<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-12-4 Why? You've got to be convinced first that it is God. Then you know where you're standing. True. Convinced first, then you get your concern. Although people claim God's with them, but they're... It's not all... Mother used to say, "Actions speaks louder than words." Certainly it does. You must act it, believe it, be convinced, and then you'll be concerned.
Jesus said, "If you love Me, feed My sheep." Now, that's where I think we've failed a lot, is feeding His sheep. "If you love Me, feed My sheep." Today it's almost, "shear my sheep." Get them into a place and take everything they've got, and make them pledge their home and all of their old age pensions and everything else. Talk about a shearing; Jesus never said that.

L-13-1 Brother Parker said this morning, "God loves His people." He loves His sheep. He said, "Feed them." And sheep must have sheep food. And He never said, "Educate My sheep." He said, "Feed them," not educate them; feed them; give them sheep food.
What is sheep Food? The Bread of Life (Jesus is the Bread of Life), Gospel, Truth. Preach it without compromise. Then you know that when you have to answer at the day of the judgment for their souls, as a minister of the Gospel, you can stand and say, "That's what was wrote in the Word." Feed them the Truth. Feed My sheep.

L-13-3 When John was so concerned that he knew that the Messiah was coming in his age... John the Baptist knew it. So he knowed that the Messiah would come in--in the age that he lived in, but when he come out of the wilderness, he never started no schools; he never started no colleges; he never started no organizations. Why? He was convinced that the Messiah would come in his time. His fruit, his message, his action gave witness to it. And we believe that He's coming in this age.
Why do we want to hoard up big things? Why do we want to do--build millions of dollars in schools and buildings, and then saying Jesus is coming? Why, the public knows better than that. They know you're talking about something that you don't believe. Practice what we preach. Right. Now, we must do that.

L-13-5 John was so positive. When he was born, he knowed he was born a odd birth. We all know how Zacharias saw the Angel. And that must've been a strain on the old couple. Zacharias was an aged man, and Elisabeth was an aged woman, but they had believed that--that God would someday give them a baby. She was barren.
And we know when John was born, the peculiar birth and knowing that he would be God's servant must've been hard on the old couple. For they know according to the time of life, they would never live to see that boy come into his ministry. And John's father was a priest. But instead of him with that calling going down to the seminary where his father come out of, he couldn't go down there. He could not take a chance on it. He just couldn't get mixed up with it, because he seen that in the Scripture, he was to be the voice of one crying in the wilderness. He saw that he was to be the messenger that would go before the Messiah, and he must be certain of it. And he waited in the wilderness until he was convinced, and then he was concerned. He was convinced. He wanted to... He wanted to stay. He was so certain of it, that he would see Jesus, until he said this: "There... He's standing there among you now. There's One among you Who you don't know." Oh, I like that.


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