<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Now, if we wanted to look at Him and to know... I believe we're told by Jude in the 3rd verse (There's only one chapter.), that we should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. As far as I know, that's the only place in the Bible that we're--we are asked to contend. But that was to contend for--not a faith, but the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
If I'd ask a Methodist here, they'd say, "That's what we're contending for." I'd ask a Baptist, they would say, "That what we're contending for." If I'd ask a Pentecostal, "That's what we're contended for." And if I'd ask the Nazarene, "That's what we're contending for." If I'd ask the Catholic, they'd say, "That's what we're contending for."
Well, I believe that's true, to your understanding. But there's only one way to be positive, and that's to go back in the Bible and see what kind of a faith they had, and then earnestly contend for that. That is, laying the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostal, and all to one side, going right back into God's Word and seeing what It says about it.

L-21 Now, my subject, my thought, rather, tonight, and the campaign thought is this, that Jesus Christ is not dead. Blessed be His Name, He is alive forevermore, and the only Mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus. And He lives today; He's alive. And He's omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, He's the infinite, immortal, Son of the living God and He never changes and never will.
Notice, if that cannot be proved, then it's just common theology; it's just common everyday talking. But if it is proved, then it's right, and it's worth living and dying for, if it is the truth.

L-22 Let us turn back in the pages of time, and let's take the precious Book tonight, and you just place it in your mind. If you want to follow me, all right, if you do not, then read it when you go home or tomorrow in the quietness of your room. Let's go to the blessed Book of Saint John and take the 1st chapter.
We find out, that after the birth of Jesus and after He was baptized by the Holy Spirit... And He received the Spirit without measure. We receive the Spirit by measure. But He received It without measure. The Fulness of the Godhead bodily dwelt in Christ. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. We are just gifts of God to His Church.
Therefore, the Spirit that was in Jesus, was like all the water in the world. And the gifts of the Spirit from Jesus, is like a spoonful of that same water. But the chemicals that's in the entire ocean, is in a spoonful of water; it's the same chemicals, just not as much of it. We have it by measure; He had it without measure.

L-23 Now, notice, when He started His earthly ministry, the first thing taken place, He begin to preach the Gospel to the poor. And the poor received Him. And immediately He begin praying for the sick. Great signs and wonders begin to happening. It stirred the curiosity of the people.
Now, we'll take one of His first miracles. The strange thing was, when Simon Peter came to Him, now He had never seen him in his life, but He knew who he was. And He called him by name and told him who his daddy was. "Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas. But from hereafter you shall be called Peter." Strange, it startled the fisherman.


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