<TITLE>05. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 And now, my thought to you is this, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why can't we see Him tonight just as well as we could see Him then, if He is the same? Now, you say, "Oh, well, He's ascended. He--He died and rose again, and He ascended on high. That is true. "But when He ascended on High," the Bible said, "He led captive captive, and gave gifts unto man." The Bible also states, Jesus' Own Words, in the 14th chapter of Saint John, the 7th verse, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." And He said again, "A little while and the world sees Me no more (That's the word, does the world--the world order); yet, ye shall see Me, for I (And 'I' is a personal pronoun.), I'll be with you to the end of the world. I, Jesus, will be with you (One place He put it.) even in you, unto the end of the world. And (Compare these Scriptures.) the works that I do shall you also. By this ye would see Me, and the world would ignore it."

L-14 Now, they--they found fault with Him in His ministry here on earth, because He didn't affiliate with any of their organizations. He stood out. When people said evil things against Him, He never opened His mouth. He was a different person. And therefore, He wouldn't fuss with them nor argue with them. He never was a graduate of their schools or colleges. And He dealt among the common, poor people. In Luke it says the common people heard Him gladly. The religious people of that day turned Him down. He never was too much of a drawing card to the people. His audiences were rather small, comparison to when the Orthodox church put on something. They'd come by the tens of thousands and up to the millions, I suppose. It was a--a routine; it was a religious act that they all must be there. But the ones who come to hear Jesus was those who desired to hear Him. It wasn't a political thing. It was those who were hungry hearted and wanted to see God. And that would be the type, I think tonight that He was speaking of, "Yet ye shall see Me." There will be an "ye" class until the end of the world, until Jesus comes.
Am I making you deaf by that? Thing certainly has a good voice. I... Is it too loud? If it is raise your hands. Just it's a little bit too loud. If the--that's... Thank you, Leo or Gene.

L-15 "Ye shall see Me." That better? All right. Ye shall see Me. Now, if Christ has risen from the dead, and we are given the invitation and the Scripture that He promised, that He--we could see Him, and that we--He would be the same yesterday, today, and forever, then would you desire to see Him? Would you? If you'd raise your hands? Would every Christian believe it that? I--I would, with my hands up; I would love to see Him. Well, now, how can we see Him? The way we can see Him is by His works. Now, he hasn't come in a corporal body yet, among us. He's here in a spiritual body (You believe that?), a spiritual body called the Holy Spirit. He's in the form of the Holy Spirit.
In the beginning God was a Spirit. And all the fountain of goodness and mercy and power, and all the good things of love, God was the center of that fountain. And then the Logos that went out of God in the beginning become what we would call a theophany, or a--a supernatural body. God is just not like the air, but He's in a body. Moses seen Him pass and said it looked like the back part of a man, and so forth. And then that same theophany was made flesh and dwelled among us. And we beheld Him, the only begotten of the Father: Christ.


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