<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 He said, "I believe if them temple priests would have listened to Him, we'd been better off today."
And I said, "Then you believe... What about it?"
He said, "I believe He was a good man."
I said, "Rabbi, do you believe He was a good man?"
Said, "I'll go farther than that with you. I believe He was a prophet."
I said, "That's all I want you to say. Then He said He was the Son of God. And then, if He was a prophet, He can't lie. So therefore, you believe He was the prophet, the Son of God; He showed the sign of Messiah."
And he wouldn't talk to me no more, and he went in the place.
Oh, brother. What that love of money will do. What a love of some ecclesiastical form will do. But what the love of God will do then, to a heart that's willing to surrender to the will and ways of God.

L-23 Jesus had proved to them... Said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if do the works..." Said, "You listen to the works then, if you can't believe Me."
They said, "Him, being a man, makes hisself God."
Said, "If I do the works of God, then what you got to say about them?" in otherwise.
Now, we find that He did those things, those signs and wonders before them. And many of them... The Gentiles did not see them because they knowed nothing about a coming Messiah. But the Jews and the Samaritans seen that Messiahic sign. And as soon as they saw it, they said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel."
The woman at the well said, "We know that Messiah cometh and will do these things, but You must be his prophet."
Jesus said, "I am He." Oh, there never was a man could say that but Him. Never can be no more because He was the only One. That's right.

L-24 Now, and they failed to see it. And when they did see it, they made fun of it and said that He was doing that through an evil spirit, that it was Beelzebub. Other words, Beelzebub is a devil; in other words, the power of the devil, He was a fortuneteller. And they claimed to be a fortuneteller because He could perceive the thoughts in their minds, and tell them, "Why reason ye in your heart? I saw you when you were under the tree. Your name is Simon; your father's name is Jonas."
"Why," they--they said, "he's a fortuneteller."
And Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for saying that, but someday the Holy Ghost is coming. And to speak against That will not be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come." So the seriousness that we face in this day at the end time...
Speaking of the end-time, the sign that was given to Lot in his days would appear again in the last day, and Jesus standing there at that time performing it... And they said... Speaking about the days gone by and He upbraided the cities, and told them of their unbelief, and the hardness of their hearts. And then finally He begin to speak to them about God.

L-25 And God in all ages and all times has always had signs and wonders among His people. Not any time or any age... I want any historian to go with me back even to the Nicene Council, or even the Pre-Nicene Council in the history, and find out if any--any time down through Luther, Martin, John Smith, Moody, Sankey, Calvin, Knox, Spurgeon... Any time that they ever had a real pouring out of revival, they had the power of God manifested among them by signs, wonders, speaking in tongues, demonstrations, Divine healing, and so forth. Not one time...
And every time they started a revival, someone raised up and started an organization behind it, and it died, and never did come back again. Search the Scriptures, search the history, and find out if every time they ever organized the Christian religion, it died right there and never rose again. It can't.
God's either going to lead the church, or the Holy--Holy Ghost is going to lead it, or man's going to lead it. If you choose man, go ahead. God pulls His church right out. Pillar of Fire moves on, and the church moves with It.


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