<TITLE>10. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 If I say the same words to you in language of today, I'd say, "Behold, there is a church man, a honest man, a truthful man." See?
"Why," he said, "now wait a minute, how did He know me?" So he said, "I believe I'll ask Him." He said, "Rabbi," or teacher, reverend, whatever you want to call it. He said, "When did You know me?"
"Why," He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
What did he say? He said, "Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel."
And Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe? You'll see greater things than this."

L-34 But what did the Pharisees said? They said, "That's mental telepathy, or He's the chief of all the fortunetellers." "Why," they said, "He's Beelzebub, and He knows this, because He's a fortuneteller."
What did Jesus say? He said, "All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to man, that blasphemed the Son of man. But whosoever shall blaspheme the Holy Ghost, is never forgiven in this world or the world to come." And the Bible said He said this because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." Know what a danger lays there? Be careful. So let's walk humbly. See, we don't play church no more; them days are over. We're living in church now. He said, "If you speak a word against the Holy Ghost, it'll never be forgiven you."

L-35 Now, Jesus had not yet been glorified. So the Blood cell wasn't broke. But he was blaspheming Jesus and said... What is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost now? Is to call the work of God, the devil. So be careful. That's never forgiven, nowhere at all, never can be forgiven. Anyone who would declare the works of God to be the devil, Jesus said, "That it's never forgiven." So be careful how you class God's work fanaticism, or mental telepathy, or the working of the spiritualist, or something like that, better be careful. But that was their attitude. And I'm sorry to say; it's still their attitude.

L-36 Now, remember, God never takes His Spirit from the earth. God takes His man, but never His Spirit. Did you know that? He took Elijah, and Elijah's Spirit come on Elisha. Is that right? It come on down on the--on John the Baptist, and predicted for the last days again. See?
The devil takes his man, but never the spirit, the same spirit. Remember, those religious teachers, and those fine ministers back there, very highly cultured and polished to the very limit, with all their degrees, yet that same kind of a spirit exists today, and it's of the devil.

L-37 What is sin? Unbelief. No matter how polished you are, if you try to place the days of miracles in the past, and there's no such a thing, and explain it away, there's only one word for you brother, you're a unbeliever. Correct, that's God's Word, just as plain as it could be. Now, I expect to be persecuted on it. Jesus said, "If they call the Master of the house Bel--Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of His disciples? You can expect it. And if it didn't come, we'd be very much disappointed; there's something wrong.
But now notice, now we go just a little farther as we go on, speaking of Him. We watch His ministry increasing. One day there was a woman with a blood issue. And she'd heard of Jesus. And Jesus had went over to raise a dead girl, crossed over the sea, raised this dead girl. And on His road to raise the girl, why, this woman with a blood issue had heard about Him, and she said, "If I can only touch His garment, I'll be made well."


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