<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 Then we find also that He went to Samaria. And the Samaritans received that sign as He spoke to the woman and told her of her condition. And the Samaritans believed the testimony of the woman. Jesus did not perform any miracles in Samaria, because we find out later that Philip went down after Pentecost, and there he healed the sick. Jesus laid the foregrounds for it.
And if you'll notice, it's very strange in the proceeding--or the previous Scripture of this text tonight. When he was quoting Isaiah, the prophet, how that Isaiah said that he would be a Light unto the Gentiles.
That's very outstanding, for the very sign that He was showing was otherwise... In Doctor Scofield, in his Bible, in the footnotes, predicts that it will be at the last day when the Gentiles will receive the sign of the Messiah. Christ, being Messiah, they didn't get it in their day. We've only had day of theology, of...
We come in in the reformation of Luther. The Protestants and the Catholics come in after about six hundred years, or three hundred years after the death of the last apostle. They failed to get the Messiahic sign. 'Course they were Romans and Anglo-Saxons. And now...

L-17 But in here Isaiah spoke that it would be for the Gentiles in the last day. But Jesus was upbraiding these people, because that they had rejected to understand the Scriptures with all their great churches, and their great, mighty leaders, scholarships, priests of a certain lineage of priests, holy men that no man could lay one finger to their immorals of their lives.
But yet, in that, all that they failed to see the real thing. Now, if goodness and mercy, if holiness and righteous living pleases God, then He had to accept the Pharisee.
But, you see, my precious friend, sin is not immoral living. Sin is not drinking whiskey; sin is not committing adultery. You do that because you're not a believer. That's the attributes of unbelief. You do that because you're not a believer. But if you are a believer, you do not do those things. So there's only one original sin and that's unbelief. The Scripture says, "He that believeth not is condemned already."

L-18 You can't even get to the first base. You're condemned before you start, if you're not a believer in every Word of God. For if the Holy Spirit is in you, you are a believer. And the Holy Spirit that wrote the Bible would say, "Amen" to every promise. Everything that God says It'll "Amen" it back.
But if the Holy Spirit isn't in you, and you're just intellectually trained... Which I have nothing against it... Intellectual training, schooling, college, that's wonderful if you've got the Holy Spirit with that to back up what you're talking about. See? But as the Scripture said in the last days, "Having the form of godliness and denying the power thereof..."

L-19 Now, Jesus had met this type of people, and the sign had been given them. And they had classed it as an evil spirit doing it. They said, "This man is Beelzebub," in the same chapter that I just read. "This man does this; he's a fortuneteller."
Beelzebub was a devil, and anyone knows that fortunetelling is of the devil. But you see, it's a spirit. And the Bible teaches us, that in the last days that those spirits will be so close, it would deceive the very elected if possible. But watch them by the fruit that they bear. Fortunetellers are out there on the street making money. And they're guessing; and they're taking telepathy and mental psychology.
But the power of God preaches the Gospel and warns of the hell that there is before you, and a heaven to go to, and calls sinners to repentance, and heals the sick, and does good things. Then by their fruits you shall know them.


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