<TITLE>07. Par 60-70</TITLE>L-60   Now, the disciples discussing with each another, what His works, had been done, and how that people had received it. That might have been their conversation, about Him being the Messiah. And there was no doubt in some people's minds. For instance, they might have said, "Now, Moses said the Lord our God shall raise up a prophet liken unto him. Whosoever will not hear this prophet will be cut off from the people. Now, we know that Messiah was going to be a God-Prophet. He was going to be a Man that would be a--a super Prophet. He'd be God of the prophets, but, yet, in action, He would be a Prophet, because the Word of God comes only to the prophet. 'The Word of God come to the prophet.'" Now, and then Him being... That was just the Word that came to the prophets, but He was the Word. See? That's the difference. So He had to be a Prophet.

L-61   And no doubt that they had discussed about when, Simon, when he first saw Him, and He told him who he was, what his father's name was. And, why, he knew that that Man didn't know him, so he knew that must be a prophet. And then when Philip saw this, and went and told Nathanael, and Nathanael come back to see, and what was going on. And Jesus spoke to him and said, "Behold an Israelite," out there in the audience, you know, standing with Philip, said, "in whom there's no guile."

L-62 He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" Other words, that was first time they'd ever saw Him.

L-63 He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Oh, my!

L-64 He said, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the Son of God, the King of Israel." Now, that made Him Messiah.

L-65   And then, course, there was some of the great orthodox standing by, that didn't believe this. And they had to answer to their congregation. They said, "This man is Beelzebub. He has the spirit of Beelzebub." And Beelzebub was a devil, which is a fortuneteller, or a witch. "And that's how he does that. It's a telepathy, that he reads their minds through witchcraft or something on that order, and this makes him a devil."

L-66 Jesus had said to them that all manner of blasphemy shall be forgiven the son of man, except blaspheming the Holy Ghost. See? And the Holy Ghost had not yet been given. So when the Holy Ghost would come, and would after the Atonement was made, and do the work that Jesus did, it would be an unpardonable sin to call that an evil spirit. Think of that. See? After...

L-67 Jesus, He was there to manifest the Word. Man was still in sin, just with an animal offering. And the life of the animal could not come upon the believer, because it was an animal, and this was a--a human. And the animal doesn't have a soul; the human does. And here was the King of souls, God Himself, manifested in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. And when He died, the Spirit of God come back upon the believer. And then a person that has opportunity to receive This, and then call the working of that Spirit, "the Devil," it's unpardonable. It can never be forgiven.

L-68   Now, my old southern mother, when I was just a little boy, before I was converted, she was a good woman then.

L-69 I had the privilege of leading my mother to Christ, and baptize her, and seeing her die, hold her hands while she died, and speaking of Jesus till she couldn't even speak no more, praise His Name. I said, "Mother, if you still love Him, bat your eyes," and she just bat her eyes, and the tears running down her cheeks, when she went to meet God.

L-70 And she used to say to me, before she knew better, "Billy, when the--the blaspheming of the Holy Ghost is the unpardonable sin," she said, "that means a human that would take his own life, he can't be forgiven for it." That was her idea of it. But later we understand that blaspheme is to "ridicule, or make fun of, talk about and to make fun of the Holy Ghost."


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