<TITLE>02. Par 7-11</TITLE>L-7 Our blessed Lord had just met some of His critics. And when they heard His claims, it brings out a mixed multitude. It always has and it always will. Where the Gospel is proclaimed and the Supernatural is done, especially, brings a mixed multitude, some believers and some unbelievers.
And in this case, many of the scholars of those days, very cultured men in the Scripture, that is, in their own theology, the Pharisees and Sadducees, not men of bad reputation, but men of good reputation, men that must live lives above reproach to hold their office in the house of God.
They were men who had to be borned out of a certain lineage of people, before they could become a priest. And their fathers had to be priests before them.

L-8 But yet, it is possible for a good, cultured man, very scholarly in his Bible teaching, yet to be an unbeliever. For I do not expect tonight that we have many men in America tonight that could compete with the scholarship of those priests of that day, for they were learned men.
And they had to be found blameless when it come to morals. They knew their Scriptures, just like they know catechism today. But yet, in all this it's possible that men could be ever so sincere, and be ever such a Bible scholar, and yet be wrong in their teachings. For it proves that they could be.

L-9 And these Pharisees had heard of the great, marvelous works of our blessed Lord. But He seemingly had a new doctrine for them. And the most blessed thing we could think of now, that it was correctly the Scriptural doctrine of the Bible. And God was working with Him, confirming the words that He was preaching. That's what makes the difference, is God confirming what's being said. Man can make statements but if God doesn't confirm that Word, then it isn't so. God always will confirm His Word.
But where the Supernatural is did, then it attracts attention of a mixed multitude of people. If we only had time, we could go down into Egypt and see when Moses and Aaron... While they were in Egypt, the Supernatural was done. A mixed multitude followed them in the wilderness, which finally perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
But God has always confirmed His Word. And the living God lives in His Word and makes His Word real in every generation.

L-10 They had been accusing Him of being a demon or Beelzebub, as the Bible states it. And Beelzebub was the prince of the devils. And the reason that they called Him that, is because He was endued with a certain power, that He could look down through His audience and know men by name. He could also tell them the thoughts that were in their hearts.
And a well-trained, elected Jew came to Him by the invitation of one of Jesus' disciples by the name of Philip. And he found his friend, Nathanael, praying and brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus saw this man, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
And he said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" It was--astonished him.
And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw thee."
And then, this man who was a staunched Hebrew, knowing the Scriptures in its right light, said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel!" because a Supernatural act had been did, and he recognized that to be the Messiah.

L-11 But the Pharisees said, and the scholars, and the intellectuals of that day, said, "This Man is Beelzebub. He does these things through the works of the devil or the power of the devil."
And Jesus said, "If Satan can cast out Satan, then his kingdom is divided."
And as far--as for myself, that satisfies me to know that Satan has no power to heal at all. For healing is creation. And Satan is not a creator. He can only pervert what God has already created. God is the only Creator.
Therefore, there is no healing but Divine healing. Medicine does not build or make creation. Medicine kills germs. But operation removes a--causes. But God does the healing. "I'm the Lord Who heals all of thy diseases."


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