<TITLE>08. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 Now, let's get a view for a few moments, the life of our Lord. There's only one place in the Bible that we're asked to contend, as far as I know, and that's in the book of Jude, and that is earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints, now, not a faith, but the faith. And in a mixed up audience, we would say, the Methodist church, "Yes, we contend for that faith." Baptist, "Yes," Pentecostal, "Yes," Church of God, "Yes," Nazarene, "Yes," I believe that. But I believe, that the church is so matured now, until it's back into it's original form.
Like a grain of corn, when it come up in the field, it was little shoots, like little leaves...?... corn. By and by the corn went a little higher and become a tassel. The tassel looks back and says, "I have no use for you any more, leaf. I'm a tassel, I'm different." And that was perhaps, the first shoot we'd call it the first reformation, Luther, reformation, the Lutheran church.

L-29 But when the Wesleyans come along with their revival, they said, "We don't need you Lutherans any more." But did you know the very life that was in blade, made the tassel? And it can go no further until it uses the blade, 'cause it's got... It's a pollen, shakes off itself down into the blade, and there brings forth an ear. By and by, an ear of corn came out; it had grains on it. That was the Pentecostal, the restoration of the gifts coming back into the church.
Now, the ear can't look back and say, "Tassel, I have no need of you, or blade either one," because it taken the blade and the tassel to make the ear. What is it? It is God's church, further matured, and all that is in it.
We can see these things now, that the ear's ripe, the... ends at the time of the end. Oh, I know we got a lot of fungus on this ear, but it's still a ear just the same. That's right. We have a lot of ins-and-outs, and little isms, but God will shave that all off some of these days, and He will have a perfect ear of corn, one of these days. The same Holy Spirit that fell on Pentecost is bringing it all about.

L-30 Now, if we would examine this vine, now, as it's a beginning... Now, let's turn back. Usually we... In a meeting, it should be three night of teaching, before we even have a prayer line, because many times... And as these days especially, when people who are not, maybe, taught just in the deep things of this great move of God, in these past forty years, that swept around the world. They might not understand just right, and they come just a little critical or something, or maybe not wanting to be, but not understanding the Word. So you can imagine what a job it would be for the Holy Spirit to press that into hearts at one night.
Notice, let's just turn now... I read out of Saint John tonight. Let's turn back and find out what Jesus was yesterday. And if we can find out what Jesus was yesterday, then we ought to have a good conception of what He is today. And if we could find out how He manifested Hisself to let the people know surely, that it was Him the Messiah, He should do the same thing today, if He is the same.


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