<TITLE>05. Par 14-18</TITLE>L-14 Now, to read His blessed holy Word, just to talk to you a few moments, and pray for the sick, and try to make this a night of getting together and getting acquainted. And if you'll just put all that you have in it in prayer and backing up, well, then we'll... I believe the Lord will heal all the sick and the afflicted and we'll just have a wonderful meeting.
In the word of Saint John the 12th chapter and the 20th verse, a little familiar text.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
And then for a text, the regular campaign theme is Hebrews 13:8: "Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever." And now, upon this Word I would like to talk to you just a few moments.
It's a most unusual thing to think that someone or the world would question the words of the Creator, but it's--it's because it's dominated by unbelief and spirits of enemy which make them to disbelieve.

L-15 I don't believe that anyone ever heard that precious Name of Jesus but what longed to see Him. I have had the privilege of preaching in many foreign nations, and great crowds of people come out to hear the Gospel. But I've never seen anyone in my life, that ever heard of Jesus but what longed to see Him.
There's just something about human beings that, seem like the old Missouri slogan, "Seeing is believing." And we rely so much upon the sense of sight. As five sense control the body, and a sense of sight is the gate to the soul.
It's too bad the Protestant people don't know that. The Catholic caught it long ago, of little statues and monuments and so forth, of saints. But the eye, the gate to the soul...

L-16 And these Greeks had heard something about Him, and they came to find out Who He was and what He was. And they said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Now, they didn't desire to see His works. They only desired to see Jesus.
And then, if Hebrews 13:8 (not if), but it is true: the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's seemingly then, that we would be able to see Him today just like they did then, if He's the same.
Now, if the Bible says that, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever," then He's got to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in action, the same in motive and objective. He's got to be the same in every way, only a corporal body.

L-17 Now, the corporal body was a dwelling place of God. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And this body was put to death at Calvary for an atonement. There's where He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed.
And God lifted that body up on the third day, alive again, and it sets at His right hand tonight in glory to make intercessions upon our, or upon our confession. He is our High Priest. He is to make, to intercede for us where we make a confession.
And anything that He did in His all-sufficient sacrifice at Calvary, anything that He did there in the atonement, He bought the price for us to accept it by faith and to ask; and He's before the Father to make intercessions up--upon what we confess that He has done.

L-18 Now, confess means, "Say the same thing." If the Bible said, "By his stripes we were healed," to confess it, is to confess the same thing. "By His stripes I was healed. By His stripes I am healed. He was wounded for our transgressions; with his stripes we were healed."
Now, in that corporal body, after He sets right... The Holy Spirit was sent back to the earth to--the Spirit of Christ, to dwell in the Church. Do you believe that? We are--we are Christ's Church. How do we get into the church? Not by denomination, not by any other way, but by spiritual baptism: I Corinthians 12. By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body. Not by water baptism, but by spiritual baptism we're inducted into the body of Christ by spiritual baptism, and become members of His body.


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