<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 But He's never left us. He's here in the Spirit called the Holy Spirit. Now, when He led the children of Israel, He was in a form of a Light (All of you know that.), a Pillar of Fire.
When He come on earth He was a man, come down into flesh to take away sin. He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." He went to God.
After His resurrection, there was a man who saw Him. After His resurrection, after He'd ascended on high, and His body had been taken back to God, and was setting on the throne, there was a man saw Him. And I believe that's Acts about the 8th chapter, 9th, somewhere along there. And that man's name was Paul. And he was on his road down to Damascus, and a Light (That right?) struck him down, right in the middle of the day, and he said, "Who art Thou that I persecute?"
He said, "It's Jesus." He was in Spirit form.
And that's the form He will be until He returns in His corporal body. He will be in Spirit form, a Light. God is Light. He was in the beginning. He's still the Light. He was made flesh, went back to Light, and will be Light till He comes in the flesh. And when He comes again the second time in the flesh, then our bodies will be transformed, and made like unto His, and we'll be with Him forever. What a beautiful, rejoicing thing that is.

L-21 But now, while He's here working with His Church in the form of the Spirit... Then if His Spirit is with us, He will act just exactly like He act when He was here on earth. It'll make you act the same way, because it's not your spirit any more; it's His Spirit in you, Christ's Spirit in you.
"The things that I do... He that believeth on Me (Saint John 14:12.), the works that I do, shall ye do also." See? We'll do the same works, think the same thoughts, live the same type of life. If the Spirit of God is in you, it makes you live like Christ, Christ-like. Then you become a written epistle, read of all men, Christ in you, reflecting His Light out of you, as God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, and reflecting God from His own body. No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. God was in Christ. And what Christ's attitude was, was God's attitude, 'cause the two work together, the Spirit and flesh united together. Got a sermon on that: "The Dove And The Lamb." Want to get on it one night, one of these weeks.

L-22 All right, notice now, now when He come, back on the day of Pentecost in Spirit form to be with His church unto the end of the world. Not the end of the apostles, but the end of the world. And apostles, yes, I can make that right and say, "True." Because an apostle means one that's sent.
An apostle today, a modern apostle is nothing in the world but a missionary. Now, if you'll tell me what the word missionary means, then tell me what apostle means. Apostle means "one sent," and a missionary means "one sent." It's the same thing.
Apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists, those five ministering gifts is set in the church. 
Now, let's take the only just way we could do this; if I'd say tonight to the Presbyterian, "And, what do you think about this? Do you think that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever?"
"Yes sir, I do."
Baptists, Methodists and so forth, they'd all witness the same. "Well," they'd say, "our church teaches that; our church believes that." That's true. I believe that, but with all my heart I believe...
I've just come from a meeting at Lima, Ohio, sponsored by the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian, and such a meeting I--I tell you. The hundreds each night, swarmed to the altar, weeping, seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit.


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