<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>58-0323, Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, Middletown High School, Middletown, OH, 97 min
L-1 ...?... To you, up here to fellowship with our different gifts and peculiarities as we worship Christ... I'm trusting to God that this will be a mighty and a great meeting, and I believe it will. It can be, God is willing for it to be, if we're willing to make an effort for it to be. We must put our shoulders together. We must put our, not only our shoulders together, but our hearts together. And we must worship, and--and pray, and call our neighbors, and get the sick and the afflicted out here, and talk among each other, have prayer meetings around in our neighborhood, get everyone here we can. Don't be discouraged. We're living in a terrible hour, terrible hour for the unbeliever, but a wonderful hour for the believer, for we're near the end time to which we're looking for the coming of the blessed Lord. That's why we're here, 'deeming the time because we know we have not much time left.

L-2 Now, tonight usually we... This is kind of a get acquainted night. We get to meet each other, and shake each other's hands, or so forth, and you usually come out. We say, "Well, we'll..." I've never seen you and, perhaps, you've never seen me, many here. And it's our first time to just kinda get acquainted. So we have a regular little routine that we go through on the first night to kinda introduce the--the meeting, what it means. And the way we conduct oursel--our meetings. And that way then you'll know; you'll have some idea of--of what our peculiarities are.

L-3 Now, the first thing, we're not here to represent a certain denomination. We're here to represent a cause, and that cause is Christ. We're here for His glory. We have no denominational barriers. We do not want any of those. We want to represent every church that stands for the Lord Jesus. We love everyone.
And myself, I was--belonged to the Missionary Baptist church. Dr. Vayle here, my associate, he's the pastor of the First Baptist church here in Ohio, at Spencerville. But we're neither one Baptists. We're Pentecostal Baptists. We're Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness. Whatevermore your church represents, all that it represents in Christ, that's what we represent to you: brothers. And we are here to help you to make this a, as Brother E. Howard Cadle used to say, "A community in which it's easier to do right, harder to do wrong." That's why we're here.
It's been said that a Divine healing, or Divine healer... I'm not no Divine healer. I don't believe there is such a thing. I believe the Divine Healer is God. I believe that we're His subjects of His Kingdom. Our faith together brings down His blessings that Jesus Christ His Son died that we might have.

L-4 I do not believe that there's any man on earth that has power to heal anybody. I don't believe there's a medicine on earth that has power to heal anyone. I don't believe there's an honest doctor that would ever tell you that his medicine would heal you. If he does, he certainly is wrong. There's only one healing; that's God.
Our foundation is the Bible. We believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of the living God. And we believe that everything that's done must come from the Bible. All teaching must be based on the Bible.
Now, in the Old Testament they had a way of knowing whether a prophet or a dreamer spoke the truth; that was, they had the Urim Thummim. Many of you ministers and you Sunday school teachers know of it. When a dreamer dreamed a dream, or a prophet prophesied, they taken them to the temple, and there was the breastplate that went over Aaron's breast. And in there was the birthstones of each head of the tribe of the twelve tribes of Israel.


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