<TITLE>15. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 And he said--he said, "Well, He took something that didn't belong to Him. Wouldn't that be a thief if you took something that didn't belong to you?"
I said, "Rabbi, do you mean to tell me you don't know your own Levitical laws? He never broke none of the law, God's laws. The law says that you can go through a field and eat, but don't put any in a bag and take it out." His own law. That conquered him.
He said, "Tell me, what did you do to John Rhyn?"
I said, "I never done nothing. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, opened his eyes."
"He's no Son of God."
I said, "Why isn't He?"
He said, "You Gentiles can't cut God in three pieces and give Him to a Jew."
And I said, "Well, we're not cutting Him in three pieces."
He said, "Aw, you're sure trying to."
And I said, "Rabbi, do you believe your prophets?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Isaiah 9:6 said what?"
"Unto us a Son is born."
I said, "Who was he talking of?"
He said, "Messiah."

L-56 I said, "Then what will Messiah be?"
Said, "Messiah will be God."
I said, "Tell me where Jesus failed to prove that He wasn't that?" That got him. I noticed him as he was standing there a few minutes. I said, "There's one thing sure. You know that John was blind. You know he now sees. And I say that nothing I could do, but it was Jesus Christ, the Son of God, your own Messiah that you turned down. Like your fathers did, so have you, Rabbi."
In a few minutes, he said, "If I preached that kind of stuff, I'd..." The school was up here on a hill, looking down towards the lake. Said, "I'd be down there, begging down there in the street."
I said, "Rabbi, I'd rather be preaching the truth, and down there laying on my stomach drinking branch water and eating soda crackers, than to have fried chicken three times a day, and my name in gold on this building up here, and know I was in error." That's right. Yes, sir.
As he started away, great big tears was dropping off his beard. He started walking, and he said, "I'll see you sometime."
I said, "Wait a minute, Rabbi."
He said, "I will see you later." He wouldn't talk to me.

L-57 That's it. He stayed with the Word. No matter what He done, He was still in the Word, for He was the Word. Then those people disbelieved Him, and told Him He was Beelzebub, the devil, all kinds of evil words.
Well, if He should come into the church today, the unbeliever would say the same thing. So you see where it comes from? And those men that said that were holy men, acting holy; they lived clean, and they were sincere. Sincerity isn't it. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man (See?), but the end is the ways of death."

L-58 So Jesus was standing there rebuking them for calling Him Beelzebub. He perceived their thoughts. They didn't say it out loud; He perceived their thoughts, and He said--told them about it. And then they walked up to Him. After all that He had done, and showed them the correct sign of the Messiah, and the works followed it, exactly what it was said He would do; then they walked up, and said, "Master, we would see a sign from you." Oh, my.
Now, take this in Christian love. Take this from a heart full of love for you. But just a... It's chastening. How could we want to have a prayer line, run over here to some other meeting when we stood right here and seen the Bible manifested and the Presence of Jesus Christ right here among us? His attitude to one is to all. See? "But we would see a sign from you." That sign was done one time, and all the city of Sychar believed on Jesus Christ. But they never saw it done; they believed the woman's testimony, and she was a prostitute. One time, and thousands of times it's been done around the world now. Look at it.


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