<TITLE>14. Par 131-140</TITLE>L-131   We find now, that, the Holy Spirit. Peter on the day of... before the Day of Pentecost, was given the keys to the Kingdom. We find out that he opened It to the Jews, on the Day of Pentecost. And he went down to Samaria, and opened It to them. Come back to the house of Cornelius, and opened It there. And he never had to do it no more; It was opened to the world, see, like that, the Holy Spirit. But you remember, Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans, and had baptized them in the Name of the Lord Jesus, only the Holy Ghost had not fallen upon any of them as yet; so they sent up for him that had the keys, and he layed his hand upon them, and the Holy Ghost came upon them. That's right. That's Jews, Gen-... them three races of people.

L-132   Now, we Gentiles, we were heathens, Romans, Greeks, and so forth. We worshiped idols. We wasn't looking for no Messiah. We had no time for no Messiah. We had our own gods, our forefathers. But the Jews were looking for a Messiah. And so was the Samaritans, because they were half Jew and Gentile.

L-133 Now, Jesus will appear to those who are looking for Him; only those, that's all. He is not obligated to the unbeliever. But to the believer He is obligated. He is obligated to raise the believer up, see, in the last day, only to the believer.

L-134   Now we find, that Jesus here had made Hisself known to the Jew. Which, we have many others, we could take blind Bartimaeus, but to save time... Were many of the others through the Scripture, exactly proving to them that He was the Messiah, by being a Prophet. "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto Me."

L-135 They had had no prophets. But those who had got away from the idea that He was a Prophet, had to give an answer to them, so they just said, "He was a--a devil, a witch, or, you know, some evil spirit doing that."

L-136 And He said that, "It was unforgiveable sin, calling the work of the Holy Spirit, 'an evil spirit, an evil thing,' that, the Holy Spirit coming and making His Word manifest."

L-137   Why? It had been prophesied that Jesus would do this very thing. When He told the Jews, He said, "Well, which one of you can condemn Me? Which one of you can accuse Me of sin?" Sin is "unbelief." If... He said, "Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are the Ones that testify of Me." They should have knowed it. They thought they knowed it; but, they didn't, they'd have knowed He was the Word right there. He could discern the very thoughts in their hearts, and so forth, and do just exactly what the prophets did.

L-138 Because, He was more than a prophet, He was the God of the prophets. He was the head and the--the last of the prophets. This day He speaks, Himself, through His Church.

L-139   Now if we notice in here, that, He identified Himself perfectly with the Jews, that He was the Messiah, by proving He was the Prophet. We know that. There is no other way. Not by His dress, not by His talk, not by nothing else but by being...
And then you say, "Well, He cast out devils."

L-140 He claimed that the Pharisees done the same thing. He said, "If I cast out devils, by the finger of God, who does your children cast them out by?" See? So they were casting out devils, too. See? So, but He was casting them out by the finger of God, said, "Then the Kingdom of God is come nigh to you."


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