<TITLE>08. Par 71-80</TITLE>L-71   And Jesus here told them, said, "You can say those things and call me Beelzebub, that, I'll forgive you for that. But when the Holy Ghost comes after I'm gone, then it's unpardonable, to--to blaspheme that. And when He comes..." He, which is not a thought, now, it is a Person. He is a personal pronoun. He is a Person. "And when He comes, He will not pardon your transgressions for that. See? He will absolutely do the works that I do. He will continue My ministry. And He will teach you these things that I have taught you, and will show you things to come." See?

L-72   "For the Word of God," Hebrews 4, "is sharper than a two-edged sword, a cutting asunder even to the marrow of the bone, and a Discerner of the thoughts that's in the heart." The Holy Ghost discerns, see, because It is the Word. He is the Word. "And the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Oh, they should have knowed that.

L-73 Then, then all these things that they discussed, and how the woman at the well come up, and many other things, blind Bartimaeus, and the things that they had seen Him do. And then they must have been discussing that. And they were sold that that was the Messiah, no other man could take His place.

L-74 Because why? They had not had a prophet on the earth for hundreds and hundreds of years. And all at once, there rose a prophet by the name of John, taking no credit to himself, but pronouncing this, announcing this, rather, that, "The Messiah is right now among you. See? There stands One among you." Oh, my! He was determined that they would know that the hour was at hand.

L-75   John the Baptizer was a great man. You know his birth, and how he received the Holy Ghost before he was born, in his mother's womb.

L-76 While, Mary come, being a virgin, and told her that she was going to have a baby, and told Elisabeth about having the baby, and about how the Holy Ghost had appeared to her, the Angel of the Lord, rather, and had told her that she was going to be a mother also. And she said, "I'm going to have a Son, and I'll call His Name Jesus." And when she said, "Jesus," the first time that that Name was ever spoken in human lips. A little baby in his mother's wombs, dead, she was worried about it. No life, six months, that's altogether subnormal. But as soon as that Name "Jesus" was first spoken by a human lip, that little, dead John in the mother's womb come to life and leaped for joy, the Bible says.

L-77 If it'll do that to a dead baby, what ought it to do to a born-again Church that's filled with the Holy Ghost? Heal the sick, save the lost! See? "For as soon as thy salutation come into my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy," you see. And he was full of the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb. And this Holy-Ghost-filled man...

L-78   Although, his father was a priest. Usually, it was custom in them days for the child to follow their tradition of their father, or the occupation of the father. And now we find out that John, his work, was so important that he could not go to the school of the priests that his father had attended, because they would be saying, "Now, you know, Brother So-and-so here is bound... You're to announce the Messiah. This is Him. Why, you know this is Him, because, look, he's such a fine fellow."

L-79 It'd be about the same choice the disciples made on who would take Judas' place. See? It fell upon Matthias. They chose Matthias, by lots, but God chose Paul. See? It was different.

L-80   Notice. And we find out that his job was so important, till he went into the wilderness and stayed there until he was thirty years old. And when he came out, preaching, he knew what kind of a Person this Jesus would be. For, he--he stood there, and he was so sure that It was going to come in his day, until he said, "There is One standing among you, Whose shoes I'm not worthy to bear. He'll baptize you with the Holy Ghost and Fire."


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