<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5  And then He referred to, and He'd just been called Beelzebub. And Beelzebub was supposingly to been the prince of the devils. And because that He was able to discern the thoughts of the people, telling them where they had been and what they had done, they said He was a evil spirit in Him doing that.
Could you imagine men and women who had be--set under the reading of the Scriptures through the years and had the great schools of spirit and would be in a shape till they would see such as that and nail it down as a devil working, when the Scriptures had plainly quoted that that's what it would be. And they were so took up in their own dogmas and in their own theology until they failed to recognize Him.

L-6  God in all ages has worked through men. And the reason that they didn't believe Him, because He was doing these great works of God, yet being a man. But it pleases God to manifest Himself through His subjects, for God is a Spirit. And God was manifested Himself through His Son the Lord Jesus. And they was trying to say that He made Himself God. And they said a man that would do this would be worthy of being stoned or killed (capital punishment, which stoning was capital punishment) and they just couldn't see how Him being a Man could do that.
And the world hasn't changed too much. It's still hard for people to see that God is a Spirit that works through men. God always has worked through man, all ages. He manifest Himself through Moses, and through Elijah, and through Noah, through Enoch. All through the ages God manifested Himself through His agency the man. And He promised that in this Gentile age He would manifest Himself through His subject the church. But the trouble of it is today, that each one wants to say, "That church that He was speaking of means, my denomination." And you won't allow it to the other fellow. But God doesn't work through denominations; He works through individuals.

L-7  And we find out here in the previous verse that He upbraiding and telling these people of their sin of unbelief, He said that--spoke of Jonah, and how that Jonah went to a city of a hundred and eighty thousand people. And God sent him down there with a message to those people. And most of us are familiar with the story how that he took the ship to Tarshish. And on his road down a storm came up. Oh, there's many times that we like to say that Jonah was all out of the will of God. And he might've been according to the commission. But God makes all things work together for good to them that love Him.
And He turned that disobedient prophet's journey into one of the greatest blessings that we can read of. As when the ship was about to sink, they tied his hands and feet and threw him out of the ship. And a big fish come through the water and swallowed him. And anyone knows after a fish eats, he goes to the bottom of the water and there rests his swimmers on the bottom. Feed your little goldfishes; watch them how they go down to the bottom. After they prowl through the water and get what to eat, then they go down and rest their little swimmers on the bottom. All fish does that.

L-8  And this great fish that God had prepared, which we believe to be a whale, when he had swallowed Jonah, he took off down to the bottom to rest, for it must have been pretty rough swimming up there in a great storm dashing the water from place to place. But he had found his belly full, so he thought he'd just go down and rest.
And I've often thought when I hear people say that, "Well, I accepted Christ as my Saviour, but, you know, I--I just can't live it." or hear one say, "I accepted Christ as my Healer, and I... Oh, I don't know, I--I just can't see that my hand's any better. My stomach with the ulcers doesn't feel any better. My head has not ceased to hurt." Then you've just in a mental conception accepted Christ. When you catch Christ in the heart, no symptoms bother you from then on. No matter what takes place you still call God's Word the Truth.


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