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FINDING JESUS, FINDING PAUL
W. Moseley
John 1: 35–51; 2 Timothy 1: 16–18
I wish to speak about two persons who found Christ and about
a man who found Paul. In John’s gospel it speaks of these two
disciples of John who heard him giving testimony as to Jesus.
John was greatly affected when the Lord came on the scene.
The first thing he said about Him was, “Behold the Lamb of
God, who takes away the sin of the world”. He also said, “In
the midst of you stands, whom ye do not know, he who comes
after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to
unloose”, John 1: 26, 27. He had a great sense of the Person
of Christ, but then finally he says, as he looked on Jesus as
He walked, “Behold the Lamb of God”. I think that is the
Person; that is even greater than what He does—the Lamb of
God!
You will remember that when Abraham and Isaac went to the
mountain Isaac raised the question, “Where is the sheep for a
burnt-offering?” Abraham said, “God will provide himself with
the sheep”, Genesis 22: 7, 8.
Well, God has provided a Lamb, the Lamb of God, and John
had the sense that the Lamb of God had come in. How
wonderful His walk was, how pleasurable to God, and John
could take account of it. He would say that there was no one
who could walk like that. All that God had ever desired from
man was there in Jesus as He walked, and these two men
were affected by it and they followed Jesus. Well, you say, I
would like to be like John; I would like to be a true servant like
that. He was prepared to lose his disciples; he was prepared
to go out of sight, happily too. He goes out in joy. He is able to
present Christ in such a way that He becomes