<TITLE>04. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 I want to ask you something. If we were going to look for Jesus of Nazareth tonight, I want to ask this audience, "Do you believe that the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ rose from the dead? Do you believe that? Well then, if He rose from the dead, He's among men tonight, as He promised He'd be. He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet, you shall see Me..." Who is He talk--well, who's you? "Ye," is a believer, the church. How? Just that group of people? No. "You shall see Me for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Is that right? All Scriptures dovetail together. That's Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-11 Let's watch the type of person He was. Let's look at His character; watch His ministry. And as He worked then, He works now. As He was then, He is now, and will be forever. And just what He did in them days, He'll do it today, He'll be just the same forever. He's the same Jesus, yesterday, today, and forever, the same type of character. A man that professes to be a Christian, must have a Christ-like nature. If it isn't, there's another nature there which it isn't Christ-like.
If you have the nature of a--a killer... If I told you I have the spirit of John Dillinger, some famous outlaw, you'd expect me to have guns, and you'd be dangerous to be setting around here where I was at, 'cause I'd be a murderer.
If I told you I had the--the spirit of some famous mechanic, you'd expect me to know what was wrong with your car if I looked at it. If I told you the Spirit of Christ was in me, I must act like Jesus. You must act like Jesus. Your character and conduct must be molded like that. And the Holy Spirit molds that conduct when He comes into you, when you're really borned again of the Spirit of God.
And what we need tonight, is that type of church, a church when Jesus... Whatever the Father showed Him, He believed it; it had to be. What the Father's Word was, He used the Father's Word to defeat Satan, without even using His power.

L-12 I want you to notice how simple this is. When Jesus co--was here on earth, He was Emmanuel. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. God was manifested in the flesh in Jesus Christ, and He was the Emmanuel. And when He walked along here on earth, He had powers. What the Father was, He'd manifested Hisself in the Son. But when He met Satan, He never used any of His power; He used the Father's Word. Satan said, "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones... I want to see you perform a miracle. Command these stones to be made bread." Jesus never used His power to defeat Satan. He said, "It is written." the Father's Word. 
Psalms... Also in Deuteronomy, "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word proceedeth out of the mouth of God." See how reverent He was to the Word? "It is written..."

L-13 Satan taken Him up on the temple and whitewashed the Scriptures for Him. He said, "And it is written." Again, He taken Him up on the mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms, and Jesus said, "It is written," and He defeated this devil by the Word of God, never used any power at all, bringing every Divine blessing down in the--to the reach of the humblest and weakest of Christian, as long as you'll believe that that's the Word of God, and say, "It's written." It'll defeat Satan, anywhere, any time, on any conditions: the Word of God. It certainly will. Dare to put it to prom--put to His promise.


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