<TITLE>06. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 So Jesus found the teachers of His day, teaching things that wasn't so. And I believe if He come today He'd perhaps find the same thing going on. He'd find that there were people in the world... We're sorry to have to say it, but there would be people in the world trying to teach that, "Oh, them things was for another day." But they're not for another day. The Bible said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That settles it.
And when He said, "Whosoever will, let him come," that means whosoever. And we read again tonight Doctor Simon Peter's prescription for the cure of sin. In Acts the 2nd chapter he said, "This is for you, and for your children, and for their children, and for them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That settles it. Then the Holy Spirit, not a something to take Its place, but the same Holy Spirit is for every generation and every person that God calls. The Holy Spirit's for them.

L-17 Man perverts things. That's what man is. A man is a--in his fallen estate is worse than animal. Do you believe that? It proves it. Men will do things that an animal won't do. There is man. Now, man is not muscles. Say, "Oh, he is a man." I've seen men that weighed two hundred pounds didn't have an ounce of man about them. Man is not measured by his muscles; that's beast. Man is measured by character. A man is a man by character. That's the reason Jesus was the greatest Man that ever lived. There was nothing could ever measure to His character. But the Bible said, "There was no beauty that we should... when we looked upon Him, but we hid as it were our faces from Him." He wasn't a great stately kingly looking man but probably a little stooped shouldered Fellow. We--we hid as it was our faces. He was marred. But in His character there has never been nothing that could compare with Him. He was real Man.

L-18 You take the man when the white man first come to the west here, when he found the Indian out here living on his buffalo. The white man shot the buffalo just for a target. Just let a man get a hold of something or another, and he will pervert it. Just let God do something, then man comes around and perverts what God does. God set up a church once; man perverts it.
What is sin? Sin is truth--sin is... Unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Just take anything that's sin and you'll notice it's a--a righteousness perverted. Anything that man gets to tampering with, he perverts it from its original estate. And so, unbelief is nothing but faith perverted. Sin is faith perverted, righteousness perverted. When man gets a hold of it, that's what he does with it.

L-19 He takes the church of the living God, that Jesus died for, died that they might be borned again, might have fellowship, might be filled with the Spirit, might have the spiritual gifts working among them, and what does he do? He takes and sets him up a great big something somewhere, and explains all that away, and perverts it into no more than a lodge, a handshake, or a chicken supper somewhere. When God wants a church that's borned again, filled with the Holy Ghost and power, and signs and wonders following His Church.
I think that Jesus Christ ought to knowed how to set up a Church. He was the God of heaven made flesh among us. And when He was here on earth He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name they shall cast out devils; speak with new tongues; take up serpents; or drink deadly things, it shall not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Heavens and earth will pass away.
Men will rise and say, "That was for another day." But God's truth sails on and will forever. It'll be the same, because nothing can ever stop it. It'll move because it's God's Word. It'll never diminish.


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