<TITLE>06. Par 9-10</TITLE>L-9 Opening to the Gospel of Saint Jude in the Bible, which is only one Book, one chapter, and in the 3rd verse of this chapter I wish to read for just a little text to get a context from it for what I'd like to speak on for the next few moments. Then we will pray for the sick.
Beloved,... I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exalt you that you should earnestly contend for the faith... once delivered unto the saints.
May the Lord add His blessings to His Word. This was wrote some thirty-three years after the--the day of Pentecost, after the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the early saints.
Jude, calls hisself a servant and brother to Jesus Christ. And He wrote this Book to the Church and told them that they should earnestly contend, the only place in the sacred Writings that's ever told us to contend, because we're not supposed to have contentions among us, but to earnestly contend for a purpose of faith that was once delivered unto the saints. And that's... We're not to contend, and we're not trying to contend. But we're wanting to face this.
If I should ask tonight how many Methodists was in the crowd? How many Baptist was in the crowd, how many Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, Catholic? There'd be hands go up, in even this little group of people here tonight. There would be many hands go up. And each one of us in our different denominations would want to say, "Our church was contending for that faith that was once delivered to the saints." I'd want to say it in the--about the Baptist church. Someone else would want to say it about the Methodist church, someone else about the Catholic church. And some other one about... It would be that way to the little groups of people.
Now, I want to believe that we're all contending for that faith. I believe that everyone is contending for the best of their knowledge to the faith. But in this, being so many different denominations, there's got to be something right and something wrong. Now, that's the way I try to be, my brother, sister, that there's...

L-10 You never seen a man drunk and sober at the same time. You never seen a black white bird. There's no such a thing. And there's no right and wrong mixed together. It's either right or it's wrong.
And that's the way that I believe God. If I didn't believe that He was the same God that lived in the days of Moses, He wasn't the same God that fulfill every promise that He made, then I couldn't have faith to accept Him.
Now, there's only... That's only sensible and reasonable to think that... What good would it do us tonight... You're not here just to be seen. You wouldn't come out in this rain and gather in a little place like this just to be seen. You're here for one purpose; that's to find something good. And I pray that God will give each one of you something real good that you'll never forget. And each one of you Christians, may He raise your joy to Him to cause you to serve Him better than you've ever served Him in all your life.
Now, what good would it do to serve a God that served Moses, a God that Moses served, and if He wasn't the same God today? What good would it do to serve a historical God, if He's no--if He's powerless and gone and dead today? I want to ask you that question.
You wouldn't want to do it; neither would I. If I can't serve a God that's a living and right here present to help me when I have need, then what's the use of serving God? If He was a God, but He isn't a God now, or if He was a God of power, He's lost His power now, there's something weakening about that God. Isn't that right?


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