<TITLE>12. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 Let's go back now to Saint John the 1st chapter, and find out what He was. We're reading in Saint John, and we could go back here to the--the 1st chapter of Saint John and we read this. Now, let's start at the beginning of His life and take a few verses here. And then the first thing you know... Tomorrow night we'll pick up some more, and just keep finding what He is as we go along.
But being that we haven't got but just about twelve, fourteen more minutes before we start the prayer line, let's think of what He was yesterday. Now, we find Him here in Saint John.
Like all the other Gospels begin, we find Him at His birth, and we know how mysterious that was--that He was the Son of God, the very Seed of the woman promised in the garden of Eden. And then we find out that at the age of thirty He was baptized in the river of Jordan by John the Baptist.
And when He was baptized, going straightway out of the water, we find that the Holy Spirit, God, like in a form of a dove, coming from heaven in a voice, saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell." And the right translation of that, "Who I am pleased to dwell in," 'cause God was in Christ.

L-40 And now, when He came down upon Him He become the Anointed One, the Messiah. We find out then temptation, into the wilderness. And immediately returning from His temptation He went about healing the sick, casting out devils, setting the people at liberty. Let's see then. The first thing that He did was start preaching the Gospel and healing the sick, all those that were oppressed by the devil.
Now, let's take some of His signs. Now, is He a Messiah? Now, we realize that they've had Divine healing even before He come on earth. How many knows that? The pool of Bethesda was a healing sign. And down through the ages they've had all kinds of healing. But there was supposed to be a sign following this Messiah. He had a Messiahic sign. And if He was Messiah, which is the Anointed One, the Christ, then there was to be a sign of Messiah follow the Messiah.
There's a sign follows the believer. You believe that? God is a God of signs, wonders, and miracles. And if He was that the first time, He's that the second time, He's that the third time, He's that every time.

L-41 Remember, when you read the Word of God, as we Protestants believe it to be the infallible Word of God... Then when God is ever called on the scene to act and has to make a decision, the way God acts on that case He has to act on every case thereafter the same. Because... I could make a decision today and it could be right; tomorrow I might make the same decision and it would be wrong, because it was wrong at the first place, maybe. But when God ever makes a decision, it's perfect. 'Cause we are finite, we make mistakes. God's infallible, and infinite, and cannot make a mistake.
Therefore, what God said is perfectly right. And if He was ever called on the scene to save a sinner, the attitude He took towards that sinner, He will have to take the same attitude towards every penitent sinner from thereafter. If He was called on the scene to heal a sick person, the attitude He took towards that sick person, every sick person comes to Him He must act the same way, or He did wrong when He acted the first time. There's God. Is that right?
So what Jesus was yesterday, He has to be the same today, or He was wrong yesterday. His Messiahic sign that He showed to the people then, if that was wrong, then He--He'd have to say the same thing today. And if it isn't... It has to be right, because He was God. And now... If He was right then and that was a sign, it's the same sign today, and will be forever.


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