<TITLE>06. Par 23-24</TITLE>L-23 Now, you that like to take the texts, or wants to read in the Scriptures with us, if you will turn in your Bibles to St. John the 1st chapter, I want to read quite a portion of the Word out of St. John the 1st chapter. And now, we're going to begin with the 15th verse of St. John the 1st chapter.
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
And the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No man has seen God at any time; but the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,... has declared him.
For this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an--an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
And he said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as saith the prophet Esaias.
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, or Elias, or--or neither that prophet?
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom you know not;
He it is, whom cometh after me is preferred before me, whose shoe latchets I am not worthy to unloosen.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day... (Pardon me.)... John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which take away the sin of the world.
This is he... whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And I knew Him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon--upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
And looking upon Jesus as he walked,... said, Behold the Lamb of God!
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
And then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said unto them, What seekest ye? and they said unto Him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
And He said unto them, Come... see. And they came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
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.

L-24 May the Lord add His blessings to this reading of His Word. And now, with the deepest of interest, may I call your attention just for a few moments to a--a little text that--if I'd call it that... Setting at the desk awhile ago, about three or four o'clock this afternoon, reading this struck me. And to draw a text from this I want to take this--these two words, "Convinced Then Concerned," "Convinced Then Concerned."


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