<TITLE>27. Par 270-283</TITLE>L-270 His First Pull was healing the sick. He become a very popular man. Everybody believed Him, seemed like. Is that right? When He went forth healing the sick, everybody wanted Him in their church.

L-271 But one day He turned around and started prophesying, for He was the Word, and He was the Prophet that Moses spoke of. And when He went to tell them, and tell them how they was living, and the things they were doing, He become very unpopular. That was His Second Pull.

L-272 Wonder if it has typed right back again? Just think a minute. Could it be? The First, healing, everybody. The Second: "Oh, it could be Jesus Only. It could be Beelzebub, it could be a..." That's the same thing they did there. See? Same spirits living in the same kind of people, condemned people that can never be saved, because they were condemned before; they, like Judas Iscariot, born the son of perdition.
You say, "Judas?" Sure.

L-273   Remember, he was very religious, but he couldn't go all the way with the Message. He could take part of it, but the rest of it he couldn't stomach. They can take healing and things like that, but when it comes to God speaking squirrels into existence, then that's too deep for them. "Can't be!" That was Judas. His spirit can live right up to that spot. He can't go it after that. See?

L-274 They could take Moses all right when he opened the Red Sea, and so forth like that. But when it come down to telling, they wasn't, all the rest of them wasn't to do this or that, or the other: "He makes hisself a God, over us." See, they couldn't go that, Korah and them. So, they had to have a organization, so God just swallowed them up.

L-275   Jesus' ministry, when He was healing the sick, "He was wonderful, that young Prophet of Galilee! Why, He makes the blind to see. He's even raised the dead. We got three cases of it. He actually raised the dead."

L-276 But one day He turned around, He said, "You generation of vipers. You make the outside of the platter clean. You appear to be holy, but the inside of you, you're nothing but a bunch of snakes." Oh, when that prophecy went forth, condemning that organization, then it changed. They turned against Him. That's right. And finally, by rejecting Him, they crucified Him.

L-277   But you can't kill the Ministry. It lives on. You can put the messenger to sleep, but you can't put the Message. Uh-huh. Right. He lived on. And notice when the Third Pull of His ministry come. The First was healing the sick.

L-278 The Second was rebuking the organizations, and prophesying; what they had done, what they were, and what was coming. What is, what is, will come; and what was, what is, and will come. That's what He done. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-279 But His Third Pull was when He preached to the lost that couldn't be saved no more. They were down there where them big, painted eyes was, "Ooh, ooh!" Preached to the souls in hell, that did not accept mercy, but were Eternally separated from the Presence of God. But yet they had to recognize it, what He was, because God made Him there.

L-280 Wonder if His ministry climbs out the same way in the last days, as it was? "As the Father sent Me, so send I you. The works that I do shall you also."

L-281   Lost, could never be saved. They had rejected mercy. That was His Third Pull.

L-282 Now is there any question? His First Pull, He healed the sick. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] His Second Ministry, He was prophesying. His Third Ministry was preaching to the Eternal lost. The three mountains, so forth; the lost, Eternal!

L-283   Noah's ministry, all ministries, done the same. Noah preached. That exactly right. He went into the ark. And when he went into the ark, there were seven days that nothing happened. His testimony preached to the doomed.


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