<TITLE>04. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 Now, God through all ages has had a way of manifesting Hisself to each and every generation through the ages. He... There at the day of the judgment there will not be one excuse for anybody at any time. The infinite God has manifested Himself to every generation in some outstanding peculiar way. And God in sundry times, in divers manners spake to the fathers by the prophets, in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus. He's always made a way, and it's always been the supernatural that has attracted the attention of the foreordained believer and blinded the eyes of those who are ordained to damnation. That's exactly right. You cannot believe unless God calls you to believe. That's exactly right.

L-17 The Scripture cannot fail. Jesus never come to earth just to say, "Well, I'll die and see who will be--will have mercy on Me and maybe they'll get saved." That wasn't the idea. He come to die, who the Father by foreknowledge knew who would be saved; and He come to save that remnant that God before the foundation of the world knew that would be saved. That's exactly right. Said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." That's right. Not him that willeth or him that runneth but God that showeth mercy. That's correct.
Now, back in the ages we want to base this little message around this: that back in the ages gone by, that God when He sent something to the earth to declare Himself to the peoples, if the people in general accepted it, they had a great time of jubilee. If they turned it down, they was rejected.

L-18 Jesus here had been speaking to the people and doing miracles. He was able to discern the thoughts of the people. And the well- trained scholars of that day of the church said He was Beelzebub. Now, when you go home, read this chapter and find out those scholars did not say out loud He is Beelzebub, but they thought it in their hearts that He was Beelzebub. And Jesus could discern their thoughts. The Bible said so. They was just thinking it.
You don't have to say it out loud. God knows your thoughts. They were thinking in their heart that, "that man is a spiritualist. He is a soothsayer or some great chief demon, Beelzebub."
And Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, then He begin to tell them, "Can Satan cast out Satan? If he can, then his kingdom is divided against himself."

L-19 Then He made this altogether great statement, "If you call Me Beelzebub, I will forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come, and you blaspheme That, there is never forgiveness, not in this world or in the world to come you will never be forgiven for it."
Now, in the Gospel of Saint Mark, as He quoted it, He said, "Because they called Him an unclean spirit..." The works that He was doing, discerning their thoughts, and showing signs from God, they called it a devil, an unclean spirit. The work of God was considered an unclean spirit. And Jesus said it's blasphemy which can never be forgiven.


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