<TITLE>04. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 And we as ministers has got to let our lives be not in some organization. Them things are all right to keep brotherhood and so forth, I mean. But they have their place, but we ourselves must be completely surrendered in Christ, so the Holy Spirit can flow through us. See? And that brings forth the original fruit of Pentecost, which is... The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, you know, that real thing.

L-19 Now. Just a... I got to stop now, but... Here, when Jesus was on earth, He was that Vine. He brought forth the headstone, we know... We realize that. He was the first. Now, let's watch Him as He went around. He didn't go around with His dress different from other men. He had no different action. He just a gentle sort of a Fellow, as I preached some time ago on--on "The Forgotten Beatitude." It's found over in Matthew the 11th chapter and the 6th verse, where John the Baptist had sent forth first, you know, and introduced them to the Messiah. He--he was a great prophet, John, between the two ages, between law and grace. And he'd preached that the--there was a Messiah coming that was going to thoroughly purge His floors, and gather the grain, and He was going to be a great Messiah that was going to tear down the Roman empire.

L-20 And then John waited in the wilderness till he was sure he'd know what sign that was. He never went to school. Remember, John went into the wilderness at nine years old. He had--he had a commission from God. It could not be an ecclesiastical ring-around something. It had to be genuine. So he waited in the wilderness until he heard from God.
And God said, "You will know him, because there'll be a sign over him. You'll see this sign, and that'll be the Messiah."
And John bare record, saying, "I saw the Spirit of God like a dove descending upon him." And he announced publicly, "This is the Messiah."

L-21 But then, there's something happened, disappointment. That's what happens to all of us. In your healings and things you'll find out looks like something didn't work just right. Remember, that's the enemy, and God's permitting it to give you a trial of it, see what you're going to do.
Now, instead of Jesus coming like John said he would come, and John saw the sign and knew it was Him... He introduced to the public, "That's him, for I see the sign that God told me."
But when he got down in trouble, and his eagle eye got filmed over, as Pember said, and he didn't see so well... He thought, "Here, I preached the Messiah was going to free the people. And here a little gentle Fellow, pushed around from here and there: a strange Messiah."

L-22 But what he couldn't understand, there was the sign over Him but yet He was so much different. He wasn't that great guy was going out and tearing up everything, like he thought He would. He was little, gentle, meek sort of a Fellow, pushed around from here to there, you know. "What a strange fellow this Guy is."
So he sent two of his disciples, and said, "Go ask Him, is He the one?" Now, that was the poorest compliment that he could've ever paid to Jesus, after he'd announced that that was the Messiah, and then come back and say, "Is that Him?" But Jesus understands our weaknesses. He turned around and paid the greatest compliment that He could pay to any man, to John.
Watch Him, when John come and said... When John sent his disciples, come, said, "Are you He, or do we look for another?"


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