<TITLE>06. Par 61-69</TITLE>L-61 But he had an important job. He had to announce the Messiah, and he had to know what kind of a sign would be following the Messiah. Then he noticed, one day, he was standing, preaching to the people, he said, "There is One standing among you now, Who you know not, Whose shoes I am not worthy to unlatch, He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and Fire." He was so positive of his position, he was so positive of his ministry, till he said, "He is standing here somewhere now, among you!" He wasn't afraid to say it in the face of Pharisees and Sadducees, and--and soldiers, and whatever more it was. Some of them had looked for Him for thousands of years, but he said, "He is standing among you." Nobody could take it away from him. He was persistent. He was perseverant in the face of all. Yes.

L-62   This little Greek woman, no doubt, had heard of Him, heard of Jesus, the great revival. A young Prophet coming up in Galilee, from Nazareth, and was showing great signs and wonders. She had heard of Him, and, "faith comes by hearing." This Syrophenician woman, being a Greek. Faith finds sources that others don't see. When she heard, she believed. She might have heard of a neighbor's girl being healed of epilepsy, which the child had, and they might have heard of this epileptic being healed. So her daughter had need of healing, and she had heard Jesus could do it.

L-63 For, He was God's Word made flesh! Saint John 1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. The same yesterday, today, and forever!" He was there to reveal the promises of God for His day.

L-64   He is here tonight to vindicate and to reveal every promise that God made for this age. He is here to do it. He was in the days of the prophets. He was in Moses, He was in David, He was in Elijah, He was in the rest of them, to reveal God's promise of that age. God lotted His Word to each age, and He sends a prophet, and the Word goes to the prophet and straightens it out, and that's exactly what He has done through all ages. And He is God, and changes not. Jesus Christ is that Prophet tonight that stands among us. He is the One here in the form of the Holy Ghost, Who knows everything, and can reveal anything that He desires to do.

L-65   She believed this, no matter how much people didn't believe it.

L-66 Faith finds a source that other people don't know nothing about. When a man has got faith in God, he's got a hold of something that he can't explain it. It's something that he's got a hold of. He cannot push it, or shove it, or pull it. It takes Him. That's the way faith is, when a man really got faith in God, it finds that source that others don't see.

L-67   His Word is a sword. The Bible said so. You want reference to that, it's--it's Hebrews 4:12, as I got the text wrote down. The Bible said, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword." This sword has got to be held by a hand of faith. A hand of theology won't do it. It's got to take a hand of faith, trained in spiritual things, that knows God.

L-68 Again, might, as I might say this. How do you believe that Jesus looked upon the audience and perceived their thoughts? Because He was the Word. Let's quote the rest of the Word here, "Sharper than a two-edged sword, a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." He was the Word. That's the reason He could discern the thoughts that were in their heart.

L-69   Last night, as we took, "as it was in the days of Sodom," showed that Man standing there, eating the flesh of a calf, drinking the milk from the cow, eating butter and bread; standing there eating, with clothes on like you and I, with His back turned to the tent, and perceived what Sarah was thinking about in the tent. No wonder Abraham called Him Elohim, "the all-sufficient One, the self-existing One," Elohim.


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