<TITLE>12. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 I declare to you tonight by the Scripture that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe that we're at the end of the time. I believe the judgment is at hand. I might be old fashion, might be considered a crank for saying this, but I believe that the coming of Christ is past due. I believe it's way past due, because God, like He was in the antediluvian world, He's long-suffering, not willing that any should perish but that all might come to repentance.
Oh, friend of mine, return to Christ. Return with your heart, return with all you've got and come to Him. Say, "Lord Jesus, I believe."

L-46 Now, if Jesus Christ, God's Son, said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. The works that I do shall you also. These things that I do, you'll do it also. I'll be with you even in you to the end of the world," then the disciples followed right behind Christ, doing the very same things that He did. That's right. Exactly.
They--when they found out that Peter and John were ignorant and unlearned men... They wasn't educated, neither was they smart. But they had to take notice that they had been with Jesus, because the Spirit that was in Jesus was in them doing the same things Jesus did, taking the same kind of a motive. And everything that Jesus had, that's what they had.
They--you don't have to be smart, you don't have to have an education. You just have to have a willing heart. God sends His faith down, His power. Faith is power. And we're to earnestly contend for it.

L-47 Now, if the Bible says in Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever," that's the truth or it is not the truth. If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He has to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in compassions, the same Christ, or He's not the same. Correct.
And if He is the same, and promised the same things that He did back there in His literal body, He would do here in His corporal body of His believers, "These signs shall follow them that believe. The works that I do shall you also; more than this, for I go unto My Father. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me; for I'll be with you even in you to the end of the world," those are promises.
These are promises, "A little while and the world sees Me no more." No matter what takes place, they'll never believe it.

L-48 Just look what's taken place. I'm just a little, teeny pebble to the great beach of great stones. But right in my own ministry, I have seen tens of thousands of people healed. The people are always complaining, "We never seen a miracle, there's not..." No wonder you can't see it. The Bible said you can't see it. You're blind, willfully blind. If the Bible said you'd never see it no more, you won't see it. But He said, "Ye shall see Me (the believer), for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you also." There you are. It's before the world.
Christ will come. He will be the judge. But before He can bring judgment, He has to offer mercy to be a just God. And if He offers mercy and mercy is spurned, then there's nothing left but judgment. And you've judged yourself by rejecting Him. Don't reject Him any more.

L-49 Let us pray. As the minutes are passing, Lord, and our hearts are beating, every time they beat, it's one less beat that it'll ever make. We're facing a great, dark place out here called death. Each one of us, we don't know just when this heart will stop. We don't know what time that a missile may come whirling through the air. It's too late.
Every speck of petroleum, and moisture, and what all that's in us will be taken away; but we have one blessed assurance. They never have, they never will be able to make a bomb that can touch that soul. It's immortal; it's a part of God. I'm so happy tonight, Lord, because that that is possible.


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