John the Baptist Willing to Be Excelled - Part 2 — Roy Hession

Will you please turn to Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 11. Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 11. We're having our second study in this beautiful man, John the Baptist. I really am looking forward, for myself, to a more complete study than I personally have made, and then it's possible, in these two meetings.

John the Baptist as the Greatest of the Prophets

He was the greatest of the prophets, greater than Isaiah, greater than Jeremiah, and Jesus said so. In fact, they're none greater among the sons of men, apart from Jesus, than this man, John the Baptist.

It's a wonderful story, it's a sad story, but sadness is never the last word in the things of God. And now we turn to Matthew 11, verse 2. Now when John had heard in the prison, how in the world did he get there?

As you go through Matthew, that's the first time you hear that he's gone to prison. It's rather strange how that is the reason, how it's recorded. In Mark, it just breaks in, when Herod heard of the miracles of Jesus, it's John the Baptist, risen from the dead, whom I beheaded, therefore might he work to show forth themselves in heaven.

Beheaded? How did that happen? And then it backtracks, I tell you. So here, we're told he's in prison, later on he's being beheaded, before it tells us how he got into prison, or how he came to be beheaded.

Well, you know how he got into prison, this man had the temerity, not only to challenge the scribes and the Pharisees and the publicans and the sinners, who came to hear him with their sins and call them to repentance, but even to challenge a king.

And Herod had married his brother Philip's wife, and John the Baptist had the temerity to go into the court and say, it is not lawful for thee to hammer. And he got a reaction which isn't to be wondered at, seeing sinners are stiff-necked, instead of bowing to the word of God by John the Baptist, he tried to silence that word, and had John the Baptist put in prison.

He was in prison some time before it reached its culmination. And before Herodias had her way, a little plot came off, and an executioner was sent to behead John the Baptist. This one who spoke so nobly of Christ, whom Jesus had said such glorious words of commendation about, and here he is, in prison, and later to be beheaded.

John the Baptist's Doubt in Prison

Now at this particular point, he's just in prison. He doesn't know how it's going to eventuate. He's paid the price for challenging sin in one and authority. He's put in prison. He little knew it was going to be even worse.

And when he was in this period, and a very low place in his history, in his fortune, now when he had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and he said something quite extraordinary.

Art thou he that should come, or look we for another? You can hardly believe it's John. He was the one who said, Behold the Lamb of God, that beareth the sins of the world. Great saying. He is the one who was so sure that Jesus was the promised one, that he said of him, He must increase, but I must decrease.

And here he is, beginning to doubt the whole thing. Art thou he that should come, or look we for another? I think these are three great sentences of importance that John added. The Lamb of God, that beareth the sin of the world.

Thank you, John. And oh John, how wonderful for you to be so sure you're only the best man at the wedding, but now the bridegroom's come. He's going to increase, and you're going to decrease, but now what are you saying, John?

What are you saying? Are you doubting the whole thing? Art thou he that should come, or we've still got to look for another? Is there a more important question, for you, for me? Art thou he that should come, are you the answer we thought you were, or have we got to go on still searching?

Isn't that important? And Jesus answered and said unto him, Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see. In another account, Jesus didn't answer immediately. He just went on performing an array of those glorious miracles of grace in people's lives and bodies.

And then he said, See, now go and tell John the things which you do see, the blind, receive their sight. The lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the dead hear, the dead even are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Those phrases are phrases which are prophesied to Messiah in various places in Isaiah. But quite apart from the prophecies, they were wonderful in their own right. Just go and tell him what you see grace doing by means of my word and my touch.

And then just add something, will you? Perhaps this is the most important thing. And blessed is he, make a point of this, won't you? Just add, and the master said, Blessed is he who is not offended in me, is not who put off by me because I haven't fulfilled exactly your picture of me.

And because, John, you've been left to rot in prison, don't let that fact stumble you. There are some people, they're the most blessed people, and nothing puts them off. There are some people, anything will put them off.

They come to our conferences, don't like this, don't like this, don't like that. There are other people, no problem to anything. Blessed are the people that will suck honey out of any old rock. And there are some, they're better at it than me.

Sometimes I don't always get as much for meeting as they do. Oh, but they got something. I said, Brother, you've learned to suck honey out of any old rock if it's about Jesus. And so, John the Baptist, who'd spoken so nobly of Christ, who was the promised one to prepare the way for him, who'd had this mighty ministry and who's so insistent, I'm not the Christ, don't you get it?

I know it's a great, we're only having great meetings, but I'm nobody. I'm simply the voice of one crying in the wilderness. The come is one after me, who's preferred before me. He's the one who's going to do things.

He's the one who's going to baptize with the Spirit. He's the one. And the Lord had said, you know, you won't know who he is, but when you see the dove alighting on him, then you'll know that's the one who baptizes with the Spirit.

Baptism and Being Filled With the Spirit

By the way, I don't think we necessarily need to think of being baptized in the Spirit as an extra blessing different from our conversion. I know this is merely terminology. If we can get our terminology right, it's okay.

If you don't, it isn't all that important. But you know, I suggest an aside, Jesus said, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit. And John the Baptist has said, I'm baptized with water, he's going to baptize you with the Spirit.

And I think Jesus was talking about that. Not enough to be born of water. Not enough to be baptized with water. Except you're baptized with the Spirit, you won't enter into the Kingdom of God. And I think being born of the Spirit, and being baptized in the Spirit, it's my own personal conviction, whether you think otherwise, you're perfectly at liberty to do so, and I shan't think any of the less of it, because I'm only expressing as I personally see it.

And this is the one who does this great in the sons of men. He immerses them in the Spirit. If I may just digress even one other step. There's a difference between being baptized in the Spirit and being filled with the Spirit.

Here's a sponge, and there's a basin of water, and you plunge that sponge, which you hold tightly, into your hand, and it's baptized in the water. But not only is it in the water, but in some measure, the water is in the sponge, in spite of the fact you're holding it.

But if, having plunged it into the water, you take your hand off it, then it's filled with the water before the water was in it. Now it's filled by the water which is in it. And so, if we want to get our terminology written in Scripture, and this is more and more generally received by various branches of the Church of God, that the baptism of the Spirit, as far as terminology is concerned, is being the same as being born of the Spirit.

Ah, certainly we can be filled with the Spirit in whom we've been baptized, by all means. And let's not be satisfied with anything less. That should be the normal experience. And it's not once for all.

It's not once for all. As occasion demands, you need very specially to be filled with the Spirit. In any way, on Monday morning you need to be filled with the Spirit, just as much as on Sunday, when you are taking that service.

Why John Began to Doubt the Promised One

And in spite of the fact that John the Baptist had seen Jesus to be the one, he's here asking this tremendous question, Are thou he that should come, or look we for another? I said to Pam, don't you see there's music in these wonderful old English words?

Or do we look for another? Well, that's what we'd say today, but I like it. Or look we for another? It's poetic as well as expressive. So tell us this wonderful language of hers. I love languages. There are a lot of words I don't know, because alas, whereas I did do Latin, I never did Greek.

And we were discussing about certain words, synthesis. There was another word, something similar. I said, you know, that's a trouble. That's a Greek word. The great thing, our language is however basically Anglo-Saxon.

And Spurgeon decided as far as he was able, he'd only use as far as he could the Anglo-Saxon words. The words of the man in the street. And I suppose the King James Version is one that he uses, as I'm sure the other ones do too.

Amen. Art thou he that should come? Or look we for another? If you ask me why he should now entertain those doubts, I would say quite quickly two things. Although he pointed to Jesus Christ as the coming one, he had a mental picture of what that one was going to be and to do.

And the event didn't match up. They were under the thralldom of the Romans. I don't know, did he expect a national deliverer? Did he expect the Messiah to do greater things than he was doing? Did he expect him to be acclaimed by the people?

But he wasn't. All he did was to go about doing acts of mercy and grace, specializing in the poor and the sick and the needy, having nothing very much for the well or the important, specializing where there was need.

Perhaps he didn't fully understand that this one of whom he spoke was unlike Moses, who gave laws and commandments and put on a tremendous show at Mount Sinai. The law came by Moses, but grace came by Jesus Christ.

And it could be it didn't fit with his picture. And there was another reason. If he is the one that should come, why am I left to rot in prison? And there was a very personal reason for his doubt. It's a very often asked.

You may have some straightforward doubts about things doctrinally, but very often there's a personal thing that's getting you down, that you can't take. In God's dealings with you, hasn't done what you thought he would, hasn't healed you as you thought he was going to do, hasn't begun to use you as you thought he was, hasn't turned the church upside down, has left you with a very hard problem.

And that's why the Lord, having given his main answer, said, Blessed is he who is not stumbled in me. Does not find in me and my dealings that which stumbles him. And I believe this is a great word for us.

Rediscovering Grace and Revival

We've found him, of whom Moses and the law speak. We have found him as we understand who was to come. And more than that, we found him in a deeper way than we first found him. That always ought to be going on, a deeper and a deeper way, but we have.

We came to him though converted, weary and worn and sad, defeated, living in the wilderness rather than in Canaan. We've seen many beautiful things and we have thought this is it. I found him. But you had a mental picture of what Jesus was going to be, especially when we talked about revival.

People came out of revival, as you know they did, to share what they'd found. I don't know why, I asked Dr. Joe, I said, why hasn't the Lord worked in England, outwardly, in the same way as he's worked in East Africa?

I mean, the belocal in East Africa are a force to be reckoned with. Every government knows there's a people you may call the quiet in the land, but are mighty potent, who influence history as nothing else does.

Why is it known in that land, full of sinners, yes, but it's all known. There's forgiveness with God that he might be feared. So many have discovered that forgiveness and have testified to it, that it's a sort of common knowledge.

And when God works, that's what happens. They don't decide, they get born again. They expect it, they get saved. And I asked Dr. Joe, why has that not happened on that scale in England? He said, I don't know, do you know why?

I said, no I don't. But we expected that God would visit us in a wider way if we on our part were prepared to be the first to be revived. Yes, we got beyond the stage, I trust, when we were asking for God to revive his church and begin in the other people.

We got further to say, Lord, begin in me. If there's anybody needy in this church, it's me. Begin this work of renewal with revival in me. And he did. And you were blessed, as so many of us have been.

But maybe you had a mental picture that that was only the beginning. It was going to go to others, and in a wonderful way. History abounds, the history of the church, of movements of revival here and there.

And in our day, we know various movements of revival. And certainly that which most of us had contact with has been that in East Africa. One of the longest lasting revival movements of modern times. The Welsh revival lasted for two years.

It's still spoken of and rejoiced over. And we ask that God will do it again. But the one of which I speak has lasted for 50 years. This is the jubilee. I know it only began in two halves. But that's what you'd expect.

It's got to begin somewhere. The biggest river begins as a stream. And we've all had the picture that though the stream's begun, it's soon going to become a mighty river. And perhaps it hasn't happened.

And you've begun to entertain doubts. Art thou he that shall come? Oh, we've got to still go on looking for another. Have we got to still go on praying for the moon? Have we got to still trying this and trying that?

Oh, we've found our rest. But it hasn't eventuated in that larger thing that we hoped for. And it's possible for us to begin doubts. I want to take an illustration as a story about a dear brother whose name I couldn't possibly mention.

He's one of my dearest friends. He's not here present. And I'm sure he would stand by me and say, yes Roy, you tell him. Years ago, after the early days when some of us first made a rediscovery of the grace of God and the power of the blood, and there was a beginning of a little team of brothers, ministers and others from various groups.

And we knew we were in on something together. And we had sought to humble ourselves before God, to see where in the blood needs to cleanse. And we had found life and life more abundant in Jesus. And we were having a very small team conference in Swanwick.

We went much more than a handful. They were able to accommodate other people and they accommodated us. And I don't know how long after we'd first been helped, this incident took place, a few years. And there was one of our brothers who really took a tremendous lead with things.

It was he who first called some of us together into his vicarage after that early team had returned to Africa. We didn't know one another but we'd all just knew and heard that Cernzo had been giving a new testimony that shocked his church but blessed many people.

And another, and this dear brother had the initiative to call us together and entertain us. In his home. About 14 of us, I don't know how we all got in but we did. And so we began. And we were so thankful for the initiative that he took under the Spirit of God.

In those early days we may have had a public meeting, the Caxton Hall I remember. And it was the mere beginnings of the stream. And it was flowing. But on this occasion, this brother who'd been such an inspiration to us was very down in heart.

And it was because it had not worked out in his parish as he'd expected. There was a bunch there. They met regularly. They rejoiced in the Lord and they shared their testimony but only a bunch. And it was studiously avoided by many in the parish.

And he said, you know this isn't working out. He said, I had hoped that if we responded to Jesus didn't worry about the big thing just ourselves and went deeper and deeper with Him where we were told we were to be deeper broken to say yes Lord.

A deeper faith in the power of the blood and so on. If we went on like that the time would come when the top would blow off. And the Spirit would be out poured all around us. And he says it hasn't happened.

And he was beginning to entertain grave doubts. Art thou he that shall come? Is this the new sight of Jesus? That which we've needed and the world needs. We've begun but it hasn't worked out as I thought.

Or have we got to go on looking for another? Have we got to go on praying for the moon? Have we got to go on as if revival had not begun? We're still on the search. Well this really was quite a thing.

And I think mercifully we refused to move. We were sad to see our brother and the Lord recovered him in due course. Bless his heart. That's the John the Baptist experience because we've got this thing.

Grace as the Evidence of Christ's Work

Now what did Jesus tell to John the Baptist? Go and tell him the things that you see. The extraordinary happenings of grace. And they are all grace. There's not one whole man amongst the bunch of mentioned.

Not one good man. It was grace. The blind received their sight. I know it was on the physical level. But it was all pictorial of the spiritual. The lame, look at them walking. The lepers, they're free, clean.

The deaf, can you believe it? They're hearing him. Hear him be deaf. He dumbed your loosened tongues in ploy. The impossible is happening. I know it's not a big scale. I know it's not affecting the political situation of Israel with regard to the Romans.

But just look at it. And he enumerated the dead. He raised to life. He and the poor had the gospel preached to them. Well that's lovely. The people hadn't got any expectancy of getting any good news. They're getting it.

Now you go and tell him that. And that's my answer. Whether I am the one to come. Or whether you've got to look for another. I remember in those early days. We began our conferences at Abergele. It was just a bunch of us who had a new sight of Jesus.

And we invited other people to come and sit. We didn't really in those days say we're going to preach to you. You're going to learn with us. And I trust that's basically how it is with us to this day.

We want to get to learn with others. The deeper lessons of grace. Now I'd been for years in evangelistic work. Going up and down England under the National Young Life Campaign. After being in a bank, God led me to that.

I went up and down. And there was Adam Redpath. He too was as green as I was. We had no theological training. And with our Bibles we didn't think we needed it. And to this day I think I've been duly spared.

Though I must say. I would have liked to have had a real grounding in Greek and in Hebrew. That would have helped me. I could have even done without my youngs and a little concordance. If I'd had it. So I don't decry study.

No, far from it. Anyway. And I'd been doing evangelistic work. And God had been gracious and blessed. And people had been saved. And I'd heard many testimonies. But at the end of each week invariably there was a testimony meeting.

I tell you in those days. I heard testimonies. The like of which I'd never heard before. I'd never heard of people. Repenting of criticism of their vicars. And bringing that to the cross. I'd never heard of reconciliation.

Such as I was hearing of then. I'd never heard of the deep. The hidden things exposed and cleansed away. With consequent liberty. The blind were receiving their sight. The lame were walking. The lepers were cleansed.

The deaf were hearing. And there were conversions among them too. The dead were brought to life. Even without us trying. And I said if I don't know any other way. That this is that which God has got for us.

And even for England. I wouldn't know it now. It wasn't very important. It was only on a small scale. You see what you need are only tokens for good. That's been a great word with me lately in PAM. David said give me a token for good.

And you know all sorts of good things happen to us. Since I lose something for goodness sake. We can't do without it. Then we find a hallelujah. A token for good. A token not big in itself. But of a bigger thing.

God intends great good for us. And so I saw these things. If it can happen a few that's enough. I don't need a huge lot of people. Just give me one. Like that. That's a token. It's valid. It's true. It's eternal.

We found him. We found that answer. Which if widely received and applied. Would indeed mean. The revival of the whole church. With the blessing of God of course. A message in itself is inadequate. But the message should be such.

As designed. To bring new life. To the decaying saints of God. There are people who are praying for revival. But their message. In the wildest stretch of imagination. Isn't calculated to produce that.

For which they are praying. And the Holy Spirit must have a hard time. To use some ministries to the revival. But even when. Your message is on that line. Only the spirit of God. But at least. We should know I found the answer.

And I'm going to give no other. No other. I remind you. When the Lord was born. And the angels gave that great word. Great tidings of great joy. And this should be a sign unto you. If you follow the star.

You'll find a babe. Wrapped in swaddling clothes. Lying in a manger. This is it. This is the answer. And there's always a sign. Of a new vegetation of God. Not a big thing. But something small. God humbling himself.

Confining himself. To the form of a little babe. And around him. Others who are coming down. Off their pedestals too. To bow before him. It may not be in a big scale. It's got to begin. And it always begins small.

The extent to which it enlarges. That's up to God. Not my business. But because it doesn't seem big. You are inclined. I am. To entertain doubts. Art thou he that should come. Or look we for another. Yes it's Jesus who is the answer.

Jesus Himself as the Bread, Water, Blessing, and Revival

He talked about the bread of life. And they said oh give us this bread. He said I am the bread. He talked about the water of life. Oh give us the water. I am the water. He isn't the one who sends revival.

He is the revival. He isn't the one who gives the blessing. He is himself the blessing. A rediscovery of grace. A rediscovery of Jesus. A rediscovery of the power of his blood. Which is a continually available answer to sin and failure.

That's where the soul finds peace. And our vision is in God's time. That which he's begun will extend. But we do have our moments. I have. Who hasn't? There's a story told of the gold mining days in South Africa.

Going Deeper at Calvary Rather Than Seeking Another Blessing

And the early days. And a company would bring all its apparatus and dig a shaft and go down the shaft and explore the seams and find gold. They'd set up a whole apparatus and they begin to bring gold to the surface.

And there were apparently some occasions when a company would get so much gold that it could be more abundant than they'd found it to be. And someone would come along. Of course the trouble is with you fellows, you're in the wrong place.

You sink your shaft over there in that area, you'll find a very different story. And I haven't got the facts of all this, but this is a little illustration in any case. So they picked up all their gear and they started all over again to do another shaft somewhere else.

If perchance they'd find more gold there. And sure enough, they did find gold. Perhaps a little bit more, but still they weren't really satisfied. And some other perspectives, ah, it's somewhere else you must go.

And there were a number of places where a particular company had sunk their shaft. None of which had been entirely satisfactory. And later they discovered they needn't have gone any further than the first shaft, only deeper.

And out of that deeper still they find seam after seam with all the gold. Now I sunk my shaft at Calvary years ago. I found forgiveness, I found life. And then I wasn't sure that that was all that I ought to have.

And I used to read in those early days all sorts of books about the second blessing. We've always had a teaching about the second blessing. It's the hunger of the saints of God, as you'd expect. And I remember occasions when I was reading some book on the second blessing.

It varied with the writers to what the second blessing was. But I remember saying, Lord, I'm not going to get into bed tonight until I got that second blessing. I got on my knees, but nothing happened.

So I had to go to sleep without it. And so I've sunk shafts. I've got quite a history of them. I've tried. And then I discovered I needn't have gone off on any tangent at all. I've simply got to stay in that place where I began.

At that place where the just for the unjust died on the tree. But sink my shaft deeper there. Deeper conviction of sin. Deeper repentance. Deeper brokenness. And a deeper faith in all that the blood of Jesus made available to me.

Holding Fast to Jesus Amid Competing Christian Emphases

And to think and say as John did is quite unnecessary. Now, of course, today we're in a special situation. And I don't think John had it quite to contend with. You see, he might have said, this is the one.

And things were happening. But what if at this time when he was feeling well it doesn't quite match my expectations another teacher arose who was doing more spectacular things than Jesus. Now that would be a hard one for him.

But that's how it is today. This is a day a day of tangents, a day of trends and new things. Each one a little more spectacular than another. And really it poses a problem. Am I to contend myself with that which is not as spectacular not as wonderful as other things?

And we may be tempted to say with John Art thou he that shall come? Or have I got to look for another? Have I got to look for another answer? And what is the one? It's Jesus. And it is a day. It's quite extraordinary.

And even many dear friends of mine who have experienced a new work of the Spirit will bear witness of it. They're getting quite appalled at the new things come up next time. And then the new things. This is a problem for all groups.

Going off at tangents. Adding I would dare to say something in our emphasis to Jesus himself. And what happens is this. The thing added to Jesus ultimately becomes more important than Jesus himself. It always happens.

Take in the case of Rome. They have Jesus in the central place so they say. But they do have Mary. And it's nice to have Mary too because you can get to his heart better through Mary than going direct.

After all she is his mother. But you know it may not be so evident as it has been in the past. Mary ultimately becomes more important than Jesus. I remember being in Portugal. A Roman Catholic procession.

And there were two statues carried through. All the crowds were there. Very sweet singing. One of Jesus and one of Mary. I noticed all eyes were turned to Mary. And it was a beautiful statue. She looked so sweet.

And as they sang this sweet song to Mary there were tears in the eyes of the crowd. And she is subtly eclipsed. Now I'm not saying it's not a great problem to us now. Perhaps it's not so prominent as it used to be amongst our Catholic friends.

But I just quote that incident as an illustration. The thing added to Jesus. They said it's not enough to have Jesus. You must be circumcised. And ultimately circumcision became more important than Jesus in that early church and created more hoo-ha than anything.

And if it's not enough if it is enough, Jesus, thy blood and righteousness my beauty are. If that's not enough, but I must have something else. Ultimately that something else eclipses it. And what I want to say, let's take the warning.

Don't say I'm being partisan. I think there are all sorts of beautiful, valid experience of the Holy Spirit. But if you get hold of that and make too much of it, you're adding it to Jesus and in the end you become the apostle of that addition.

And it isn't enough to have Jesus his blood and righteousness. I must have this and that gift or this and that experience. It needn't become like that. I'm not saying it always is, but sometimes it is.

And all I say my dear friends, you be warned to learn to hold the head not to have it possibly said of you as Paul said to the apostles of the Colossians, not holding the head. The epistle of the Colossians is written to a people who are going off at tangents.

Chapter two of the epistle to the Colossians has four tangents that they are going off on. Not after Christ but after the rudiments of the world. Not holding the head. The four things may not be applicable to us today.

I don't think they are. The first might be for some beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit. I don't know why our theological colleges have to get their students to study philosophy.

I know those who are going the other way. At the London Bible College he lost his faith. He's away from God, given up all thought of the ministry. The only thing is he has given up all thought of the ministry.

I'm so glad he has. The trouble is they don't. Wish they would. And we have these men in the ministry. That may not be a very personal danger. It varies. But the fact that our tangents and ultimately those tangents are not after Christ.

They become prominent. They become almost in the centre. And so there's no need for us to say look we for another. All around us are the evidence of grace. And I want to tell you I really only need to have one evidence.

Actually we have many. I've written a number of books. And I've wondered what's the effect of it. I only need to have one bit of comeback. That's enough. For some of them I had a tremendous lot. Others well I don't need any more.

If through the message of grace one man gets transformed, I ask for more or less all the confirmation. And there we are a bunch of people at Abagail. It's just that much. The triumph of his grace. There was no other word to explain what was at the triumphs of grace.

Not the triumphs of men keeping doing their duty. The triumphs of grace who couldn't do their duty. It was beyond it. And the deaf were hearing and the blind were seeing. And it's happened all down the years.

The Fullness of God Dwells in Christ

So let's see what the truth of what Paul said in Colossians in him dwelleth all the fullness. It pleased the Father that in Jesus all the fullness dwell. In other words God put all fullness where flops and failures and sinners can get it in Jesus.

For Jesus is God brought down to earth. Available on street level. No depths to plumb. No heights to climb. As I am where I am if I admit where I am. There all fullness is available for me. And I believe there is in your awareness of that fact.

Because who wouldn't be inclined to want something more than they've received. And who isn't in danger of putting that new thing into such a place it almost competes with Jesus. We don't intend it to.

But it may. Now I want to share with you something very positive. I've been taken up, I've been reading through Isaiah lately. And I find a phrase I find a phrase there that touches me. Seven times it occurs.

None beside me. None beside me. I give you just one reference to it. Isaiah 44 verse 6. Again and again it occurs. And you will recognize it does when I show it to you. Isaiah 44 45 rather Halfway through verse 21 There is no God else beside me.

A just God and a Saviour. None beside me. And that comes some seven times. And you come into the New Testament there is none other than Him. And dear me let me tell you the Holy Spirit's work is to emphasize it.