<TITLE>06. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Our Lord had just been called by the--the doctors of His day, that is, the theologians, Beelzebub. And He had been upbraiding the city that He had just been preaching in, and performing signs and wonders, as we read the other night of what His ministry was in His day, how that He was able to discern the thoughts of the heart by the Spirit of God.
And the--the church people of His day thought He was a mind reader, or a witch doctor of some sort, and called Him an evil spirit. And our Lord said, "If you say that to Me, I'll forgive you, but someday the Holy Spirit is coming, then He will do the same work that I do, and then one word against that Holy Spirit doing the same work, will never be forgiven unto a man in this world, nor in the world that is to come." He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works."

L-19 Now, what is the works of the Father? Now, He plainly declared it, that how He represented His ministry to the people, was by the--the spiritual people. Now, there is two churches: there's the church natural; there's the church spiritual. And mixing those together, which there's no way to segregate them, as Jesus said, "A sower went forth and he sowed seeds. Some sowed good seed, and a evil man sowed tares. And the husbandman, which was the pastor, said, 'Shall we pull out the tares?' He said, 'You'll root up the wheat with it. Let them grow together.'"
So there's no way of separating church natural and Church spiritual. But the Church spiritual is the elected Church, called out and set aside by God alone. And they are the ones that will hear the Word of the Lord.
No matter how hard--it seems strange to say it--but some men are predestinated to eternal destruction; the Scripture says so: "Men of old, foreordained to this condemnation, to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness," in the chapter of Jude. So we don't like to think those things, but there's some people who will never be saved, no matter what you do, and they're very religious.

L-20 And the antichrist spirit is a religious spirit; don't forget that, dear people. And how blessed are your eyes that do see, and hear, and understand; for you cannot understand, unless God reveals it to you. For the whole church is built upon a spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ being the Son of God.
Every time you hit it, you hit mixed multitudes, especially when supernatural's done. Moses went out of Egypt with supernatural; a mixed multitude went.

L-21 Luther, many of you Lutheran people, why, history claims it wasn't a mystery, how that Martin Luther protested the Catholic church and got by with it, but how he could hold his head above all the fanaticism that followed the revival.
And that's what it is today. And you non-Pentecostals, that what it's... Let me say this as a Baptist: what I know of, the Pentecostals has a lot of nonsense. They have a lot of flesh and a lot of carrying on, but brother, there is a genuine Holy Spirit among them. That is right. So you Pentecostals, that can hold your head in the--into Calvary, and into the Word, and not on sensations, but according to the Word, and still walk before God, blessed are you. You've got the cream of the crop--Spirit and Word.


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