<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 What is it? It's Jesus. Now, if you wanted to see Him, and you raised your hand, that you wanted to see Him... Now, there could be any kind of a false impersonation come in, with a little white robe on, and maybe a little spindly man as Jesus was, and put some nail scars in his hands and deceive you, in that manner. That Person will never come until the rapture of the Church, in that corporal body. For when He comes, every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, when He comes.
But He is here in the person of the Holy Spirit. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit. Saint John 15. The vine cannot bear fruit; it's the branches that bears fruit, as it's energized from the vine. And Christ is our energy. But your lips is His lips when you're energized. Your hands is His hands when you're energized from the vine. Christ is the Life Vine of His Church. And each member is the branch of His Church.

L-18 Now, if we wanted to be sure that we were right, how would we know that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? How would we know when we seen Him? Now, if we was talking physically, would... Let's just take it physically for a few moments. Would we go to find a man that was real nattily dressed? No, sir, He wasn't. Would we find a man that like some great bishop? No, sir. He did not have much dealings with such people. He would've had it, if they would've had Him. But if it's the same yesterday, today, and forever, they rejected Him then; they'll reject Him now.
God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The Spirit of Elijah-- Elijah came on Elisha. Several hundred years later it came on John the Baptist and made him act just like Elisha.
The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. So the spirit of antichrist is not communism; it's a religious spirit. Jesus warned us of that in Matthew 24. The two spirits would be so close together, till it would deceive the very elect in the last days, if it was possible.

L-19 Now, notice, what type of person would we find? Someone that used great eloquent speech? His speech was so common until the Bible said, "The common people heard Him gladly." The Bible was written in such common language till the translators are all turned around today by it.
Now, in America, we're supposed to speak English. But if I ever needed an interpreter, it was when I was in London. I could not understand that cockney speech; I--I just couldn't do it. It sound like way down in their chest somewhere, they were speaking. And to show you the difference, I called from Miami, Florida, to New York one night, to pray for a sick man, and there was such a difference between the little operator at New York and the one at Miami, the little southern girl, till they had to get a girl in St. Louis to interpret for both. That's in the U.S.A.
So the Bible was written in ordinary language, and the translators are trying to get it up in some great high bracket; and therefore, they can't get the meaning. God did that purposely. He said, "I have hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to babes such as will learn." God did it purposely. Don't worry; God's great time wheels are moving just perfectly in order. It's not God out of order, it's you and I out of order, is what does it.


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