood for. It had to be. No one else could do it: God Himself... And He come and took the place that He might redeem and give Eternal Life to every son of God that had stood for the same Word and would suffer the reproach.

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 

1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 

1Pe 4:14  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 

1Pe 4:15  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 

1Pe 4:16  Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 

1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 

1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.