<TITLE>09. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 Am I too loud for you? The--there's just a rebounding. I--I--I hope not. But notice. That night in the prayer line, when the Lord Jesus came on the scene, there set the Rajahs on their pillows and so forth, and it was over two hours getting into the line up to where we could get to the speaker's stand. And when the Lord Jesus came up and told a man that was totally blind for twenty years, seeing the vision over him, and knowed he was going to be healed, I challenged every one of them to come heal the man. Of course they set still. But our Lord Jesus gave the man his sight. Thousands times thousands and thousands came to Christ at one time. There it is.
It isn't whether our creeds work; they'll work all right in moral life. But to reproduce the Lord Jesus and His promise is to know Him, not your creed.
Now, quickly to our text. And I'll try to be just as quick an I possibly can and get the line started, 'cause it's midweek, and you people work.
Now, listen, close. The text says tonight.
Beloved,... I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
This is Saint Jude now, writing to the church thirty-three years after Pentecost, and exhorting you that you should earnestly contend for the faith (not 'a' faith, 'the' faith.) that was once delivered unto the saints.

L-20 Now, each one of us in our churches, we're fine, and--and I want you to be with your church, and support your church, and help it for the glory of God. But now, let's go back and find out now, there's got be something... if we... He said, "Earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints." Then there's surely some way of knowing what the faith was.

L-21 Now, let's go back in the Bible. I think that would be logical and proof enough to all of us, if we go back and see what the saints, what--what kind of faith they had. And if we were exhorted to earnestly contend for this faith, if we find out what kind of faith they had, then we ought to contend for that faith, in other words, say, "This is right." Now, we find out what it was.
Before they were ever called saints in the Bible, they were in the New Testament. John the Baptist come between the law and Christ which was the gap, or the keystone that locked the two dispensations together.
Now, we'd have to begin with Christ, if we're going to talk about Christian faith, because He is the--the beginning of Christian faith. John came, John the Baptist preached in the wilderness of Judaea, and he never done one miracle, never done any signs. But he just condemned the churches, and condemned the priests, and the rabbis, and so forth, and told them there was coming One.
And at the baptismal service when he was baptizing, he saw Jesus coming with a Light following Him. And He said, "Behold, the Lamb of God that take away the sin of the world." And Jesus was baptized; the Holy Spirit came from out of heaven, and a Voice from It, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell." The original translation says, "In Whom I am pleased to dwell in." Which God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was God in flesh.
Now, now, let's notice what kind of a life that He did. And I want to ask you something, you people as we're talking. What He was then, He should be... If that's the faith that He introduced to the world, that ought to be the faith that we should contend for tonight. Is that right? That's right. It should be. All right.


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