<TITLE>03. Par 18-26</TITLE>L-18 Now from Saint John 11, tonight, we draw this text: Then Jesus Came And Called. Jesus came.

L-19   Now we get a background of this picture tonight. It was Jesus, when He was a just a--a young man, He came to live with a family at Bethany; and it was Mary and Martha and Lazarus. And they had left their--their church, or their creed of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and had taken up with Jesus, and invited Him to their home. And Lazarus was a--a bosom friend to Him. And we're told, and that Lazarus also was a great listener to John the Baptist that was speaking of a coming Messiah. And so when Jesus came on the scene, and came to Bethany, they always entertained Him in this home.

L-20 Now, we're taught that Martha and Mary made little tapestries for the temple, and so forth, where Lazarus was learning to be a scribe, to write the letters of the law. On... They wrote it on skins then, like animal skin, parchments, and is rolled up in little scroll and stuck down in a little holder. And Lazarus was a very fine hand. And he could write these scrolls.

L-21 And Jesus was staying with them. And they had watched Him do so many things, had such confidence in Him, until they had just simply give their whole lives to Him. Though He was...

L-22   See, Jesus, of His day, was more ridiculed and made fun of, than the lowest cult there is on the earth today. There couldn't be anything with any lower and despised than Jesus. See? The churches hated Him. And they just didn't have no use for Him, at all, because He was constantly rebuking them, and called them all kinds of names, and breaking up their congregations. He just turned the world up-side-down, just to say. They was trying to find some fault, to accuse Him, and they couldn't find it. And yet He was... To them, "He was an illegitimate. He was born out of holy wedlock. He was an odd sort of a fellow. He had no worldly education, as to speak of, and yet called Hisself a prophet. And, oh, my, such a horrible fellow He was!" And every one of them was thumbs down on Him, everywhere.

L-23   Hasn't changed too much. See? As I said the other night, "The Devil takes his man but not his spirit." The spirit of people, that's in people, has lived before. If we was to be here for a couple of months, where we have a real study in the Scriptures, I'd like to prove to you that there isn't a cult on the face of the earth, today, but what I can't prove to you it started in Genesis, and show you its beginning. It's a seed, just like a vine growing up, all of them. And it comes right up to blossoming time now, and returning back to--to the seed again. So all these things that you see taking place on earth, they began in Genesis, for Genesis is the seed chapter of the Bible, the--the beginning.

L-24 So you see, those spirits, was upon those men back in those days, still live on men today. See? Satan takes the man, but the spirit lives on.

L-25   God takes His man, but the Spirit lives on. That makes Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. He took Christ Jesus, but the Spirit, Holy Spirit, come back, has been upon the people in the Church all down through the ages. See? Because, God takes His man, but not His Spirit.

L-26 Satan takes his man, and you find them same spirits. Watch their nature.


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