<TITLE>11. Par 116-123</TITLE>L-116 Yet, they claim they believe, today, that He raised the third day. We speak of it, "Oh, we believe that He raised up, the third day, and He's alive forevermore." And let Him just do something just like He promised to do, look what they say, "Well, it's either a bunch of holy-rollers, or it's a mental telepathy, or it's some kind of a fortune teller. Or..." Just as they did then. See, it's that same spirit. Now, remember, the Devil takes his man but not his spirit, the spirit was upon them men back there, religious teachers.

L-117   Remember, nobody could put a finger against those Pharisees. They had to live right. They'd be stoned to death if they wasn't. They were fine, fine men, highly-educated teachers, scholars. And Jesus said, "You're a bunch of snakes. You do the works of your father." Why, why could a Man, God, ever make an interpretation to a man of that type? How could He ever say a thing like that? Because that they refused to see the identified Word made manifest.

L-118   Now, today, we've come, many times we've said, the--the Lutheran said, "When you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you have It. That's all." The Nazarenes, and Pilgrim Holiness, and the Free Methodists, said, "No, you got to shout, to get It." The Pentecostal says, "You got to speak in tongues, to get It." All of it's wrong.

L-119 I've seen witch doctors speak in tongues, and witches. I see them jump and shout, and seen Mohammedans run splinters under their fingers, and scream louder than ever heard Pentecostals in my life.

L-120 But, yet, believing is right, speaking in tongues is right, and shouting is right, and rejoicing. But that's not It, yet.

L-121 Them Pharisees, some of them said, "Well, it's the fruit of the Spirit, that's right." Them Pharisees had more fruit of the Spirit, what we call fruit of the Spirit, than they could, we could ever produce.

L-122   Who will you say, if I was going to put Him on trial now, say like some young fellow come into the city here the other day and calls Himself a prophet? Let's just put Him on trial for a minute. And now I'm talking to you people, against Him; God forgive me for saying such a thing, but just to make a point. I say, "This young Fellow, He's around out here. He calls Hisself a prophet. He comes up from Galilee. He does a lot of healing and things, but that don't mean anything. Look up here, we got the pool of Bethsaida. The crippled lay there, when that Angel comes down and troubles the water, anybody steps in. Why would God want something else besides that?" See, they fail to recognize the Word of that day. The promise was ready to be fulfilled.

L-123   Now they say, "We'll judge Him by the fruit of the Spirit. Now, look, who was it stood by? Who was it, when you were out running around, as a young man, he put all his time to study the Word of Jehovah? Your godly old priest. Who was it, when papa and mama was about to separate, they put their arm around one, and one around the other, and brought them back together? Your godly old priest. Right. Who was it, when your father's crops failed, and he didn't have no money, you didn't have nothing to eat; who was it wrote him a check and give him the money, or to tide him over? That godly old priest. Who was it stood by your mother and daddy, when you were born, when you first come in this world? That godly old priest. Who was it picked you up in the arms and circumcised you, the eighth day, and offered you, a life, to God? Godly old priest.


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