Welcome to Part 2 with Brother Bradley R. Wilcox, Matthew chapter 2 and Luke chapter 2.

It's interesting to me that Herod gathered his chief priests and scribes together.

Now these are priests and guys who know their scriptures and said, okay, where is it that Christ should be born?

Well, we talked about this when we did the book of Micah. There's a reference to Bethlehem.

So they knew their scriptures. This is what I've got in my margin. They knew their scriptures.

But apparently they didn't have the Holy Ghost. Jesus was in their midst and they knew it not.

The wise men knew it. These guys that came from miles away knew it. These guys didn't know it.

And it's great to know the scriptures. But boy, to have the Holy Ghost and to have revelation and know what was right there.

And this is news to Herod. It's news to the chief priests and scribes. But the wise men knew why they were coming.

Mary knew Joseph knew. And I've always thought, well, that's a warning there. You can intellectualize yourself and get real smart.

But what about the Holy Ghost? What's that going to teach you?

And if we go back to what it says in the Bible dictionary that these wise men were prophets,

well, then the prophets knew the chief priests and the scribes didn't know.

Do we trust more in the high priests and the scribes of the world who are so knowledgeable?

Or do we trust prophets? Because the prophets in the Americas knew the prophets here, the wise men knew.

And do we trust prophets to guide us to him?

I love this idea because I remember a Dr. Robert L. Millett that we've had on the program before telling,

I mean, it was a revelation. I didn't know this. I didn't know that there were Bible scholars who were not Bible believers.

And he said in his PhD program at Florida State, some people studying the scriptures to an extent,

they lost their testimonies. And I thought, how does that happen?

Because they got so into the academic part of it that they kind of lost the spirit. And I thought, how interesting.

I knew exactly where Jesus would be born from their scriptures, but they had no idea from their own revelation.

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