<TITLE>09. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Notice. He believed the message just as the Bible spoke it. It's too bad we got away from it. That's right. But it... John Wesley believed the Bible. I stood by the place where the shrine, where he turned the foxhound, the one from the Anglican church turned their foxes loose among him and things like that. He pointed his finger in his face and said, "The sun will not set on your head three times till you'll be calling for me to pray for you." And he died that evening with cramps, calling for John.
When John riding his horse, and he'd fell off of it, horse fell and broke its leg. And he got out, took his anointing oil from his pocket, and anointed the horse with oil, got on it and rode away. Why, you Methodist surely ought to believe in Divine healing, the power of God.
Sure, it's too bad we get away from it. You Baptists too, Presbyterians, Pilgrim Holiness, and what all we have, Pentecostals and all... Notice. God don't respect denominations; God respects the individual. That's right.

L-29 Notice. Now he said to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Well, if it takes New Testament, we'll have to start back from the beginning of the New Testament. The first one, the mediator between the Old and New was John the Baptist. And he was a short lived life which only lasted just as the voice of one crying in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord, six months of preaching.
And when Jesus came he was considered the--John was, the greatest of all the prophets, because the rest of them spoke of Jesus, but John said, "Behold, the Lamb of God that take away the sin of the world." He introduced to the world the Messiah that had been prophesied since Eden. He did no miracles. But he was the forerunner of the Lord Jesus.

L-30 When Jesus came in on the scene and begin to--to speak to the people... I love that part, God always giving vindications. Oh, now just be quiet a minute. Listen. God always vindicates the truth. No matter what man--man... That's the reason today we can't have faith. See, faith is not based upon the shifting sands of man's theology. Faith can only be based upon the--the solid Rock of God's eternal Word. That's the only place that faith can rest. It's the only resting place that faith has, because the Bible said so. Not what the preacher says, not what papa said, but what God said. That's where faith is solid. To the believer, if God said it, that settles it. See, there's your resting place.
And with such a shifting condition as we're in today, how can faith rest itself? You got to come back to the Bible, back to the truth. And when Jesus, a carpenter's Son, physically speaking, when He come to the earth here that's all He was known of, and the day that when John baptized Him, God a vindicated Him. God spoke from the heavens. John saw Him coming in the form a dove, and said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell." The right translation there is, "In whom I am pleased to dwell in." Jesus immediately anointed with God, He was just a man till that time, but now He becomes the God-man.
Someone telling me here not long ago, as I many times referred to it in this shiftless day, that He was just a prophet, He was a good man. He was more than that. He was the anointed God. The Bible said, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." God in Christ. Amen.

L-31 Notice it. How beautiful. The Father, speaking from the heavens, when He was obedient to baptism, said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." No wonder Jesus could say, "All the power in heavens and earth is given unto My hands."
Here He goes. Now, let's watch His life. I think, is a beautiful, the first thing that we see Him doing, beginning to pray for the sick. Let's take Him in one of His first meetings in Luke the 1st chapter. Now, let's type back and see what Jesus was that day.


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