<TITLE>11. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 Now, it's very strange; my ministry in America doesn't have the taste to it to the people as it does in other lands. The American people... Now, I am not talking about this group, but the American people are intellectuals. See, that's the reason...
I heard this famous preacher, Billy Graham, which I believe to be a man of God, and I heard him say at his Louisville breakfast over there one morning; he said, "This is the standard. When Paul went in there and a conversion, he went back a year later and had thirty off of that one." Said, "I can go in and maybe (I might not get the numbers just right), but say, have twenty thousand conversions and go back in two months and not find twenty." See? Oh, how I wanted to say something, but I was just a little fellow setting back there.

L-45 Here's what it is. See, it's an intellectual conception of Christ. The intellectuals is all right, but brother, you'll never know Christ until the Spirit of God has come down beyond the intellectuals, and it's an experience of being born again. That's the reason the people can't believe in the supernatural and--and call it devils. It's because it's only an intellectual conception. "My sheep know My voice; a stranger they will not follow." That is true.

L-46 Not trying to say that Billy Graham's conversions is not right. I--I honor the brother and pray for him daily. God is using him. But did you notice spirits? God takes His man, but never His Spirit. You know the devil takes his man, but never his spirit. The spirit that was upon Elisha, come on Elijah; and upon Elisha, come on John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit that was on Christ, come down through the church. Just exactly. The spirit that was on those Pharisees in that day, intellectuals, knowed all the training like Saul, but when they seen Jesus telling the people where they had been, what they had done, and who they were, they said He was a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub. How many knows that to be true? Certainly. They believed it, their intellectual faith. Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil."
Now, but the real elected Jew, they said, when the miracle was performed... Like Nathanael, he said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
The little woman at the well (to represent the Samaritan nation), she said what? "Thou art the Messiah. Come and see this man. This is Messiah."
But the world said, "Away with such a man." The world proved what they thought and what's in their heart. They'd do the same thing tonight if they could. When they preferred a murderer in the stead of Jesus, it showed what the world was made out of. And the group that preferred the murderer in the stead of the Lord Jesus was a religious group, their very finest of church, the Jewish orthodox.
The high priest and all of them said, "Give us a murderer, and away with that guy." That expressed the heart of the world. But all men can't come to Christ. All will not believe, but there will be...

L-47 Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you also. Greater than this shall you do because I go to My Father. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet, ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." How many knows that's true? How many knows in Saint John 5:19, that Jesus passing through the pool of Bethesda where all the people were laying lame, halt, blind, thousands of them, went to a man laying on a pallet, and healed him, for He knew that he had been that way, and walked away from that group laying there. How did He say... What did He say when they questioned Him of it? What did He say? "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." That right? It was by a vision.


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