<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 So we see, any religion could produce psychology, and could produce philosophy, but the Bible says that Christ rose again, and He's alive for evermore. It isn't a philosophy, and yet it is. But it's a philosophy, and the only one, and the only religion, that can be proven to be the truth. So you have nothing to worry about, and all should rejoice because our God lives, just the same today as He ever lived. All of His powers and things is just as sufficient, and just as willingly given as it ever was. Oh, that should make us extremely happy to know that. And now, if He has rose again from the dead... I say that "if," not to be sacrilegious, but just for a point. If He has risen from the dead, and is alive, the Bible declares Him to be the same, yesterday, today, and forever. And then, if He is the same, He is the same in principle, the same in power, the same in manifestation.

L-25 The only way He'd be any different, would be a corporal body. And His corporal body is at the right-hand of the--the Father's throne, making intercessions upon our confession. And anything that He died for, any attribute that His atonement called for, it's our--it's our personal property, of every believer to accept it, and confess it as a finished work, and receive it. How great Thou art. How great Thou art.
And it seems to be in the Christian church today, that the greatest hindrance that the Christian church has is a fear, just a try at. Now, Christianity is not a try at, it's a know so. It's something that is real.

L-26 Now, in... Before our blessed Saviour left the world, He said in Saint John 15, I believe, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit; the branches bears fruit. But the branch cannot bear fruit, unless it's in the vine. Now, as you know the--the vine then, by the kind of fruit it bears.
If we call ourselves Christians today and do not bear the works of our Lord Jesus, which He said in Saint John 14:7, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he also."... And then, if this church doesn't bear the fruit of--of the vine, and the same fruit of the same vine, then we would be connected into another vine. Like a wild gourd, that was in the days of Elijah.

L-27 Now, we could organize church--good. We can organize deacon boards--fine. We can build fine churches--wonderful. We can have good scholarly men and women--wonderful. But that's still isn't what He said. He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel." And the gospel, Paul said, did not come in word only, but through power and the manifestation, or the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, as a live resurrected God moving among the members of His body.
Now, if it's a pumpkin vine, it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon vine, it'll have watermelons. If it's a grape vine, it'll have grapes. And if it's a Christian vine, Christ in the church, he will energize His branches, that's in Him, to bear the fruits that He did when He was here on earth. That declares Him then, to be the same, yesterday, today, and forever.


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