<TITLE>04. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 The reading of the Word over in St. John the 1st chapter, you who have Bibles and would like to read with me or mark it down for a text. And we read the text from the Word, and then let's pray, and that the Holy Spirit will take the context out of the Word to give to us. We can read It; we who are able to read can read It; but only God can bring the context out. The text can be read, 'cause It is His Word; but then the--the context has to be given by God. Now, in St. John, 1st chapter, and let's begin at the 28th verse and read down to the 32nd, inclusive.
These things were done... beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing
... next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.
And this is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And I knew him not: but he... but that he should be... manifested to Israel, therefore I am come baptizing with water.
... John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
I want to read that again, that last verse, 32nd verse.
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

L-20 Now, may the Lord add His blessings to the Word. I want you to try to--to catch every word if we can. Can you hear me all right, way back? All right, can you hear me back there? If you can, you raise up your hand. That's good.

L-21 Now, I want to speak to you this morning on--on parable, on some way that even the--the most unchurch person in here would be able to understand. Now, we come to church to better ourself. We come to make ourselves better people, better Christian, better citizen, better fathers, better mother, better neighbor. We come because Christ has told us if we would come, ask anything in His Name, where we are assembled together, as many as two or three, He would be with us and would grant it to us. So what could be any more, be any better to us today than to know that we have--at the church for to embetter ourself to broaden our understanding. How many would say, "That's what I'm here for"? Let's see. "I--I want a better understanding." And we can't--we can't have a better understanding unless it...
And if we're going to have a understanding of God, it must come out of God's Word, for the Word is what God gave us to feed our hungry souls. And the Holy Spirit was sent to take the Word of God and to feed us by the Word. You see it? See, we... The Holy Spirit is sent from God to take the Word of God and to give It to us as we have need. Now, I'm so glad that God made a provision like that (Aren't you?), that He would feed us.
We are the sheep of His pasture. We're going to speak on that in a little bit: the sheep. And we're... The threefold being of God, and when He can have the complete control of us, He can lead us and guide us.

L-23 Now, it so pleased God, that when He sent Jesus to the earth, that it pleased Him to represent Him as an animal, and that animal was the lamb. Way back in the beginning in the garden of Eden, in the foreshadows of the coming of Jesus, God sacrificed a--a lamb to be a substitutionary offering in the foreshadows of the coming of Christ. Now, I've often wonder why that God would foreshadow Christ as a animal, as a beast. But we come to find out that the Lamb, the reason He chose a lamb, a lamb is the meekest and most gentlest of all the creatures there is on earth. There's nothing any more meeker and gentler than a little lamb, so innocent, not self-sustaining. It--it's not arrogant. It's a gentle, meek little creature. And when God was going to represent Christ to the world, He represented Him in a lamb.


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