<TITLE>18. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 Then when Jesus came--a black name behind him as an illegitimate child, being born out of the holy wedlock, an outcast, and so forth... And here He comes forth, discerning the hearts of the people, and telling them their thoughts, and perceiving their thoughts, and doing exactly what God said He would do and the prophets said He would do. Then they said, "This man is a devil."
See, they said... They had to answer to their congregation. They were standing there. They... It was beyond a doubt that He was doing it, so they had to make something another. So they just said... Instead of studying it out in the Scriptures that... Jesus said to study the Scriptures. "Search the Scriptures. They are they which testify of Me," He said. Instead of doing that, they answered to their congregation, "He is Beelzebub, the chief of the devils."
Now, anyone knows that a fortuneteller is a devil. That's all. It's a devil spirit. But see they were calling the Spirit of God a devil spirit. And that's the reason Jesus told them that was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost and could never be forgiven. See?

L-54 Now, and so He'd done these signs, and they was... He was rebuking them, because they had not believed it. They--they wanted to... They--they could not believe. And yet the Jews were commanded to seek for that kind of a sign.
Now, don't the Bible say the Jews seek signs, the Greeks wisdom? Paul said, "And we preach Christ crucified." See? The Jews would seek signs, because they were commanded to do so. That's the reason they were doing it, so they would not miss their Messiah (See?), because He was to be a Sign to the church, to the people. And He had done exactly what He was supposed to do, and yet they did not believe Him, because of their tradition. So Jesus was rebuking them for their unbelief. They should've believed it, but they did not.
And we find out that in all generations, everywhere, in all generations, where God appears, supernatural signs come. There never has been a revival... Take Luther, Wesley, whoever it might be. Divine healing and great signs and wonders accompanied every revival, for God is supernatural, and where the supernatural is, supernatural will be done. And the reason it's supernatural, because supernatural spirit gets a hold of the people and performs supernatural things. See? God is a Creator, and if He is in our heart, why, the Spirit will always say "Amen" to His Word.

L-55 Now, in the Old Testament they had--they had two ways of knowing whether a man was right. First they had a law. There's the ten commandments. But if a prophet prophesied and then... a dreamer dreamed a dream, they had another way of finding out. No matter how good it sound (See?), they had a way of supernatural. God always a vindicated Himself. Don't forget this. See? God a vindicates Himself by supernatural, all ages.
Then here come a man that was a prophet, and he'd prophesy, and it sounded just so real with his theology. It sounds so real that it was perfect. But you see, in this day they'd been four hundred years without a prophet. So they said... They got a bunch of man-made theology. I don't say this to disregard: but, brethren, that's what we got into again (See?), just man-made conception of what church ought to be, what Christ ought to be. Not to be different now, if I said that just to be different, then God have mercy on my soul. I ought to be down here at the altar. But I've got to tell the truth. See?


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