<TITLE>21. Par 217-227</TITLE>L-217 Oh, my. What an inspired man that was standing there. Yet, the Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. He healed a man at the gate called Beautiful, through his faith in the Name of Jesus Christ. Right.
And they, them religious teachers, Doctors of Divinity, high up-and-up's, and the greatest of church and everything, said, "Bind that man. Put him in jail. Why, it's that heresy; it's nonsense."
But he knowed what he was talking about. They took knowledge to them, knowing they had been with Jesus.

L-220 Oh, God, yeah, that--that's the education I want. If I can live close enough to God till others could see Christ in me, and Christ in you, that's all the education I care about. That's where I want to be.
I don't want them to say, "Well, now his grammar is so fine, and he's got such an education, and he knows theology." Oh, my. God, take that away. I--I don't... I ain't got it, and I'm glad of it.
Let me have Jesus to where I can walk and people say, "That guy, I don't believe him, I... but he--he sure been with Jesus." That's... Don't that what you want them to say about you? "That woman, that girl, that man, that woman has been with Jesus. Yes, sir. Well, watch their life. Look how they live and watch how they walk. Watch how God blesses them and honors them. And when they have their mistakes and things like that, it's just gone like that, and they move right on, like." Oh, my, that's the way I want to be. Don't you?

L-223 Now, for ten minutes, let's read this, the rest of this chapter, or begin this chapter rather, 4th ver--4th chapter.
 And as he spake unto the people, and the priests, and the Sadducees of the temple, and the Sadducees... (rather)... in the... of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them.
Now, here's the Sadducees, which don't believe: a real picture of churches today that don't believe in the supernatural. And they just couldn't believe it. Now, remember, remember, there's people today that don't believe in the--the Holy Spirit ruling and governing the Church. They don't believe in miracles. They don't believe in signs. They don't believe in supernatural. They just can't believe it. Now, that spirit's not nothing new. Here it is right here on the Sadducees. They believed the same thing. See? Spirits don't die. People die; spirits goes on.
God took His Spirit, took His man, Elijah, and a double portion of His Spirit come upon Elijah. Is that right? Then about eight hundred years later, come on John the Baptist. Is that right? And comes right on down to the last day again.
God took His Son, the Lord Jesus. You believe that? But His Spirit come back. Is that right? It was on Martin Luther. It was on John Wesley. It was on down through the ages, on Sankey, Moody, Finney, Knox, Calvin, all of them (You see?), coming right on down, and is now going right on today. Look at their children back there, they just deny everything them people believed in; but not the founders.

L-227 When I stood not long ago by the side of that great founder standing there, I looked and I thought, "Oh, God, looky there, Dwight Moody." I thought, "Look up here. And that man, the things that he believed in: the power of God, the supernatural. Uneducated, his books that you read, you see who wrote them. He wrote them hisself, but who polished them up? His grammar was terrible. He had about a third-grade education, and an old shoe cobbler. But, brother, he sent a half a million souls to God. See? What was it? They'd turn him out of the church, and said he was a fanatic and everything else. But he went out and seen a bunch of men... He had a message on his heart. He had to preach so much, he didn't know what to do. So he went and bought a shoe box from a man, wood--big, old, wooden shoe box, paid a dime for it. Set it out on the corner. And these men coming by. He stood there and preached right on the corner to them, like that. That's right. And I think of a church that he had, and look at the Moody Bible today.


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