<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 When he spoke--when they spoke in the pamphlet, I guess you noticed it, called me "Simon the sorcerer." Now, friend, you know I'm not Simon the sorcerer. And by the way, Simon the Sorcerer wasn't the one that done the healing; it was the other way. It was Philip done the healing.
Simon the sorcerer had a church, and it--it was a formal church, perhaps a state church, and he had them all bound down. And they didn't have no joy. They didn't have any power. But when Philip come down, he preached to them Christ, resurrected. Great joy came, and healing came. And then Simon wanted to buy that power. See how backward they had it? It was the formal stiff one that had the--was doing the sorcery, not the healing, or the power of the Holy Ghost. It was just vice versa.

L-6 And then when the question was said, on the piece of paper, that--that Jesus--they said that a "weak and adulterous generation seeks after signs," Matthew 12:39. Did you notice he never quoted 38? Look who come, it was the stiff, starchy church, the Pharisees, walked back with their collars back, and said, "We would desire a sign from You."
Jesus didn't clown for them. He said, "You only have one sign to you: As Jonah was in the belly of the whale, well, so will the Son of man be." That was their sign, and they didn't believe it. They wouldn't believe it now. And then they said that... Jesus said that, "Many will come to Me in that day, and say, 'Lord, Lord, have not I prophesied in Your Name? Haven't I cast out devils in Your Name? And done many mighty works in Your Name?' And I will say unto them, 'Depart from Me, I did not know you.'"

L-7 Now, brother, if you can't see, interpret that, it's either their theology's wrong, or you're suffering with a mental weakness. Jesus said, "They will say to Me, 'I have preached in Your Name and done works in Your Name.'" Jesus said, "If you did, I knowed nothing about it. I never knew it." They claim they done it, but they didn't get the results.
Listen, friend. If Jesus sent His disciples forward to preach the Gospel and to heal the sick, and then turn around at the judgment day and condemn them for doing what he said do, what kind of a Christ would He be? The only thing it is... I have debated infidels; they take the Bible too. But they just pick one little place here, then pick another one over here to prove their point. We have to take it from Genesis to Revelations.

L-8 See, the Bible is like a jigsaw puzzle. You might pick up a piece, say, "It goes down here." But it might not; it might go up here. Therefore, all of God's Word has to coordinate from Genesis to Revelations. The first commission Jesus give to His church was, "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils. As freely as you have received, freely give," Matthew 10.
The last commission Jesus gave to His church... Listen, friends, the last words that fell from the sacred lips of Jesus, said, "Go into all the world," that's Zurich, everywhere, "and preach the Gospel. These sign shall follow them that believe." Now, these signs "may not" follow them; He said, "These signs shall follow them."

L-9 What, what signs? Organizing churches? He never commissioned that in all the world. God's church never was organized. That's man's doings to keep God out. He never said, "Build seminaries." He didn't say that was a sign would follow. Here--here's the sign He said would follow, Mark 16, the last words from His lips. He said, "In My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; if they would take up a serpent, or deadly thing, it would not harm them. And if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That's the last word that ever fell from Jesus' mouth. He was received up in glory.


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