<TITLE>06. Par 45-55</TITLE>L-45 But these Pharisees, a few days before where our text is tonight, saw Him do that, and then called Him "Beelzebub, a devil." The works had been done. They had to answer their congregation, so the only thing they could do was call it "an evil spirit." Beelzebub was a devil, like a fortuneteller or something. And anyone knows that fortune-telling is of the Devil. And they was comparing, where He was the Word that knowed the secret of the heart and is--and is proving that He was that Prophet that was to be raised up to us in this day, the Redeemer-Prophet; and when He did that, the church in that day declared Him to be "Beelzebub."

L-46 You see what they was? He said, "You are blind, leading the blind." They won't come in, and neither will they let them that's under them come in.

L-47   What we want to do today is find out the Truth. We've got to know the Truth. Is He the same? Is He here to fulfill what He promised to fulfill? Search the Scriptures and find what He is supposed to do today.

L-48 That's the reason that John Wesley... or Martin Luther couldn't go on with Wesley's message; they organized it, that's as far as it could go. Along come Luther, out of Catholic church, and he they... He was a crank, to them; but he had the message of justification, 'cause It was the Word of God, a promise. Then they, after his death, they organized the Luther organization. Then what happened, it had got all cuddled up again.

L-49 And according to the Scripture there has got to be another church age raise, and, when it did, the Philadelphian Church Age raised, John Wesley. And what had happened, kept coming westward all the time. And when it happened, there was the church age, and John Wesley raised up, but Luther could not receive it because they was already organized to justification. He could not accept sanctification.

L-50 Then when the Wesleyans organized the way they did, and the little branches went off, which did, along come the Pentecostal message of the restoration of the gifts; none of them could move, they was already organized.

L-51 Now the pitiful part of it is, the Pentecostals so organized.

L-52   Look at the day we're living in, what's promised for this day. Where are we? We've moved on up. The Pillar of Fire moves, and the children of Israel moved with the Pillar of Fire or they went back to Egypt. We have got to move with the Word.

L-53 And today we're getting so slothful, the church is getting so worldly and so indifferent, and so their minds so muddled up with television, and We Love Sucy and some of these old things, and staying home. That shows where the people's hearts are. And you can tell them these things are wrong, and they think you're crazy. What is it? "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." See?

L-54 Oh, the greatest pleasure I know of, is to be to pray until I can realize that I'm in the Presence of God, and recognize it. I think that ought to be the thrill of the Church, is the Presence of the Holy Spirit; seeing the God that made the promise standing among us, feel His Presence and see His Word, and see It vindicated. It ought to give faith, to make cripples walk, blind see, deaf hear, dumb speak.

L-55   I stood in South Africa, where I had some two hundred thousand people at the Durban race track, and when they seen one time that happen like that, after explaining it to them, just in a little mild form; and they seen one thing take place, of that revealed, and twenty-five thousand people was instantly healed at once. They taken seven van loads, trucks as long as from here, six- and eighteen-wheelers like that, and piled them full of old crutches and things. Heathens, that didn't even know which was right and left hand.


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