<TITLE>16. Par 54-56</TITLE>L-54 Now, notice. They stood with their hands behind them. They knowed they had to answer. Because He didn't speak well of them, why, they said, "He does this through the power of Beelzebub."
Beelzebub's the devil, and anybody knows that fortunetelling is of the devil. All those things are of the devil. And everything the devil has is something that's perverted from real. The devil cannot create. He's not a creator. There's only one Creator; that's God.
He can pervert what has been created. A good woman can be in the world, moral and just. The devil can pervert her and make her and her a wicked one. What is a lie? Is the truth misrepresented. What is evil? Is righteousness perverted. That's what... What is unbelief? Is belief perverted. The devil perverts, but cannot create. He's no creator. There's one Creator; that's God. He could create anything he wanted to if he was a creator; but there's only one Creator, and that is God.
Now, we find those fellows there saying that this Man was doing this through the power of a devil. Listen. Listen close now. Don't miss this. Jesus turned to them, and said, "I forgive you for that (calling him a devil, calling the--the Spirit of God that was doing those works, a devil)." Said, "I forgive you. But someday the Holy Spirit's coming to do the same thing; and one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come." So you see where we stand? All right.

L-55 We notice that was Jesus yesterday. Oh, how we could go... How it was down there in the city of Jericho. I imagine little Zacchaeus got up in a tree and said, "Now, I'm going to watch Him pass by. But of course, I heard my wife say that--that He could discern the thoughts of the mind and things; but I don't want Him doing any of that on me, so I'll just set up here in the tree, and I'll watch."
But when Jesus, coming around Hallelujah Avenue and down Glory Road, when He turned the corner there, and here stood Zacchaeus up in a tree all camouflaged, maybe a leaf, just raised it up, looking out. "Oh, I'd like to see Him," he said, "when He passed by. I heard my wife say that He could speak the thoughts of the mind, and He could do these things. They tell me He's a prophet. But I tell you, He'd sure be some prophet to know where I was at. But I'll fool Him now. I've got behind these bushes here, setting on a forked limb."
That's where a lot of people sets: where your way and God's way meets. You got to take one of them.
Oh, see him setting up there, looking over this leaf, looking down. Jesus, walking straightly and quietly, come right under the tree and looked up, said, "Zacchaeus, come on down. I'm going home with you today." Oh, my.
That was Jesus yesterday. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. It'd be Jesus today.

L-56 Remember when He went to... He didn't do that himself. Saint John 19, we could go to that for... Well, we'll just go to Saint John 5:19. Jesus said, as He passed through the gate called Beautiful, and or the--the pool, rather, of Bethesda. (I'll get to that one in a few minutes, the gate of Beautiful gate.) But He--He passed through Bethesda gate where the pool was. And there was great multitudes of lame, blind, halt, withered, laying there, probably all kinds of afflicted people. The Bible said, "great multitudes." And He passed by them, never touched a one of them, yet full of compassion, full of love, walked around till He found a man laying on a pallet.
How many of you all know what a pallet is? Well, what part of Kentucky are you from? I was raised on one, sleep at the door in hot weather.


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