<TITLE>04. Par 12-13</TITLE>L-12 Now, we would ask You to bless the church; continue to bless it. We want to thank You for what You're doing for this local body here of believers, these sainted, godly people who fear Your Name, Lord, and believe You that You will come someday to receive us. Though we sleep in the dust, it shall not hinder, for the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. We're going anyhow. Death cannot stop us. Nothing can hinder us from meeting Him.
O God, we're so glad to have the Blood of Jesus applied to our souls, His Spirit dwelling within us. We pray now that You'll make every one of us citizens of the Kingdom tonight. God, heal the sick and the afflicted. Get glory to Thyself.
And as we approach Thy Word now for a message to this waiting congregation, some waiting to be blessed, some waiting to be filled, some waiting to be healed, some waiting to be saved, let the Holy Spirit minister to every one of us, Lord, according to our needs. And my need deeply is now, Lord, is You. Come and speak, O God, and let the Holy Spirit move upon the Word as He moved on the water in the beginning, and say, "Let there be light," as the Word goes forth, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-13 In the reading, if you'd like to mark it... And I've been used the last few weeks to speaking and marking down portions of Scriptures, and I got about four pages of them here. I don't know how I would ever get to them.
But, if you'd like to do it, why, you're more than welcome. I think sometimes now that the end is so nigh, I thought maybe I'd just teach a little on the subject.
You might turn to Saint John the 1st chapter. And we would read the 1st Scripture out of the 1st chapter, and the 2nd Scripture reading out of the 4th chapter of Saint John. Saint John the 1st chapter and the 40th verse of the 1st chapter. We read down to the 43rd. And the 4th chapter, we begin at the 24th, 25th, and 26th verse. 1st chapter, 40th verse...
 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
 He first finds his own brother Simon, and said unto him, We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jonah: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
And the 24th verse of the 4th chapter we read this.
 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
 The woman said unto him, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
 Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
I want to take five-lettered word from there for a text: M-e-s-s-i-a-s, Messias.
I want my subject tonight to be around the word, "The Messiah." The word itself means "the Anointed One," or it could be used "the Anointed King." And it also means "Christ." But we're going to use it first in this thought of "the Anointed King."


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