<TITLE>04. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 Now, don't forget it's seven o'clock, daylight saving time, tomorrow afternoon, come for the prayer cards. And at eight o'clock the services will begin.
Now, just for the way of a little talk. And I'll try be just as briefly as possible. But just a regular little routine talk to get the people acquainted with the ministry, 'cause there was probably one third of the people that did not raise up their hands and they never been in one of the meetings before. So now, just a little routine talk on the Gospel, and a question to ask. Then tomorrow night we will change the subject into another line of thought.
And I want to read tonight a very familiar text in my--my campaigns, found in Saint John the 11th chapter, 30th verse, or I beg your pardon, the 20th verse.
 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
And the same there came to Philip, which was of Bethesda of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
Now, in Hebrews the 13th chapter and the 8th verse, I want to read for a text. It's very familiar. We all know it by heart. It said.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.

L-11 And that's been my theme through the years. I read that same Scripture when I was here before. And I hope to read it until death shall take me from the earth. Because, I do solemnly believe that with all my heart, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's called in the Bible, "The Alpha and Omega; He that Was, Which is, and Shall Come." That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. "He that Was, He that Is, and Shall come," just the same. He never changes. We change; time change; but God never changes.
I was having my dinner today, or I think you call it your lunch. I always miss out if I call that lunch and call supper dinner, because I been used to used to having breakfast, dinner, and supper. And if I call this lunch, then I feel like I've missed my dinner somewhere my supper somewhere, along the road. So believe it or not, I was with a Catholic priest having dinner today. And we were talking about the--how that times had changed so much in the past few years.

L-12 Oh, it's remarkable how that same man that God made in Genesis and gave him his five senses, and how he lived for most six thousand years without hardly changing at all. And in the past fifty years has progressed a thousand times to one, what he was fifty years before. Just think, it hasn't been too long ago, the only way to send a message was from lip to ear, or by a letter, a runner. And now, news scatters around the world in just about two minutes, completely around the world. Oh, how times change. But I am so happy tonight that we're serving an unchangeable God. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I could hardly believe that anyone who ever heard that marvelous Name of the Lord Jesus, every once breathed, but what they longed to see Him.
And that was the desire on these Greeks who came up to the feast to worship. They said to Philip of Bethesda, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." They'd heard of Him. "Faith cometh by hearing." Now, we've preached the Gospel for many years. For nearly two thousand years the Gospels been preached. Faith cometh by hearing. But this question was to those Greeks, "We would see Jesus, not we would hear His Word, but we would see Him."


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