<TITLE>25. Par -</TITLE>L-144-193 Do you know the devil believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? Do you know Jesus publicly--do you know the devil publicly confessed Jesus to be the Son of God? And he wasn't saved. And he couldn't be saved; he's the devil. So confessing Jesus to be the Son of God...
Do you know all those Pharisees and Sadducees, every one was very pious and religious people; how they loved God with their hearts, they thought; and failed to see that innocent One, the Son of God, to recognize Him to be the Son of God. And yet they was very religious (Is that right?), very pious, very scholarly, knowed the Bible better than any of our scholars today. They had nothing to do but set there through their generations and serve the Lord.

L-144-195 Now, look what the Scripture says. "In the last days..." To you, my Christian friends, and with godly love, the Bible said, "In the last days men--would come a time when men would be heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." Now, isn't that true?
A certain person in this building went to a New Year's party the other night, and in the basement they were having soft drinks and recreation and carrying on, ice cream suppers, and so forth. The churches even give dances. Just exactly what God told them not to do, they do in the Name of Christ. And here's what Jesus said for the church to do, and they deny it. Jesus, here's His last words, His will and testament to the church: "Go ye into all the world; preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. (Maybe that's as far as your pastor read. But here's the rest of it.) These signs shall follow them that believe; in My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or drink deadly things, it shall not harm them; and if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
Now, that's what Jesus said for them to do in His Name. They deny that that exists, but they go and do just contrary to what He said: teach that it's passed, there's nothing to it, and teach theology instead. Oh, no wonder we're in the condition we are.
Looky here. Let me tell you, my brother. When the church gets to a place that it's--that each member in there is so charged with the Holy Ghost and power, until them signs will follow...

L-145-199 I think of St. Paul out there on the isle after the shipwrecked. God had give him a vision. When the fourteen days and nights... All hopes was gone they'd ever be saved. And the little, old boat tossing about like that, and they was all crying, and fourteen days and nights. Paul was down there, had a vision. He came out, and he said, "Be of good courage, for the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, has stood by me and said, 'Fear not, for thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God's give all those who sail with you.'"
When the ship wrecked and went up on the shores, and they got over there with the natives, Paul was picking up some sticks, and he went and laid them on the fire. And in there there was a big serpent, grabbed him by the hand. Now, that serpent injected poison of that--in his hand that would've killed him within a minute. The natives said, "Watch that fellow fall dead, for he'll die just in a minute. He's in chains for preaching the Gospel."
Religious people put him in chains. The very finest of churches that day was what put him in chains. If it just wasn't the Constitution of the United States, they'd do the same thing today. That's right. Just wait till she's--till she's broke a little more.


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