<TITLE>11. Par 23-24</TITLE>L-23 Now, notice. Then, the first thing you know when He noticed him, and seen him coming, it astonished the man. Now, if you'll notice, what a strange thing it was, when all those Hebrews then, when they seen all those... Remember, staunch men, renown men, holy men, scholars of the Bible, you couldn't lay one finger on their life and say they wasn't holy. They kept the commandments of God just as true as could be kept. See? They were holy. They didn't do one thing, day nor night, eat, sleep, and read the Scriptures. They had to be born in a certain lineage before they could be a priest, or a teacher, Levites. Their great-great-great-great-grandfathers were teachers and so forth. Handed down the scrolls, the laws, they studied it day and night, and failed to recognized that being the Son of God. And as it was then, so is it now.
And watch those people. They knew that He could... He knowed what them people were thinking about; He knew them people had come to Him, what they were--what they were doing. He knowed their life, He knowed what was wrong with them. And they couldn't deny that. And finally after while, instead of setting down, trying to solve it out with the Scriptures, and see that it was the Son of God, they said, "He is Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers, the greatest devil that ever lived." Is that right?

L-24 But now, you look what the devils said; the devils turned back around and said, "We know who You are: The holy One of God." Now, who was right? The preachers or the devils. The devils was.
Look up there at Paul and Silas, when they was coming down the street, and those preachers up there, ministers, said, "Why, these men are--are terrible fellows." Said, "Why, they turn the world upside down; they're--they're--they're--they're heretics and so forth.
And when they went down the street, a little old fortuneteller, devil possessed, setting out on the street, said, "These men are men of God that tell us the way of life." The devil was right in that case. See? But they classed Jesus over in that type, because the two spirits were close together. And they didn't stop to think and reason it out in the Scriptures; they just throwed it all in one big bunch, and throwed it away; because He taught against their theology.
Notice, notice again. There He was, stood there, and Nathanael was so astonished, he said, "Whence knowest Thou me?"
He said, "Before Philip before you."
Now, if He would've said, "Now, you wait and give me a few days to figure this thing out and see what it's all about. I'll go ask my pastor," or, "I'll look it up, and find out what it's all about," probably the story of Philip, or Nathanael, wouldn't have been written, like it is.


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