<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Now, let's go back to the beginning. Now, when they were first called saints, was in the New Testament. We're speaking in the New Testament, I believe, Luke 16:16 said, that, "The law and prophets were until John: and since then the Kingdom of God's been preached."
Now, we will have to find out John was just the arch, or the breach between law and grace, when he came to breach the way. And he done no miracles at all; he was a great preacher of--of repentance. Did you know them spirits still return? You believe that? Sure, certainly they do. Don't you know of a minister today in the land that's got a great message of repentance above anybody I ever heard of since Charles Finney; that's Billy Graham. Your boy's in this country in here, certainly. I never heard a man that had such a message on repentance as Billy Graham has. There's that spirit. And it forerun the coming of the Lord Jesus. That's right.

L-27 And Jesus come; He wasn't much of a preacher, as we would call preacher, 'cause said He never lifted His voice in the streets and so forth. Is John the one, with big, raw, go get it and tear it down and break it out, "It's not lawful for you to have her." But Jesus was a quiet sort of Person. But God was with Him, and He was performing miracles and doing things, and signs and wonders, coming right behind John's ministry, backing it up.

L-28 Now, notice then, when John was the greatest of all the prophets, Jesus said. Because all the prophets looked forward to the coming of the Lord Jesus, though they done many miracles, John did no miracles at all, but he was the one who introduced Jesus to the world. That made him the greatest. All of them looked forward to His coming; all of them looked forward to this great time, and John had the privilege of saying, "Behold, the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world." That was him.

L-29 And then John's ministry ceased right there, and Jesus started off. He went into the wilderness, was tempted forty days of the devil, on a fast. Come back out, and immediately... Let's watch Him now, 'cause He was the One who introduced the Christian faith. Are you all ready to agree with that, that Jesus introduced it. If we can see what He gave to the Church, then that surely is the faith that Jude was talking about, that was once delivered to the saints, or the sanctified ones. All right.
Notice Him now, the first thing He begin, when He come out of the wilderness, begin to preach, and to pray, and heal the sick. That's right. He begin with a great ministry of healing, and not just healing the sick. And many people begin to come to Him. And He would pray and lay hands on them, and they'd get well. Great things was accomplished in His ministry.


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