<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 The promise of the Holy Ghost is an assurance to you that you'll get It if you receive it that way. It depends on your attitude towards the Word. The Word is the--not the paper; it's just a Book, but it's--it's Christ made manifest on paper. That's what it is. God... "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us." See? And His Word's are Spirit and Life.
We just receive His Word just like it was He Himself. When I see His promise to me, that's Christ; I embrace It. He can't lie. To---to me that's exactly the truth. See? I might not know how to take a hold of It, but It's the Truth, and I hold right with It because It's Christ to me.

L-35 In our text tonight we find Jesus upbraiding and rebuking a bunch of people who had refused to believe that He was the Messiah. Though He had done many Messiahic signs among the people, and they had called Him just a previous two verse behind this, Beelzebub... And He said, "If you call Me an evil name, I'll forgive you. You see Me do..."
Let me kinda interpret this a way so you'll get what I mean. "You call Me... When I show you the works of God, you call Me Beelzebub." Now, Beelzebub is like a fortuneteller, a devil. "You call me Beelzebub; I'll forgive you for that." See? "But someday the Holy Ghost is coming to do the same thing, and you speak against That, it'll never be forgiven in this world, or neither in the world that is to come." There's the seriousness of what we're going through with today.
Oh...?... and He upbraided them because they had not received Him, and after He had done the works of God, and showed that He was the Messiah. Now, if He spoke those words, they are absolutely the truth.

L-36 Then in this day that we live in, where the Holy Spirit has come, and is doing the same works over again, you see where we stand tonight? It's--it's a horrible thing to think that people today will still call the work of God the devil. And Jesus was upbraiding them.
Now, if we'll go back a little bit in the Bible, we'll find out that God in all ages at all times has had gifts in His church. There never has been a time but what God... When He comes into His church supernatural things take place.
I know I'm speaking to historians. Brother Moore is one as good as I ever knowed of, hisself. And any time that the church ever had a revival, always the sign of supernatural is in the meeting. God heals the sick, speaks with tongues, and does other miracles and signs, every time they've ever had a revival. And even previous to the coming of Christ, every time that God sent a supernatural, or a move among the people, the signs of supernatural was among them.

L-37 So you see we're evangelical. We believe, we absolutely believe that God lives in His church and in His people. We believe that. And He shows the sign of the joy and power of the King in the camp. So through the ages they'd had all kinds of signs. And He referred to some of them here. One of them He said, "As it was in Jonas' time," called him Jonah.
Now, many people condemns poor old Jonah. And Jonah was a prophet. But I always felt sorry for him, because so many in this day condemn Jonah, and say he was out of the will of the Lord. So I'm going to take up for Jonah and say he wasn't out of the will of the Lord. I... You watch and see now; we're going to take his life for a few moments and examine it.


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