<TITLE>09. Par 73-81</TITLE>L-73 And Jesus said, "You do error," to the great doctors of divinity, to a religious nation where literally millions were believers, He said, "You do error, not knowing the Scriptures neither the power of God," to a generation like that, that were well trained men, that were scholars and raised the church... When a child was born, it was the property of the church. You had to be an Israelite. Eight days after your birth, it was circumcision, and you were an Israelite to begin with. And the priesthood came from the Levites, which were trained through hundreds of years in the Scriptures. Yet Jesus said, "You do error, not knowing the Scriptures." They knowed them in their own book of learning; they knowed it by their catechisms; they knowed it by their own theology. But Jesus said, "You don't know It, the Scriptures; neither do you know the power of God. If you'd have knowed Abraham, you'd knowed Me. If you were Abraham's children, you'd know Me, because Abraham rejoiced when he seen My day, for he foreseen the day. When I stood before him back there in a body of flesh and performed this, he knew it was Me, and he called Me Elohim. But here I do the same thing before you, and you call Me Beelzebub."
"Oh," they'd say, "we have Abraham to our father."
"Called Abraham your father?"
He said, "Why, we--we belong to the church. We are a religious nation. We are a great people. We are God's people."
Jesus said, "You are the devil; he's your father."

L-75 But I liken that generation to this one today when there is literally millions of people that profess Christianity, and know no more about God than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight. There's men and women today, literally millions of professing Christians that claim Christ, don't know the first principle of the power of His resurrection, and never tasted His goodness. They've never felt His power. Their eyes are blinded to the Truth.
Said, "You are blind, leaders of the blind. Won't... If the blind leads the blind, won't they all fall in the ditch?"

L-77 Then they thought, "We are Christians. We are believers. We belong to the highest churches there is. Our rabbis are the best trained scholars they are." And yet Jesus told them they didn't even know the Scriptures.
See how God's hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and reveal it to babes such as will learn? Oh, the great power and the infinitcy of God. How good He is to those that desire to walk upright before Him. He'll withhold no good thing.
And to see the day that when our nation and our world is corrupted with the same thing...

L-80 Jesus wanted correctly straighten them. They said, "Oh, Abraham is our father. And we'll be in glory; don't you worry about that, because we believe in God. We are professors, and we believe in God, and we teach our people. And who are you to come around here with a--a mysterious little old sign and try to call it God? You are nothing but a Beelzebub." There you are. They had their creeds and their denomination. Jesus told them, "You're the devil." Think of it.

L-81 And I'd liken that generation to this today when we got millions joining churches, we've got tens of thousands. And God comes down to live in His church again, and to do the same things that He did there to make Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever, and people turn their backs from it constantly, some to be popular, some to keep from making a choice. It's forced to the people. You have to make a choice. You can't stand neutral. You've got to say "yes" or "no." You'll never leave that door the same person you come in. You can't do it. You got a choice to make. Make it for Christ this morning.


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