<TITLE>07. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 To justify our statement of Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever; if I should go tonight to some of our fine denominations such as the Presbyterian, or the Methodist, Baptist, or the Church of God, or Pentecostals, or whatever, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness; I'd say to them, "Do you believe that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever?"
"Sure."
"Well, is He the same in every way except His corporal body?" Well, there would be a question.
They would say, "Yes, of course."
But if Christ is the same, He's got to be manifesting Himself just like He did. For He said, "The works that I do, shall you also. More than this shall you do, for I go to the Father. A little while and the world will see Me no more (The world, kosmos, which means the world order, the unbeliever), will see me no more." But listen to this glorious promise, "yet ye shall see Me, for I (and I is a personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." "Ye shall see Me." That's His Divine promise.

L-27 Now, let's go back to justify, and see what He was yesterday, and the way that He made Hisself known to the people yesterday. Then if He manifested Himself in a certain manner, then He is obligated to do the same thing today: obligated to His Word. And if we see it the way He did, if it was building great schools, if it was building great seminaries, if it was building great churches, if it was educating His people in mathematics, and--and in the grammar... But the way that He made Himself known yesterday, and He's the same today, He would have to declare Himself in the same manner.

L-28 Now notice. Let's preview His life just for a few moments, so that we'll see. Now remember, every time there's a reformation or a--a ministry that goes forth, it cannot be received just in a moment. His was not. The prophets were not. Luther was not. Wesley was not. Calvin was not, and many of the others we could call. But after a while, when they began to see that it's Scriptural... Now there is no other foundation but this Foundation: God's eternal Word.

L-29 Now, in the Old Testament they had a way of finding out whether a prophet, or a seer, or dreamer was telling the truth. Now, the clergy here behind me would know this. Maybe some of you laity wouldn't. But in the Bible they had (under the Aaronic priesthood) what was called Urim-Thummim. It was the breastplate that Aaron had with the twelve tribes and the twelve stones, birthstones, of the twelve tribes of Israel, they'd hung in the temple. And if they doubted a prophet, they taken him to this Urim-Thummim, and let him prophesy, or a dreamer tell his dream. No matter how real it seemed, if a sacred light didn't flash over that Urim-Thummim, they rejected it. But if the sacred light flashed over that Urim-Thummim, then it was received, because God, through the supernatural, was speaking back, that He had accepted that, that it was the truth.

L-30 Oh, I hope this little audience tonight understands this. But God always manifests Himself in supernatural, but always according to His Word, for He is supernatural. And in that, all ages it's been the supernatural manifestation of His Word.
Now, when the Aaronic priesthood ceased, that Urim-Thummim was taken away. But God's got another Urim-Thummim today, and that's His Word. And if a dreamer dreams a dream, or a prophet prophesies, and it's not according to the Word, it's wrong. Let it seem ever so good, it's wrong. It must be THUS SAITH THE LORD from the Scriptures, for that's the Foundation. Now, it may not be THUS SAITH THE LORD according to your theology.
When Jesus came, and the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the great teachers, they condemned Him on the spot, and said He was a devil. He was contrary to their theology, but He was straight with the Scriptures. And we know that. And it's the same today. It is always the same.


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