<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Continually on Satan battled at Him, and even used the Scriptures, and Jesus come back, "And it's also written."
And Jesus defeated Satan without using any Divine gift that He had, showing that the weakest of Christians can defeat Satan on the Word of God. And that's the reason that I try to get before the person--nothing in the individual, the preacher, it's in Christ, and Christ is in His Word. Do you believe that?
Listen to this. "In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us," died and rose again, and is in us today, the same Word that was in the beginning.
This Bible is the Letter of God. And every promise in It belongs to you, if you can believe It and accept It in the right kind of an attitude. It's in you, the hope of glory, Christ.

L-31 Notice. Now how do we come into Christ? First, we receive Him by faith, believing. Secondly, "by one Spirit, then, we are all baptized into one Body," I Corinthians 12; by one membership? by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body. That is believers, that's already believed on the Lord Jesus Christ are baptized into the Body of Christ by one Holy Spirit. That's a little against my Baptist teachings, but that's the Bible.
I'm a Baptist as long as it stays in the Bible; after that I'm the Bible. We're taught that you receive the Holy Ghost when you believe, but Paul said (Acts 19), to a bunch of Baptists... Yes, sir. They was with Apollos, and Apollos was one of John's converts. And when Paul passed through the upper coast of Ephesus, find certain disciples, he said to them, "Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" That's right. Since you believed?

L-32 They said... They were believers, having great joy, shoutings, and praising the Lord. Said, "Why, we know not whether there be any Holy Ghost."
Said, "Then unto how was ye baptized?"
Said, "Unto John." They were Baptists.
Said, "John baptized unto repentance, seeing that you should believe on them that comes, on the Lord Jesus." And when they heard this, they were baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. Paul laid his hands upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. That's many years after Pentecost. See? The blessing was still going on.
It's still going on today and will till Jesus comes, wherever the congregation gathers together. Whether they're Methodist, Baptists, Presbyterian, whatever they are, when they let Jesus in, finds a--a flock in the church, like sparks off of an anvil beaten on a hot piece of iron (That's right.) when--when they'll let Christ come in. Always. All these signs. When God appears, watch what takes place.

L-33 Moses had been a total failure. And there may be men here this afternoon, maybe ministers, that's been total failures. Maybe you been as a housewife, maybe you been as a student at--at school, maybe you been as a child to your parents. Whatever you have been let that be "has been" and start from today. No matter what it is. Maybe you been a failure as a Christian, maybe you failed to go on with God. If it has been, take note to what I'm going to say just in a few moments about this.
Moses failed down in Egypt, when he was born to be a deliverer, to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. Why? Because he did it in himself. He took it upon himself to do it. And any time you take things upon yourself and leave God out, then you're going to be a failure like Moses was.


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