<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Jesus had just been in a discussion. He was having a great campaign. And as such a campaign as Jesus would have, it brought out mixed multitudes. When the supernatural is done--has been done, rather, it causes mixed multitudes. It brings this class of people: believers, unbelievers, and make-believers. And it always has did that.
And in this great discussion He'd been presenting the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit. And many of the people had believed on Him. But as usual, there are those who would not believe. And the sad part of it is, my brethren, is to think of it in this light, that those people that cannot believe were ordained to that condemnation. That's the Scripture. If you are a believer tonight, you should bow your head in reverence and humbleness to thank God that He chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world. 'Cause, "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except My Father draws him." And God by foreknowledge, not willing that any should perish, but by foreknowledge knew who would, so He could predestinate from the beginning all things... Jesus come to save those who the Father saw before the foundation of the world that would be saved.

L-16 And therefore, these religious people, Pharisees, very religious teachers... Oh, if God willing, we want to get down in that this week in the Word. And notice, they were very highly educated, scholarly, holy, and yet unbelievers, religious men, teachers, priests. Their fathers, and their father's father's, father were priests before them. They had to be Levites to be a priest. They had to be renown, they had to be without blemish and without fault, holy men, but yet were considered, and were unbelievers. And Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil." The highest religious men in the world at that present time, Jesus said their father was the devil.

L-17 These men, all disturbed about the supernatural, they said, "It must be some sort of a setup." But when they seen that a mechanical setup wouldn't produce the evidence; therefore, they never spoke it out loud, they said it in their hearts. "He has the spirit of Beelzebub." Could you imagine a man so blind to the Scriptures, that would see the power of the Almighty God performing signs that only God could do, that were foretold in the Bible that would be done by the Messiah, and then call that Spirit an unclean spirit? They didn't speak it loud. They didn't have to speak it loud. Jesus knows the thoughts of your heart.
Notice it in the meetings. Watch in the meetings when evil arises, watch the Spirit pick it up, like last night, before it ever got started. It's the Holy Spirit.

L-18 And as this taken place, they reasoned in their hearts (25th verse) and said, "This man is Beelzebub," which is a great spirit of the devil, fortuneteller or something.
And Jesus said, "If they call the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of His household?" Because they've got eyes but can't see. They're scholars, learned, polished. But that isn't it. God doesn't come by knowledge. If that would've been so, in the garden of Eden when they eat from the tree of knowledge they'd know more about God than they ever did. By knowledge brings death. We only know God by faith. Has nothing to do with your education or any of your social status. It's only by faith are you saved, and that through the grace of God. Only by faith and by the grace of God can you believe God.


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