<TITLE>09. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 If the Christian church is the vine, or the branch that's in Christ, they'll do the works of Christ and bear the Life of Christ. "By their fruits you shall know them."
Now, then the way that He is today, He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit, working through His Church, performing the same things that He did there. That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.
His Life, the Life that was in Christ, which was God, produced the kind of a life that He lived then, that same Life comes into His churches, His church members, since they have been purged by His Blood and given the Holy Spirit access to work through them, bears the same fruit that He bore. So therefore, the world can see then that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-32 Now, if I say to you Methodists, "What do you think about that?"
You'd say, "That's true." In Jude we're...?... for every...?... to contend. But he said, "I earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints." The Baptists think they're contending for that faith. The Pentecost thinks they're contending for that faith. The Nazarenes think they're contending for that faith. And I believe it. I certainly believe it.
But now, let's go right down to the Bible now and find out. Now, if we can find what Jesus was yesterday, then He's got to be the same now and forever, or the Scripture's wrong. Now, does that sound reasonable? If we can see what He was when He was here on earth in a body, corporal body, then we can see what He would be in His body, the Church, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-33 Now, I've read tonight out of Saint John. Now... Let's go back in the Bible to Saint John 1, and just read a few moments. And let's see what He was yesterday. Now, if we went to look for Jesus as these Greeks did...
Now, He wasn't a great forceful speaker. The Scripture says that His voice was not heard in the streets and so forth. And John was a forceful speaker. John went forth as a preacher, really preaching but doing no miracles. Christ come behind not doing much preaching--preaching, but great miracles.
And anyone that's got any spirituality can see today that that same Spirit did the miracles. Think of our Brother Billy Graham, going forth like John, no--no miracles, just preaching, stirring the people.

L-34 Now, notice. Now, when Jesus, after He was baptized and went out of the water, and the Holy Spirit came on Him, and the powers of heavens and earth was given into His hands, we find Him in His fast in the wilderness, and then coming out, and immediately He begin His earthly ministry.
And then there was a man. Now, we're in Saint John when you go home tonight or tomorrow, you women, you read that Saint, that book of Saint John while the revival's going on. Notice, and compare it Scripture by Scripture of Jesus.
Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and will manifest Himself the same yesterday, today, and forever, how many would like to see Him? Let's just see your hands while you're... "I'd love to see Jesus." Oh, if the Scripture says we can see Him, then why can't we see Him? If that promise was made to us, then we've got a right to claim that promise.
And if God will keep that promise, He will keep every promise He ever made. Certainly He will. Many--many of you here tonight are Christians. God's kept His promise, when you believe Him, He saved you. Many of you have the baptism of the Spirit. And then when you believe that, maybe in the face of difficult, but you see the Scripture promised it, you received it, because you believed it.


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