<TITLE>02. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 What good would it do me to come over here and tell you something that wasn't so? It's dangerous flying the ocean. It's hard for me to leave my children crying. I've got a little ten- weeks-old baby. And when mother was holding him up, and he tried to hold his little hand for me, looked like... My little girl holding onto my leg, saying, "Daddy, don't go," it's not easy. But there's little girls in Germany who's to be prayed for. I must go tell them and pray for them.
Now, I didn't come for money. I didn't come for popularity. I didn't come to build new churches. Neither did I come to tear down the ones that is built. I come for one purpose: the love in my heart of Jesus Christ for you people. And I--I mean that.

L-8 Because if I would die an--an impersonator, a hypocrite, I would be lost. No matter what I done. I'd be lost. I want to go to heaven. I got a father up there. And I got loved ones up there. And Jesus is there. And I want to see them. So I come with all my heart, to try to tell you what the Lord Jesus has done for you. You accept it.
Now, to our text: "Earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints."
Now, every one of us wants to believe that our church does that. The Methodists, they say they are contending for it. The Baptists, they say they contend for it. The Catholic, they say they contend for it. The Lutheran, they say they contend for it. The Pentecostal, they say they contend for it. The Nazarene, they say they contend for it. But they different so much one from another. Now, there's only... I believe that they do. And I love them all. I have nothing against any.
But we want to find out, really, what is the faith. Well, if the Nazarenes different from the Pentecost. And the Pentecost different from the Methodists. The Lutheran different from the Catholic. How we going to know? There's only one way, what the Bible says. That must be the truth.

L-9 Now, it was to contend for "the" faith, "the," not "a." "The" one faith. There is only really one faith, one Lord, one God, one baptism, one faith.
Now, so we have to go back to find out what this faith is. Now, I ask you, as my dear beloved brother and sister, that you will take this under consideration. Because, it must come from the Bible. Now, it may be a little different from what you've been taught.
When Jesus came, the church was looking for Him to come. But He come so much different, until they failed to recognize Him. Could it be so again today that the same thing has happened? Let's see.
Now, if it is the faith that was delivered to the saints, it'll have to come from the New Testament, because they were only called "saints" in the New Testament. So let's go back.

L-10 Now, how many in here has ever read the New Testament? Would you raise your hand? Wonderful. Now, you can--you can follow me and see if I misquote the Scriptures. It is so hard through an interpreter. I will just quote it.
Now, in the beginning, the first one of the New Testament was John the Baptist. John stood between law and grace. He never come under the Christian dispensation, neither was he under the law. He was the forerunner of Jesus Christ, "A voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make a way, a path for the Lord!'" That is right, isn't it? Amen.
Then, the first one to introduce the faith for the Christian church was none other than Jesus Himself. He was the introduction of the faith that was to be handed to the Christian church. Do you believe that?


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