<TITLE>05. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 Well, then we'll find out if He is the same today. Now, this little talk 'fore I read my Scripture, and for a few moments then we're going to go right into the praying for the sick, and just make this a great night of praying for the sick, and then tomorrow afternoon, the preaching.
Now, I want to ask to the newcomers something. If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, well, what was He yesterday? That's what I want to know. What was He yesterday? And if we can find out what He was yesterday, He will have to be the same thing today, or the Scripture's wrong (Is that right?), the Scripture is wrong.

L-19 Now, Methodist, and Presbyterian, all of you, let's just lay it down and look at it, and see if it's right. If He was yesterday something, and He isn't the same today, then the Scripture's wrong, and truly He died, and the Mohammedans is right, and the rest of them, He's dead and buried, and His disciples stole Him away and--and that settled it, He's gone forever.
Now, that if--if He isn't the same... If this book... If one Word in It is wrong, to me It's all wrong. It's either every bit right, or it's all wrong. If--if one Scripture is not inspired, then to me there's none of them inspired.
A person is--is either a good man, or he's not a good man. True. And that's the way God is... He's--He's still God, or He's not God. And this is His Word and He's duty-bound to His Word, or either This is not His Word, and we're all wrong in the Bible.

L-20 But I am so happy tonight to know this, as a poor illiterate man, but yet I am so thankful to know this, that beyond one shadow of doubt, I know that this is His Word; and He's just the same; and He's alive tonight, and all other gods are--are failures. And there's no other God outside of Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ which is His Son was God made manifest in flesh.
They... And it is true, and by God's grace through His Divine gift we can prove that beyond one shadow of doubt.
And then what kind of people should we be when we see that proved to us. When Jesus promised, when He was here on earth. Now, we'll watch Him as He goes in His ministry, just for a few moments. This is for the newcomers.
As He moved in His ministry, we found out He wasn't born a king, or He was a King when He was born, but not a--a earthly king. He was a heavenly King. And He wasn't received when He was born, by the earth.

L-21 No true messenger... Listen now. No real true messenger, to this day, or no day at any time, has ever been received by the world. No messenger of God has never been received by the world.
And may I say this a little stout now? Never did the ecclesiastic system of this world ever receive God's messenger. Think of that. Through all ages when men makes their ecclesiastical systems, and God sends His messengers, they've condemned him.
Jesus said, "Which one of the prophets has your fathers not stoned?" Which one of them? See? Sure, they're always condemned when they have the message of God, 'cause it is contrary to man's thoughts of God. Man tries to make his own theory. See? And he can't do it.

L-22 And we have to have people who will go after such 'cause, as my father used to say, "It takes all kinds of people to make up the world." And we've got them.
Now, when He was here on earth... Let's follow Him just in one Book, and that Book of Saint John. Let's follow Him just for a few moments and see what He was yesterday. And then we can--we can kind of settle our minds what He is today then. Is that true enough? If we can follow Him...


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