<TITLE>12. Par 46-49</TITLE>L-46 Now, how many's here for your first time? Let's see your hands. Just look at the hands. God bless you. So glad to have you. I--I can't do justice, friend, in just a little time like this to explain to you. I just want to ask you something. And I'm sure you second comers will bear with me a minute.
My contentions is this: That Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the Bible says so. Do the newcomers believe that? Say, "Amen."
The Bible... Jesus when He was here on earth, He claimed that He was going back to turn to the Father again in form a Spirit, but would come in the form of the Holy Ghost and would abide with us forever. And the very same works that He did then, He would do through His Church until He come again. How many knows that's true say, "Amen." See? He promised it.
He said, "A little while, and the world (Now, what is the world, the worldly minded? See? The worldly minded people, church members and so forth) will see Me no more."
Did the church members actually see Him in that day? No, sir. They never seen Him in the light of Who He was. They seen His corporeal body, because they had a sense of sight, those who could see. Those who couldn't see, He gave them their sight, so they could see. He said to them, "It'd be better if you was born blind then you wouldn't know it." See?

L-47 But look. They saw Him in the light that He was a human being. But they didn't see Him in the light of the Son of God, 'cause they said He was a devil and was a mind reader, Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers. But there was some people then who believed Him. Is that right? They were called the common people.
Now, what did Jesus do? What was any different from Him than any other man? Now, if we can find out what He was then, He is the same today. If He is the same, if He's raised from the dead, and all that believes that he is, He did raise from the dead and is alive today say, "Amen." Means, "So be it."

L-48 Now, I'm just getting your attention. Now, notice. Then if the man... If this book went down on the floor, and I put this book in its place, that's not resurrection. That's replacement. But if this book went down, if it resurrected, it come back up, it's the same book.
Then Jesus in the resurrection to show that it ain't some other somebody else or something else, He's got to be the same. Now, He wasn't no great theologian. He wasn't no scholar. He never went to any seminary. He never had any degree. Not a record of anywhere where He ever even went to any schools or anything like that. But the best of the learned had come to Him for wisdom.
His disciples were ignorant and unlearned the Bible said. All but one, but Paul. And Paul said, "I had to forget all that I ever knowed in order to know Jesus Christ." Sometimes we have to do that too: forget what you know so you can learn Christ.

L-49 But now, what did He do? What was this man? Why did a little fellow like Him, no beauty you should desire Him, probably stoop shouldered. He was only thirty, and the people said He looked fifty. Why, said, "You're not a man over... not much over fifty years old and You say you seen Abraham."
He was only thirty. His work must've put a tremendous strain on Him, probably gray beard a little and gray in His hair. "And you say you seen Abraham?"
He said, "Well, before Abraham was, I am." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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