<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>58-0517E, The Sin Of Unbelief, Bangor, ME, 87 min
L-1  Let's remain standing just a moment if you will for prayer. Dear God, we are grateful for this another privilege to be this side of eternity to preach the Word of Thy Son again. And we would ask tonight that You would speak to us in a special way through Thy Word. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed] May we have the grand fellowship of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and in our message tonight. And may this--those who are needy find that which they really need. We pray that You'll heal the sick tonight also, Lord. Get glory to Thyself, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. (May be seated.)

L-2  After that wonderful time of fellowship this morning at the Full Gospel Businessmen's breakfast, we just had great fellowship; and we thank the Lord for that. And now tonight, seeing that many of you are standing... And when we come up, there were people out on the street leaving without room to be in. So we want to hurry up just quick as we can. And I heard from my son, who was waiting for me at the door, that I--I'm to speak again tomorrow afternoon, I think, at this place. For just a short time, the Lord willing, I will speak on the subject then: "Why Must I Be Borned Again," just a little Gospel message, shortly, not over twenty-thirty minutes: be out by three-thirty so you can go home and rest up again for tomorrow evening. Tomorrow evening we expect to have a healing service, and then on through until following Wednesday night.

L-3  I wish to read tonight a little Scripture, just to get the setting of--feeling of the meeting, found over in Saint Matthew 12, the 42nd verse, just to get a background of what we want to say, a little context.
And the queen from the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost part of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
I would like to take the text tonight, if the Lord willing, on the subject of "The Sin Of Unbelief."
And there's really only one sin, and that is unbelief. Many times we think that sin is drinking, and gambling, and committing adultery, but that isn't sin; that's just the attributes of unbelief. A man does that, and a woman, because they do not believe the Lord Jesus. If they believed the Lord Jesus, then they would not do those things. So sin, what we call sin, is the attributes of unbelief. And there's only two spirits that control a man: that's either his faith or unbelief. Each of us tonight is possessed with one or the other of those spirits.

L-4  And unbelief is such a horrible thing. And Jesus here had just been teaching to the people and upbraiding them because of their unbelief. And in the previous chapter He had said, "Thou Sidon and Capernaum, which are exalted into heaven shall be brought down to hell, for if the mighty works had been done in you, and to Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities... If the mighty works had been done in--in Sodom and Gomorrah that had been done Capernaum," said, "it would been standing to this day." So why wasn't Sodom and Gomorrah standing? They had an angel; they had a message of deliverance. They had a prophecy, the warnings of God, and they failed to receive it. And today Sodom and Gomorrah lays in the bottom of the Dead Sea, not even any ruins of it left. That's the result of unbelief. And Jesus said, "A greater than that message is here now." And still they don't believe it.


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