<TITLE>11. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Now, don't notice my poor education; I'm not much of a preacher; but I do know Him. And I--I know Him in His resurrection. And I declare, that if you've ever received Him in any way, you know Him. But you--you must have faith in Him. Now, when He was here on earth... Now remember, He didn't claim to be a healer; He saw visions.
A woman touched His garment and run out into the audience, and Jesus said, "I got weak; who touched Me?"
Peter said, "Why, who touched You? Why, everybody's touching You."
He said, "Yes, but I got weak." Said, "Who touched Me?"
He looked all around through the crowd. Everybody denied; the woman denied herself; she said, "I never done it." All--all of them denied the Bible said; everyone denied a doing it. But Jesus knew that somebody there was telling something wrong. So He looked around till He found the little woman. She'd had a blood issue for so many years. He told her that her faith had made her well. Then she come and fell down at His feet and confessed all.

L-39 If that was Jesus yesterday, the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." If that's what He did yesterday, He will have to do it today in order to be the same. When He--when Philip went and got Nathanael, as we quoted last night. And he found him over around behind the hills, several miles, and brought him back. And when he come up and stood before Jesus, Jesus said, "You are a believer, a honest man."
Why, he said, "Rabbi, now wait a minute, when did You know me? You've never seen me in Your life, and how did You know me?"
"Why," He said, "before Philip called you, when you were under the tree over there praying, before Philip called you, I saw you."
He said, "You're the Son of God; You're the King of Israel."

L-40 But what did the church people say, the people of the big church? They said, "This Man is the chief of all the fortunetellers, the devils; He's Beelzebub."
And what did Jesus say to them? Listen now, for your own soul's sake. He said, "I'll forgive you for that. Who speaks against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven, but when the Holy Ghost comes, and if you speak against Him then, when He's doing the same thing that I am, that'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come."
Bible readers, is that true? It's the unpardonable sin. Why? 'Cause the Bible said that He was standing there with the Spirit of God doing these things, telling that man who he was and where he come from, and they said He was a fortuneteller, saying He had a unclean spirit: calling the works of God and unclean spirit, which is blaspheming. Anyone knows what blaspheming is. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost is the unpardonable sin which will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come. So if you don't understand, just keep still, and go ahead, and don't say nothing about it, be best.

L-41 A woman came one day, speaking to Him. Peter come up, and He knew who He was. He said, "Your name is Simon. Your--your father's name is Bar-jonas," said, "but you'll be called Peter from henceforth."
He knew as the Father revealed it to Him. Now, He said, "I don't do nothing but what the Father shows Me; and then what He shows Me, that I do."
Now, if that was the Jesus of yesterday, that's the Jesus today if He is risen from the dead. If He hasn't, then it's just a cold church formal creed like we all teach and go on, that's all. "One man lived long time ago, was called the Son of God; He died and rose again, but He's gone away. There's nothing to it no more; we just worship as a creed. We come to church and do the best we can, hoping that someday that there will be a manifestation of His presence."
That's not what He said. "I'll be with you; the things that I do I'll be doing in you to the end of the world." That's right. Shall we pray.


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