<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-14-1 There's One among us tonight, but I'm glad we know Him. And I believe He's the One that's bearing record. The great Holy Spirit is bearing record that Jesus is coming soon, for it's according to the Word, and all of the signs are being fulfilled. We are at the end time.
He didn't want to stay any--make any mistakes, so he stayed in the wilderness until he was convinced that he would know what the Messiah was. And God told him what kind of a sign to look for, when he saw the Messiah. So when he saw Him and saw the sign that was supposed to follow Him, he was convinced that that was He. He said, "I bear record that that's Him." For God, Who had told him and foretold him by the prophet 712 years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Prepare the way of the Lord and make His paths straight." And the God that had foreordained him and predestinated him to the job, he waited on that God till he heard from that God. Amen. When that God told him what was going to take place, he was convinced. When he saw that sign, he said, "There He is." Amen.

L-14-3 If we would just be that sincere, if we would wait at the altar, not get some kind of a little feeling and jump up and run away, but stay there. No matter what happens, stay there until you're perfectly convinced by the power of His resurrection that the Holy Ghost has took ahold in you and holding you, and you're a new creature in Christ.
Stay there until you're dead and raised up again. Then you won't go to water a hypocrite. You'll go there, and you know that He's--He died for you and you died with Him. And now you're going down to be raised with Him again; show the world that you believe that He died and rose again, and you're dead with Him, and has already raised again. And now you're going to set in heavenly places eating sheep Food.

L-15-1 Andrew, this great one that we're speaking of, the brother of Simon, he stayed all night until he was convinced. As he was going along the bank, John, this great prophet, kept saying, "There's One. The time is at hand. All you generations of snakes in the grass, don't think to say, 'I belong to this and I belong to that; we have Abraham to our father.' I tell you; God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." Oh, he was just laying to the--axe to the root of the tree.
See, John was a wilderness man. Look what he talked of: axes, trees, snakes. See? That's what he's used to out there in the wilderness. And he said, "The axe is laid to the root of the tree, and every tree that don't bring good fruit's going to be cast down and burned." Hitting the axe against the tree; cutting off snake's heads and everything. He was a wilderness man.

L-15-3 No wonder Jesus said, "What'd you go out to see?" In that "Forgotten Beatitude," as I preached on it, when He went across the hill, the disciples (of John) said, "What did you go out to see? a man dressed in fine clothes?" He said, "That's the kind that they're called, 'Doctor, Holy Father.' And they wear soft clothes and they kiss the babies, and marry the--the young, and bury the old. He handles a pen knife." What would a man like that know about a two-handed sword out on the battle front? "Did you go out to see one?"
Said, said then, "Did you go to see a reed shaken with any wind, that any little group can come along and shakes you from this to that and this to that?" Not John, he was convinced. He knowed where he stayed. He knowed his position: wasn't shaking John around. No, no.
Said, "What did you go to see then, a prophet?" He said, "And I say to you, greater than a prophet. He's more than a prophet."


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