<TITLE>11. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 You can't believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and live the same life that you once lived. That's right. That makes it pretty strong. That's not skim milk by a long ways, but it's good for you. You can't believe with all your heart, that He is the Son of God, and accept Him as your personal Saviour, and live the life you once lived in sin. Because He said, "You passed from death to Life, and--and will not coming into condemnation: but you passed from death to Life." Saint John 5:24. Do you believe that's the truth? Jesus Christ said so.
So then, you see, the only thing that condemns you is your unbelief. And if we can't have faith enough to believe God for little things that we see taking place, here, and try to muddle it all up, and say, "It's psychology. It's mental telepathy, or something like that." How in the world are you going in the resurrection? Figure that out. When your body will probably be not over a spoonful of ashes. But God will raise it up.
"He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My Blood has Everlasting Life, and I will raise him up at the last days." Jesus said that in Saint John 6. "He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood hath Everlasting Life, present tense, now, and I'll raise him up in the last day." You believe that?

L-24 Now, in taking communion, "And he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. And for this cause many are sick and weakly among you, and many sleep": dead. Is that right? It's a... And now look what they... No wonder Isaiah said, "The tables had become full of vomit." Said, "Precept upon precept, line upon line; here a little, there a little; hold fast to that what's good. Stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people. And this is the rest that I said they should see here."
The Word come precept upon precept, line upon line; here a little, there a little. See, all these things, and yet men look, mutter, wonder, while they shake their heads; He said they would do it. "Oh, I can't figure the thing out, just have to let it..." You're not supposed to figure it out. You're supposed to believe it. Amen. Well, so much... There I go.
I want to read some of His Word. My words are said aren't much. But I want to read His Word. I want you to notice what faith taken place in Jerusalem when people believe, when they seen the sign of God. I mean, they seen the article. There'd just been a woman that come up, and a man, who went out and done something and come and thought they could get by with it before the church. They lied about it. They said, "We sold our ground for so-and-so." But there was a man standing there who was a prophet.
He said, "Why has the devil put in your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?" Such a shock killed the man. Here come his wife in, Sapphira...?... Ananias and Sapphira. So when they come in, he also told her, "The feet that packed your husband out..."

L-25 I tell you, when they seen that discerning, that Spirit moving and pointing the person, and telling who it was, the critics hushed. But today, they're brazen. My. Listen to this. Wished I had time to read it all: Acts 5, beginning with the 12th verse. I believe we'll just begin a little farther up. Let's begin about the 12th though, 'cause I haven't time to read it, my time's getting away.
 And by the hands of the apostles...
Right after the death of Ananias and Sapphira, when Peter pointed them out and told them what they had done... The very condemnation of the thing, to know that they were wrong, shocked them till they died right there. Just think of that. The Holy Spirit speaking, said, "You've lied, and you've done a certain thing." And down they dropped. You believe it's the same Holy Spirit? Been challenged so many times.


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