<TITLE>12. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 Now, quickly, I got about ten minutes before we start praying for the sick, if God willing. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Now, I want to ask you something. There's only one way to find out Who He is, what He looks like, what He does, and all about Him. The only way we could justly do it, is not go back over to my church, the Baptist church, and take an example, not go to your church, the Presbyterian; or yours, the Catholic; or yours, the Pentecostal; or the Church of God; or Assemblies of God. That's not it; but go back to God's Word and find out what He was.

L-37 Let's see. We know the Christmas story; that's fresh to us; we've had it last week or two. Now, let's take Him when He--when He entered His ministry. As soon as He entered His ministry, John the Baptist, which was the one who introduced Him, being the greatest prophet of all the ages, was John the Baptist... And Jesus said so, vindicated him as the greatest. Greater than Elijah, greater than any the rest of them, was John, because He introduced the Messiah. The rest of them prophesied of Him coming, but he said, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. He had the privilege of introducing to the world the Messiah God.
And John knew Him because there was a sign following Him, the supernatural. And anywhere in God's Word where Jesus appears, or the Holy Spirit appears, supernatural's there. So we can't get our church to dead theological creeds; it's got to be the Spirit of the living God, moving, proving Himself. We'll get on that Sunday or sometime, the Lord willing.

L-38 But notice. We'll take His life. Now, to you that wants to read the Bible, to make it... Let's take the Bible then. Let's begin tonight. I'll quote it. You follow me as you read, if you wish to, in Saint John the 1st chapter. We read in John, so we'll just take Saint John the 1st chapter, take Matthew, Luke, Mark or any of the rest of them, brings it out. Let's take Saint John.
As soon as He was tempted of the devil forty days, and the devil left Him for a little season, Jesus began His ministry.

L-39 Now, let's watch what kind of a ministry. I want to ask you: if we can find the type of ministry... Now, the Bible teaches us that His body is in glory, setting at the right hand of God on the throne of God. But It teaches also, that the Holy Spirit, which is God's Spirit, is here on the earth, continuing His work, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "A little while and the world (That's a--the wor--cosmos, the world order.) won't see Me any more, yet ye shall see Me." He promised to be with us, not in that age only, but to the end of the world: the same yesterday. And, "The things that I do, shall you also." That right? "More than this shall you do." The King James gives "greater" but who--the right translation's "more." Look at it and find out. "More..." You couldn't do greater: He stopped nature; raised the dead; and everything there was to be done. "More than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father. Yet a little while and the world sees Me no more; yet you shall see Me. Ye shall see Me." How long? Every generation to the end of the world. Oh, I love that; that's God's Word. That's where the Holy Spirit feeds, right there. Right on the... "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."


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