<TITLE>13. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 Now Philip... Nathanael was a well trained scholar. So he said, "Rabbi (which means "teacher"), when did You know me? How did You know that I was a--a--a man with no guile? (And I'd say today, "a honest, good man.") How did You know it?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, that's Jesus today.
You know what Philip said when He... I mean, Nathanael said when He did this? He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
Jesus said to him, "Because I've told you this, you believe? Then you'll see greater things than this."
You get it? There it is. See? He believed it, because he knew that the Messiah would be a God prophet: A man that stood and would prophesy and could foretell, foresee and forthtell. Also He would be Emmanuel.
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
He believed it, and he--his name is immortal among men tonight and his soul is immortal with God. He will live forever, because he recognized it at the beginning, and said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God."

L-48 Now, of course there were those standing by who didn't believe that. There were many of the priests standing by. Great men, religious men, good men stood by. And they had to answer to their congregation. They knowed the thing was being done, and that was more of a miracle than healing the sick. Because it could be that the sick could get up, but that could not be; it had to be some supernatural power. So instead of trying to explain it, you know what they did? They just classed it as the devil.
And they said, "He is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils. He does these signs through that." Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, and anybody knows that fortunetelling is of the devil. That's the devil and the devil's works. All right.

L-49 So he said, "He is a devil."
Jesus turned around and said, "You say that against Me, the Son of man; I'll forgive you for it. But (in other wise like this) there's coming a day that when the Holy Ghost will come, and He will do the same thing. And whosoever speaks one word against It will never be forgiven, in this world and neither in the world that is to come." See? It was new to them then. Now, Christ has died. Now, the Holy Spirit's here.
Then, read the next verse. "Because they call the Spirit of God an unclean spirit," called the Spirit of God, Who knew those things and was revealing it to the secrets of the heart as the God prophet was supposed to do, they said, "He is a evil person. It's a bad spirit in him. Some kind of a Beelzebub, a devil, that's in Him that's reading the minds of those people. That's what's doing that."

L-50 Oh, what a horrible sin--unbelief. Why, those people... There was nothing against their lives. They were holy, just priests in a lineage of priests. They had to be Levites; they had to be borned a certain... Their daddy, their grandfather, and their great-grandfather on back, had to be priests. They knowed the law; they knowed the Word, just exactly letter by letter, lived in it day and night from childhood up. No one could put a finger on their life. And yet, Jesus said, "You are of your father, the devil." Because they believed not when they seen the work of God going on. They... He condemned them, because that they believed not. The worse thing there is is to disbelieve God. That's the only sin there is: unbelief, to disbelieve it.


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