7177 Tokens 32672 Characters [ { "title": "A Court Trial Preached on Sunday, the 12th of April 1964 at the National Guard Armory in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A. (1 hour and 34 minutes) You can find this sermon at ChurchAges.net", "level": 1, "token_count": 3544, "start_line": "line0003", "has_children": "Y", "children": [ { "title": "1 ...and I hope to be back someday, if Jesus tarries.", "level": 2, "token_count": 188, "start_line": "line0009", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0012" }, { "title": "2 Tommy Osborn---he was up there that night when that maniac run to the platform in Portland, Oregon, to kill me.", "level": 2, "token_count": 262, "start_line": "line0013", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0017" }, { "title": "3 And now you can imagine a man, in that kind of rage, would think about a man weighing about 128 pounds---to a nearly three hundred pounds of like a mountain standing before you---what he thought.", "level": 2, "token_count": 298, "start_line": "line0018", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0023" }, { "title": "4 Tommy Osborn saw that, and he went home and nailed hisself in a room for three days.", "level": 2, "token_count": 194, "start_line": "line0024", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0026" }, { "title": "5 And the other day I stood and looked at his building, and, oh, my!---a million and a half dollars or something in it.", "level": 2, "token_count": 214, "start_line": "line0027", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0029" }, { "title": "6 looked down the road, and I went ... said, \"The future home of so-and-so ... future home.", "level": 2, "token_count": 163, "start_line": "line0030", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0032" }, { "title": "7 Every crowd, now, they have three classes of people: believers, make-believers, unbelievers.", "level": 2, "token_count": 186, "start_line": "line0033", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0036" }, { "title": "8 Look at the Shunammite woman, the same way when she got the little boy from the blessing of Elisha.", "level": 2, "token_count": 183, "start_line": "line0037", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0039" }, { "title": "9 Look at those drunken Roman soldiers on that day, just before the crucifixion took place---sending Him out there and smacking Him on the face, and the cheeks, and things like...", "level": 2, "token_count": 174, "start_line": "line0040", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0043" }, { "title": "10 So, may the Lord bless you now.", "level": 2, "token_count": 198, "start_line": "line0044", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0047" }, { "title": "11 Let us stand now in respect of His Word, while we turn to Mark, the 16th chapter.", "level": 2, "token_count": 196, "start_line": "line0048", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0062" }, { "title": "12 Our gracious heavenly Father, we ask You now to take Your Word, and as we bring up this afternoon this trial of thy Word, we pray that we'll sense the presence of the resurrected Jesus.", "level": 2, "token_count": 213, "start_line": "line0063", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0067" }, { "title": "13 Now, I trust that the appearing of His vindicated resurrection this week... What little that we have seen, you could at this time and this stage, being your first time, be a little skeptic of it---because the only thing you see is just the minor part.", "level": 2, "token_count": 159, "start_line": "line0068", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0070" }, { "title": "14 Now this afternoon I thought it would be no more than right, and after His appearing before us and go through the building and discern the thoughts of the heart... Now I've only used three or four little scriptures with you, which God knows that all scriptures join together.", "level": 2, "token_count": 161, "start_line": "line0071", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0074" }, { "title": "15 ... though He did so many things, yet the people could not believe---because Isaiah says: they got hearts, they can't understand; eyes, they can't see; ears, they can't hear.", "level": 2, "token_count": 136, "start_line": "line0075", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0079" }, { "title": "16 Today I'm going to call what we'd call---for a few minutes now before we pray for the sick, and we're going to try to be out of here within the next forty minutes, if possible---but I want to have just a little trial first.", "level": 2, "token_count": 106, "start_line": "line0080", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0082" }, { "title": "17 Now, the prosecuting attorney always represents the state, if I understand the courts right.", "level": 2, "token_count": 78, "start_line": "line0083", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0086" }, { "title": "18 Now, we have the ... all the characters called in now, and we're in court so we're going to call the court to order.", "level": 2, "token_count": 291, "start_line": "line0087", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0091" }, { "title": "19 Next witness stands up is Mr. Skeptic.", "level": 2, "token_count": 182, "start_line": "line0092", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0094" }, { "title": "20 And the prosecuting attorney, Satan, calls his next witness.", "level": 2, "token_count": 273, "start_line": "line0095", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0096" }, { "title": "21 Now the prosecuting attorney has to kind of show the case off.", "level": 2, "token_count": 143, "start_line": "line0097", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0099" }, { "title": "22 Therefore he's indicting God---trying to get a case against Him---to say that God has put something in His Word for His believing children, and does not stand behind what He promised.", "level": 2, "token_count": 186, "start_line": "line0100", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0103" }, { "title": "23 Yet, again, the prosecuting attorney speaks (Satan), and said, \"God promises to be alive after He has been crucified.", "level": 2, "token_count": 201, "start_line": "line0104", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0105" }, { "title": "24 He claims also in John 14:12 that 'He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also.'", "level": 2, "token_count": 241, "start_line": "line0106", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0109" }, { "title": "25 Now I think the prosecuting attorney thinks he has his case pretty well sealed up.", "level": 2, "token_count": 146, "start_line": "line0110", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0112" }, { "title": "26 Now we will call the defense witness, the Holy Spirit.", "level": 2, "token_count": 141, "start_line": "line0113", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0114" }, { "title": "27 Notice.", "level": 2, "token_count": 201, "start_line": "line0115", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0117" }, { "title": "28 Now, He quickens the Word.", "level": 2, "token_count": 203, "start_line": "line0118", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0120" }, { "title": "29 Like we claim to be saved.", "level": 2, "token_count": 176, "start_line": "line0121", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0123" }, { "title": "30 Again, calling the attention now, the prosecutor has misquoted the Word.", "level": 2, "token_count": 116, "start_line": "line0124", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0126" }, { "title": "31 Now, when a man plants a seed---if you're a farmer, or know anything about planting any seed---if you plant a seed today (some corn, say, you put it in your garden), and tomorrow morning you'd go out and dig it up and look at it, and say, \"Well, there's no difference in it\"; you plant it back, and the next day you go back, look at it, and say, \"There's no difference in it.\"---it will never come up.", "level": 2, "token_count": 164, "start_line": "line0127", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0127" }, { "title": "32 Or if I asked you for a oak tree and you gave me an acorn, potentially I have an oak tree.", "level": 2, "token_count": 163, "start_line": "line0128", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0132" }, { "title": "33 Someone said, \"What do you think about the resurrection?\"", "level": 2, "token_count": 199, "start_line": "line0133", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0135" }, { "title": "34 Now the defense witness wants to call a few witnesses to the platform.", "level": 2, "token_count": 108, "start_line": "line0136", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0138" }, { "title": "35 And Mr. Unbeliever, Mr. Skeptic---and all them fellows sitting there---they scoffed at me, and laughed at me, for believing for such a miracle as that, when scientifically proved there is no water up there.", "level": 2, "token_count": 113, "start_line": "line0139", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0141" }, { "title": "36 Where's the rain at? You know, after all, prophet Noah---as you supposed to be one---you said that...'", "level": 2, "token_count": 133, "start_line": "line0142", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0151" }, { "title": "37 So, we find out, he said then, \"Years passed, till 119 years, and just lacking about seven days in being a hundred and twenty years.", "level": 2, "token_count": 153, "start_line": "line0152", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0156" }, { "title": "38 All right.", "level": 2, "token_count": 116, "start_line": "line0157", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0161" }, { "title": "39 \"Mr. Unbeliever, Mr. Skeptic, and Mr. Impatient tried their best to get a way ... they tried to tell me I was all wrong.", "level": 2, "token_count": 134, "start_line": "line0162", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0164" }, { "title": "40 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.", "level": 2, "token_count": 116, "start_line": "line0165", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0167" }, { "title": "41 All right, let's call another witness right quick---Isaiah, the prophet.", "level": 2, "token_count": 204, "start_line": "line0168", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0169" }, { "title": "42 Quickly let's call another witness.", "level": 2, "token_count": 194, "start_line": "line0170", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0173" }, { "title": "43 Moses, born to be a prophet, and here he was out in the wilderness, after forty years of getting rid of his education that he had got down from Egypt.", "level": 2, "token_count": 164, "start_line": "line0174", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0179" }, { "title": "44 \"So when I first come before holy father Pharaoh [the pastor, you know], and performed the miracle that God told me to do---a sign with my hand, or with a stick---you know Pastor Pharaoh down there, he didn't want to cooperate with me to begin with.", "level": 2, "token_count": 176, "start_line": "line0180", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0183" }, { "title": "45 Let's just grab another witness right quick before we leave.", "level": 2, "token_count": 197, "start_line": "line0184", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0185" }, { "title": "46 And the trouble of it is, how can a man, or a church, or a denomination that's ever tasted of the evidence that He is alive---and then deny when He's resurrected among us?", "level": 2, "token_count": 106, "start_line": "line0186", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0189" }, { "title": "47 If it be my part, they could have their goatskins; my name is written on the Lamb's book of life with every believer.", "level": 2, "token_count": 196, "start_line": "line0190", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0193" }, { "title": "48 I went in here not long ago---I believe it was in this state---Georgia Tech, or somewhere up there, was having a... I don't know.", "level": 2, "token_count": 182, "start_line": "line0194", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0196" }, { "title": "49 Now, Joshua said, \"I stilled the people by telling them, 'Keep quiet! God said so!' God said it---that's true!", "level": 2, "token_count": 161, "start_line": "line0197", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0198" }, { "title": "50 Now, it's getting late.", "level": 2, "token_count": 204, "start_line": "line0199", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0202" }, { "title": "51 I walked out with this little boy.", "level": 2, "token_count": 163, "start_line": "line0203", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0213" }, { "title": "52 \"Look up!\"", "level": 2, "token_count": 149, "start_line": "line0214", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0218" }, { "title": "53 [Gap in the audio] \"... Jesus.", "level": 2, "token_count": 198, "start_line": "line0219", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0222" }, { "title": "54 And there's where I knew... All the Pentecostal groups come together then.", "level": 2, "token_count": 134, "start_line": "line0223", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0230" }, { "title": "55 Now the Douglas studio with the big cameras setting there, and they said... The minister said, \"Take some glossies of that old man.", "level": 2, "token_count": 141, "start_line": "line0231", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0233" }, { "title": "56 While I was standing there I said, \"If there's a question about the gift of God for discernment, that's promised scripture.", "level": 2, "token_count": 201, "start_line": "line0234", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0239" }, { "title": "57 What is it?", "level": 2, "token_count": 196, "start_line": "line0240", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0244" }, { "title": "58 I know there's a lot of fanaticism in the world.", "level": 2, "token_count": 181, "start_line": "line0245", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0246" }, { "title": "59 Listen, we haven't got much time left---just for the prayer line.", "level": 2, "token_count": 151, "start_line": "line0247", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0249" }, { "title": "60 Look at Congressman Upshaw---in the wheelchair sixty-six years.", "level": 2, "token_count": 262, "start_line": "line0250", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0257" }, { "title": "61 Just a few minutes I said, \"I see an old man.", "level": 2, "token_count": 197, "start_line": "line0258", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0266" }, { "title": "62 So they wheeled him up, his wife did, and he said, \"Young man, how'd you ever know me?\"", "level": 2, "token_count": 199, "start_line": "line0267", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0273" }, { "title": "63 Jack Moore and I was down there in old Mexico that night where I had to be let down over the wall.", "level": 2, "token_count": 136, "start_line": "line0274", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0276" }, { "title": "64 And it was nearly ten o'clock at night, outside in that bullring, there in the ... and the rain just a-pouring down---some kind of a big, open field, like.", "level": 2, "token_count": 134, "start_line": "line0277", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0281" }, { "title": "65 So I said, well, I said to Brother Jack---he and I part our hair the same, you know---so I said, \"Brother Jack, she wouldn't know the difference between you and I.", "level": 2, "token_count": 201, "start_line": "line0282", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0288" }, { "title": "66 You are ... your mind is the jury, and your action is your judge.", "level": 2, "token_count": 141, "start_line": "line0289", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0292" }, { "title": "67 And as these people pass through here to be healed this afternoon, may each one of them make up their mind now.", "level": 2, "token_count": 159, "start_line": "line0293", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0295" }, { "title": "68 Are you a believer?", "level": 2, "token_count": 143, "start_line": "line0296", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0298" }, { "title": "69 I'm a stranger to you.", "level": 2, "token_count": 188, "start_line": "line0299", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0301" }, { "title": "70 There was a question here that I wanted to say here.", "level": 2, "token_count": 153, "start_line": "line0302", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0304" }, { "title": "71 Do you believe that, sir, sitting right there with that gray-looking suit on, sitting right back there looking at me?", "level": 2, "token_count": 182, "start_line": "line0305", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0307" }, { "title": "72 What is He?", "level": 2, "token_count": 188, "start_line": "line0308", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0311" }, { "title": "73 Do you believe that nervousness left you, sir, sitting out there at the end?", "level": 2, "token_count": 141, "start_line": "line0312", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0315" }, { "title": "74 But if you're a genuine seed of Abraham, and you want to take your stand; your verdict has been made, and you want to show the world that your verdict is made; that you believe that every word Jesus Christ said is the same; and the witnesses proved it to you this afternoon that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever---let those who's got prayer cards here walk right down here and stop right here.", "level": 2, "token_count": 163, "start_line": "line0316", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0318" }, { "title": "75 Now what did the Bible say?", "level": 2, "token_count": 201, "start_line": "line0319", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0321" }, { "title": "76 And when Saul of Tarsus was on his road down to Damascus a big light---pillar of fire---came, struck before him.", "level": 2, "token_count": 141, "start_line": "line0322", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0326" }, { "title": "77 So if I live or die, it's true anyhow.", "level": 2, "token_count": 134, "start_line": "line0327", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0329" }, { "title": "78 Now remember, these are your pastors, men of God who believe God.", "level": 2, "token_count": 182, "start_line": "line0330", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0332" }, { "title": "79 Now if you believe in divine healing, and have accepted Him now as your healer, we're standing here to lay hands on the sick.", "level": 2, "token_count": 153, "start_line": "line0333", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0335" }, { "title": "80 In the face of this, my mind reached a verdict about thirty-five years ago: He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.", "level": 2, "token_count": 149, "start_line": "line0336", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0339" }, { "title": "81 Now do you believe that (all in the line), believe your mind has reached that verdict?", "level": 2, "token_count": 153, "start_line": "line0340", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0342" }, { "title": "82 Roy, come here now and take this.", "level": 2, "token_count": 141, "start_line": "line0343", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0346" }, { "title": "83 May the men that would witness against You this afternoon---old man Unbelief, Skeptic, and Impatience---may he be cast from among us today.", "level": 2, "token_count": 141, "start_line": "line0347", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0348" }, { "title": "84 Now, next thing to be done is laying on of hands.", "level": 2, "token_count": 149, "start_line": "line0349", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0351" }, { "title": "85 Now Brother Borders is going to be singing quietly, and the organist and pianist, and so forth, \"Only believe, all things are possible, only believe.\"", "level": 2, "token_count": 181, "start_line": "line0352", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0363" }, { "title": "86 You know what we have done?", "level": 2, "token_count": 143, "start_line": "line0364", "has_children": "N", "children": [], "end_line": "line0378" } ], "end_line": "line0378" } ]