<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 May the Lord add His blessings to that reading. This is kinda of an unusual text. It's a unusual statement. Because we were asked to contend, and yet the Bible said there should not be contentions among us.
But we notice that not only to contend, but to earnestly contend. Contention is all right if it's for the right thing. And He said, "To earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints."
Now, you hear so many people say today, "Oh, Divine healing's against my faith. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is against my faith." There's only one faith. And that faith doesn't come by joining church. That faith comes by hearing, and that of the Word of God.
So if we are bid to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints, that faith should not come out of a creed book; but it should come out of God's Bible. For faith cannot rest upon the shifting sands of man's theology. But it can only rest upon the eternal Rock of God's unchangeable Word. That's the only place that faith can sufficiently rest.

L-11 No matter how much something else, how real it looks, how godly it looks, it must come from the Word of the living God. 'Cause faith only comes by hearing and hearing of the Word.
So there's many things that looks appealing to the eye. I have often thought of seeing great shrines of the--of different religions and how beautiful they could be. I think of the--the temple of Diana in the Bible, that it's claimed that it was more beautiful than the temple of Solomon, made out of marble and inlaid with gold of the goddess Diana of Ephesus.
But the looks doesn't count. It's what God's Word says. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man." So then, faith could not rest upon looks. Then faith can only find its place in the Word. And we were asked to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

L-12 And the word saints comes from the word, "sanctified one." And "sanctify" is a compound word which means "cleansed and set apart." And the vessels that was put on the altar cleansed the vessels; the altar sanctified the vessels, and they were set apart for the service of the temple.
And a vessel of God, which we are, is sanctified through the Blood of the Lord Jesus and set apart for the service of God.
A few weeks ago down in Mexico, a few months ago, rather, in Mexico city, I was having a revival. And, oh, how those poor people stood from nine o'clock at morning until nine at night.
Before I got there, each day they'd stand like sheep holding each other up in the direct rays of that southern sun, so hungry.
That's the reason today that this great fabulous nation of ours, America, doesn't receive the things that we should receive, is because we're not hungry enough. When we really get down to business, then God will go to acting.

L-13 And they were standing against each other, mothers with their little, sick babies and holding up their loved ones, standing in the sun, just in order to hold a place all day long. And when I had to be led over a great, high wall to come down to get into the arena type place where the meetings were being held, taken me up by rope ladder and let me down. And as I looked...
And after the night--one night there, an old Mexican man came up. And he had no shoes on, and his beard was gray, and hardly any clothes to cover himself. He was blind. And as he came towards me, he pulled out a little set of beads and begin to repeat a prayer. I had him to put them up. I said, "That's not necessary, brother." I look at the old man, and his feet wrinkled and the dust, and I thought maybe the man never had a good meal in all of his life. And they work hard just for meager little living.


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