<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 And all of a sudden, right out of the blue sky, as we say it, there came a fellow out of the wilderness, a burly looking fellow, a preaching repentance and telling the people that the axe was laid to the root of the tree. And every tree that didn't bring forth good fruit was hewed down and cast into the fire.
And he said, "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but there cometh One after me." If the people would have been aware of the prophecy of God, they'd have knowed that John was to prepare the way of the Lord, according to the prophecy.
He said, "I am not he, but there's coming one after me, Whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire. And His fan is in His hand. And He will thoroughly purge His floors and--and gather the wheat into the garner and burn the chaff with unquenchable fire."

L-23 And then come Jesus of Galilee to Jordan to be baptized of him: just an ordinary looking young Fellow of about thirty years old walked out into the water. All these years since the time of a child, where the Angel sang and the Magis followed the star, and nothing had been said very much about Him. But when He was really to be the Son of God, the anointed Messiah, God gave a sign out of heaven.
John said, "I didn't know Him." But the time had come for Who John had been told by, to vindicate Who the person was... For he said, "He that sent me to baptize as water said, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining, He's the One that will baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire.'" The time came when that had to come to pass.
The time came for Jesus to go into His ministry, for miracles and signs and wonders to be done. It--time came for the Pharisees to reject Him, the Church to turn Him down. The time came for the crucifixion. The time came for the revelation. The time came for the resurrection. And all these things has time limits.

L-24 The time came for the woman who had the blood issue had waited all these years to be healed. She had went to the doctors for many years, but her issue kept coming forth. The doctors give her medicine, and nothing would stop it. But the time came when she had said within her heart, "I hear this One, and I believe Him to be the Messiah. If I can only touch His garment, I'll be made ever whit whole."
And if you believe that in your heart, God's obligated then to present that before you, if you believe it.
Now, what if Jesus would have come and she'd looked down to the river that morning, and seen Him get out of the boat, tired, weary bunch of men, and she'd have said, "Well, I hear them laughing at Him. Maybe I'd better not go down." Then it'd never happened. But God presented Him. And when God presented Him, she went, and touched, and believed because her time was that time.

L-25 The time came that, when He had told Nathanael back there, "If I told you where you was at, or what your name was, or so forth and you believed that, you shall... There'll be a time when the--the dead that's in the grave shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and shall come forth." And the time came for that to happen.
And He walked to the grave of Lazarus and there stood the apostles, standing around. And Jesus called a man after being dead four days, back to life again, because He had said so.
Now, friend. The time came for the carrying away of the--the temple. The time came for the re--erecting of the abomination that maketh desolation that's spoken by Daniel. And now, it's went to the siege. The time has come, and passing, where the prophet said, "There'll be a day that it won't be neither dark nor light. It'll be a day... But in the evening time it'll be light."


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