<TITLE>20. Par -</TITLE>L-771-127 Now, in St. John the 9th chapter, I want to read from the 26th verse unto the 35th. And now, just for a few minutes and then we'll--we'll close in the next twenty or thirty minutes, or maybe before that time, the Lord willing. Now, I want to read these Scriptures now from St. John 26 to, St. John 10--9:26-35, I've got wrote down here, just something I was thinking of.
Then said they unto him again, What did he do to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
And... He answered them, l have told you already, and you did not hear: wherefore would you hear... again? will you also be his disciples?
Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciples; but we are Moses' disciples.
We know that God spake unto Moses: but for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvelous thing, that you know not from whence he is, and yet he has opened mine eyes.
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Since the world began has it not heard that any man has opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
Then answered--They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether borned in sin and does thou teach us? And they cast him out.
And... Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

L-771-128 Now, I'd like to speak just for a few minutes to you brethren, knowing that my little talk here (I don't know what will become of it.), trusting that God will use it in some way, and now in this, upon His Word. So I know that Brother Sink, Brother Neville, or one of you ministers usually preach. And just being here with you, I, if you'll pardon me, I'd just like to speak to you a little bit on this manner.
Now, I want to take a subject here of "Taking Sides With Jesus." The Pharisees and leaders of His day always tried to belittle Him before the people. That was just a way that the devil had of working. All the Pharisees and the teachers of His day constantly tried to belittle Jesus. They... All the throw-off that they could give to Him, they done it. They watched Him constantly to find where they could find a fault, and they never spoke of His good things; they were always finding something that they could belittle Him about and say, "You see, looky here. If he was a man of God, he wouldn't do it this a-way," or, "If he was a man of God, he wouldn't do it that way." They were trying to cast a shadow upon Him to get the people to disbelieve Him. That's the work of the devil, and that old scheme has never ceased.

L-772-130 There's many times that a minister will make a mistake. And if he comes into a neighborhood, a precious brother who's trying to do what's right and to lead the people right, everything that the devil can point to the unbeliever or the so-called Christian in that neighborhood to throw off on that man, he'll do it. You know, the real Christian way is to hide everything you can from a brother. Don't tell his bad things; just tell his good things. Just tell what you know about him that's good. If anything's bad, let it alone. The poor fellow's got enough against him anyhow. Don't try to take a pole and shove a man further into the ditch. The Christian attitude is to pick him up and take him out of the ditch. See? Don't never try to shove him down; he's down already. Try to help him up. And... But too many of us today, too many people today, I might say, try to do that. If they could just get something another that they could say that was real bad.


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