<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 So I set down and I addressed him, after he first told me he thought I was a devil (See?), a soothsayer, which would be a devil, of course. So he said, "You..." I--I said, "Dear beloved brother, I was glad to get your letter. I'm always glad for friendly criticism. It helps me." Helps you if you'll just take it that way. Yes, sir. Let somebody criticize you, might have some spots that ought to be cleared up.
I said, "I'm very happy to get your letter. And you must think something of me or you wouldn't have wrote to me." I said, "And then, another thing that I admire you for is your fifty years of service for my Lord." And I said, "I--I am certainly respect that with high respect." I said, "Then another thing," I said, "you must love Him, or saying that the crowds that I stood before and my theology." I said, "You must've thought something of the Lord and love Him, because you wouldn't have tried to correct me (See?), 'cause you love Him; you don't want His work going on wrong." So I said, "You must love me."

L-5 And I--I said, "Now, the first thing I'm going to say to you: I forgive you for calling me a soothsayer," I said, "because... and a devil. Because you remember, Jesus when He was doing that very same thing, saying, that 'I can do nothing except I do what the Father tells Me,' and with seeing the visions and telling the people what, who they were, and what they were, and what happened, and so forth; the Pharisees said that was the works of the devil. It was a soothsayer, a Beelzebub."
"And you know what Jesus said to them? He said, that, 'You speak that against Me, the Son of man, I'll forgive you: but when the Holy Ghost is come you speak against Him, it'll never be forgiven him then.'" I said, "What if I was right? Just say what if I was (See?), then what have you done? See? There'd never be forgiveness in this world, or the world to come, according to the Scriptures which cannot lie. See?" Well, now... Now, that's the blaspheme of the Holy Ghost. It's call the works of God, an unclean--by an unclean spirit. See? And so...

L-6 Now, I said, "Just to straighten you up, brother," I said, "I'd just like to ask you something: I'm surprised that a Lutheran dean would base his theology upon some sort of an experience." Why, I said, "In the Baptist church in the--in the first year of school we learned to base everything upon the Bible." I said, "All our theology must come off the Bible, and here you're trying to base your theology on an experience." Well now, I said, "To settle it, Jesus said, that the... Satan cannot cast out Satan. That settles it then. If Jesus said Satan can't heal, then I don't care what anyone else would say; that settles it. He can't heal; that's all."
And if you look at it, he can't, 'cause the only thing can heal is when it's being made, new cells developed and come back. Like you cut your hand, the doctor can't heal it. Certainly not. The medicine can't heal it. Takes God to heal it. You break your arm, doctor can't heal it. He just sets it, and God heals it. See? 'Cause there's only one Creator. And if you say that Satan can create, oh, my, where do you got yourself then? You got him equal with God. See? And he's a god then. If he can create, he can make himself. See? But he can't. He can create himself if he--if he could. But he can't create, he can just pervert what God has created. And so then he can't heal.


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