<TITLE>28. Par 264-271</TITLE>L-264 Paul warned, the Gentiles was a branch. Now, I want some of you, if you will, to turn to Romans, 11th chapter, the 15th to the 27th verse, just so you can mark it down, you all. And then being it's late, I will quote this to you now just before leaving, because it's a... Now, Romans, if you want to put it down, 11:15 to 20--to 27. Paul told them, told, talking to the Gentiles there, the Romans, he said, "If God..." Now, listen as we're closing on the church ages. Paul said, "If God did not spare the original olive tree, but cut it off because of unbelief."... Is that right? What caused them to be cut off? Because they rejected Pentecost. Is that right? On the day of Pentecost they made fun and blasphemed the Holy Ghost.
When Jesus was here on earth, He said... They call--called Him Beelzebub, said He was a devil; "He's a fortuneteller," whatevermore.
He said, "I forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come don't you speak against It; 'cause you speak against It, it'll never be forgiven you."

L-268 And remember when Jesus commissioned His disciples not to go to the Gentiles (Is that right?), but go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
How did they condemn themselves? By blaspheming the Holy Ghost, calling the Spirit of God an unclean thing. Made fun of Him when they were dancing in the Spirit, and so forth, on the day of Pentecost. That same city that made fun of it, Titus killed them in there, and their blood run out the gatesway. They eat their own children and everything in that same century. That's right. One of the greatest nations of the world become the lowest, and scattered to ev--four winds of the earth. Because why? Unbelief. And that was the original stump, the original tree, Israel.

L-270 And don't Paul say there? Who's got the Scripture right there? Got it, Pat? Stand up and read from the 15th to the 27th verse.
[Brother Pat reads the following Scriptures:
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were graft in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Boast not thyself against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then. The branches were broken off that I might be graft in--Ed.]

L-271 [Brother Pat continues to read:
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,...]
Listen, "Unbelief." All right, go ahead. 
[And thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graft in: for God is able to graff them in again?
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were graft contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graft into their own olive tree?]
Hmm.
[For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written. There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins--Ed.]


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