<TITLE>17. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 Now, in the beginning of His ministry, I'll take one--one place when it's all through His ministry. He was preaching, and a man went off by the name of Philip to find his friend Nathanael; found him, brought him back: way over around the mountains from him. When he come to Jesus, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
Said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?"
Said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you.
He said, "Thou art the Son of God."
He said, "Because I told you that, do you believe?" Said, "You'll see greater things than this."
When He was here on earth He was able... People could touch Him. Now, a lot of people touched Him and didn't get healed. But those who touched Him... A woman did one day, went off... And He said, "Who touched Me?"
Said... Everybody denied it; "Nobody touched You."
He said, "Well, somebody touched Me, because I got weak. Virtue went out of Me." So He looked around until He found the woman, told her blood issue was over.

L-52 At the woman at the well, how He set there and talked to her... That was Samaritan woman. Now, the Jews recognized Him to be the Son of God because He had power to see visions as the Father would show Him and tell Him what to do. Now, He never performed one miracle Hisself. He said, "I do nothing except the Father shows Me first." How many knows that's the Scripture? Saint John 5:19. No prophet or no one else in the Bible ever did do anything without first God showing them.
And now, "The things," He said, "that I do, shall you also. Even more than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father. A little while and the world sees Me no more; yet you shall see Me." The "world" means "the unbelievers"; they won't see it. Said, "But yet, you shall see Me, for I'll be with you." And He promised to be in us to the end of the world.

L-53 Now, the Bible said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever: Hebrews 13:8. You believe that? Well then, if He is the same, He's got to be the same in principle; He's got to be the same in power; He's got to be the same in every way except a corporal body. Is that right? For God raised up His corporal body, setting on the right hand of God, and sent down the Comforter, which is Christ again [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... full of the Holy Spirit to minister into His church. And the Bible said that God has set some in the church: first, missionaries, secondarily, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. And then in the nine spiritual gifts is in the church, all to glorify God and to bring the church together... Now, if God doesn't die--hasn't died...

L-54 Now, if I pass down the Ganges River, or some other place of the heathen lands, where that tonight heathenism outnumbers Christianity by the millions and millions... But if I pass down, say, to the Shrine of Buddha... He died about twenty-three hundred years ago. And if I pass by his shrine... And in Japan, there they got a great big thirty or forty foot of statue made of him with great big ruby eyes, that's worth thousands and tens of thousands of dollars, and it's made out of the teeth and hair and bones of his followers: a statue unto Buddha. If I'd go to that shrine, or to his grave, he's laying in the grave.
If I go to the shrine of Mohammed... That's the greatest and most popular religion in the world is the Mohammedan: outdoes the Christians by many, many numbers. And if I go to the grave of Mohammed, a white horse has been standing for right on two thousand years: changed about every four hours, waiting for his resurrection. He's dead and in the grave. But there's only one, and that's Christianity that has a living God. Now, if we only know it in the way of theology, how much comfort can you give the people outside of just what they do: Read, give it to the people. But Jesus...


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