23-1110A_THE IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES Pt-2 (IDENTIFYING HIMSELF BY HIS CHARACTERISTIC)

Heb 13:1  Let brotherly love continue. 

Heb 13:2  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 

Heb 13:3  Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 

Heb 13:4  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 

Heb 13:5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 

Heb 13:6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 

Heb 13:7  Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 

Heb 13:8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 

Mal 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 

 

*WE'RE LIVING ON UP TO THE RAPTURING TIME, FOR THE COMING OF THE--THE END TIME.

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  43      Now we find out, that now we find our Pentecostal brethren are living in the glare of a Pentecostal age, and they still miss It. They're trying to interpret the pentecostal age, when we're plumb past that. We're living on up to the rapturing time, for the coming of the--the end time. But that's the way man does, it's just be that way.
44    We got so much that's allotted to each age. The Bible is allotted out that way, and that's the way we have to have it. That's the way it has to be.
 
*THE UNCHANGEABLE GOD, WITH THE UNCHANGEABLE CHARACTER, AND HIS CHARACTERISTICS REMAIN JUST THE SAME.

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  45      The unchangeable God, with the unchangeable character, and His characteristics remain just the same. He cannot change His characteristic. He cannot do it. Anything is known by its characteristic.

46    I don't know whether you all have yellowhammers down here or not, jay... we call them thicker, and a--a jay bird. They're both about the same size. You watch a jay bird flying, if he's in a distance and you watch him, he'll make a B-line when he's flying. But, a yellowhammer, he'll go up-and-down as he fly. See, that's the characteristic of the yellowhammer. You can tell him by his action.
 
*REMEMBER, YOU ARE IDENTIFIED BY CHARACTERISTIC.

Watch a man use his right or left hand. He's a chara-...
47    We got women today that wants to be man. They dress like them, but they're still... Watch them walk and what they do, they're still... Their characteristic shows that they are women, yet, just the same, see, because it's just that way. We'll get to that later. But, however, we're on something else right now.
Remember, you are identified by characteristic.
 
*AND GOD IS IDENTIFIED BY HIS GREAT CHARACTERISTIC, THAT, "HE CANNOT CHANGE."

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48      And God is identified by His great characteristic, that, "He cannot change." He said, in Malachi 3:6, "I am God, and I change not." See? He absolutely doesn't change. His characteristics are the same.

49    Each time He appeared on the earth, at the end of an age, He always sent a man and anoint him with the Holy Ghost, Christ. The Holy Ghost is Christ, "the anointed," the Logos, and It went out, and It comes to identify the--the Words of that age. "The Word of the Lord comes to the prophets," the Bible said so, and identifies that age. See, He does nothing outside of man. Now He can't do it in a group. You can't do it. It just never has been done. He never did use a group; never did. He uses one single person. You're not...

50    Israel was saved as a nation, but you're going to be saved as an individual.

51    And one person He deals with. He had a... He didn't even have a--a--a Moses and Elijah, the same time. He couldn't have Elijah and Elias, the same time. He couldn't have John and Jesus, the same time. He has always got one, because He gets that one person into His Divine will.
 
 
*NOW, DON'T FORGET THAT, HIS CHARACTERISTIC IS IDENTIFIED IN THAT AGE.

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  52      If we started tonight, and I got one man, some man here that I'd pick out, and we'd agree on doctrine, just perfectly, we'd start a little group. In a year from today, we'd have so many Rickies in there, why, it'd be a shame. That's right, they just come in like parasites. You can't keep them out. So, therefore, it never was God's system.

53    God cannot change. He deals, same, one individual! He did it through the ages. He has always done it.

54    And His characteristic is identified to that age. Now, don't forget that, His characteristic is identified in that age.

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  55      Look in the days of Joseph, the prophet, how that Jesus was perfectly identified in Joseph. He was born, loved of his father, hated of his brethren, without a cause. He loved his brothers. But they were self-starched Phariseeic, like, and they had nothing to do with him, and hated him because he saw visions and--and so forth. But the very characteristic in him showed that it was Christ.

56    Joseph was a prophet. He foretold the things. It happened just exactly the way that it happened. The way he spoke it, that's the way it happened. And he interpret dreams, and he never just give a wild interpretation of it. Every time he said it would be that way, that's just the way it was. He was born, a prophet, for that age. Exactly right. Now, we find that God displayed His characteristic in Joseph.
 
*EVERY ONE OF THE PROPHETS DISPLAYED GOD'S CHARACTERISTIC…

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  57      Every one of the prophets displayed God's characteristic, because it picked up the Word for that age and identified it. God interpreted His Word, of that age, through the man. Now, no one can find fault with that. That's the Scripture.

58    Well, if it always has been that way, won't it have to be the same today, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

59    God interpreted His Own Word! He said, "This thing will happen in a certain age, and this thing will happen," and He comes down and does it. Now, He don't need no interpreting to it, 'cause it does itself. He doesn't need anyone to interpret Him. He is Elohim, the self-existing, all-sufficient. He needs no help from nobody. See, He is God, and He does as He will.
 
*AND GOD IS IDENTIFIED THROUGH HIS PROMISED WORD AT AN AGE.

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  60      And there is one thing that we are sure that He can't do; He can't go against His Word, and remain God. He has to keep His Word, because the Word is God. It's... And God is identified through His promised Word at an age.

61    In a certain, in the days of, now what, in the days of Moses? He was identified. He was identified because He was identified by His Word. He told Abraham, "Your seed will sojourn in a strange land for four hundred years. I'll bring them out with a mighty hand."
 
*BY IDENTIFYING HIMSELF IN HIS CHARACTERISTIC, IN THE SUPERNATURAL.

62    Now, when this great big sign happened, as a big ball of Fire in a burning bush. Moses was a chemist. He was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. What if Moses would have went by with his--with his educational stand, and said, "Look at that funny tree! It's on fire. It's burning. The leaves are popping, and there is nothing being destroyed, being consumed. Now, after that gets through burning, I'll pick some of the leaves and go down to the laboratory and find out what kind of a chemical it's been sprayed with"? It would have never talked to him! But when he took off his shoes, walked up humbly!

63    That's the way we find God, when we take off our pride and lay it down, and walk up in the Presence.

64    Listen to that voice identify. "I AM THAT I AM. I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob. I remember My promise, and I see the condition is right. I have come down, and I'm going to speak. And I'm sending you, and you'll be My voice." Oh, my!

65    That's the way He does it. What did He do it? By identifying Himself in His characteristic, in the supernatural. The supernatural sometime is so phenomena, It gets plumb away from the people. The people get to be good people, nice people, but sometimes they misunderstand.
 
*SHE HAD A REPRESENTATION OF ONE OF GOD'S THOUGHTS

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75    The Pharisees, that had a little bit of light. They was good people, lived a good Christian life, or a good religious life, had a little light about them. They had organ-... organized, and a priesthood. They had a little light. But down in the bottom of their heart, they had no Eternal representation in Glory. So when they seen that supernatural done, they said, "This man is Beelzebub, a devil." And what happened? That put what light they had out.

  76      But here was a little, ill-famed woman, a prostitute. Down in her heart, well, she had a representation of one of God's thoughts. There she was, weighted in sin. But when she seen that happen, she said, "Sir, I believe You're a prophet. I know when the Messiah cometh He'll tell us these things." What did it do? It cleansed her life. He was the Redeemer, to her, because He could lift her up where she had come from.

77    But this Pharisee, think of it, religious as he could be, and Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, and his works you'll do." Religious man, belonged to fine, high orders. And Jesus called them, "Snakes in the grass, and devils." They rejected the Light of the hour. That's exactly what it was.
 
*IT'S THE GERM, SEED WORD FROM THE BEGINNING…

A.THINKING.MAN'S.FILTER_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-6  SUNDAY_  65-0822E

127      There is that real filtration of all the sin of the world, and the love of the world is dead, and this soul is drawing only one thing. Here it is, don't... Remember! Don't forget it. All you out there on the telephones, set this down in your mind. When a thinking man begins to think Who he's going to stand before, and what the Word of God is; when he begins to think, then when he draws through That, there's nothing can get to it but the Holy Ghost.

What is it? It's the germ, seed Word from the beginning, that you was in God at the beginning, standing here drawing the seed Life. The seed is in your heart, by foreordination. Hallelujah! The seed is already in there, by the foreknowledge of God, predestinated. And when it draws, it can't draw through nothing else but the Word.

And then it's the taste of the thinking man, the righteous man, the holy man who sees the Bible, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and forever. What comes into that place down there? That Word, that's in the heart. "I've hid Thy Word in my heart, that I sin not against Thee."
What is it, when it's drawing through the Word? There's only one thing will pass through the Word; that's the Holy Ghost. That's the only thing that can pass through the Word, is the Holy Ghost. And a thinking man's Filter gives a holy man a taste.

128      Then, he's tasted of the Heavenly things; he's got the Word of God in his heart. He sees It manifested before him, and his whole soul is wrapped into It, and the world and all things is dead around him.

Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 

Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 

Col 1:23  If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; 

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: 

Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 

Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 

Col 1:28  Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: