<TITLE>09. Par 35-39</TITLE>L-35 Then there's only one way to answer that question. That's take Hebrews 13:8, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Someone would say, "I see Him in a rosary as I pray the rosary."
One would say, "I see Him in our creeds of our church."
Others would say, "I see Him when we sing the doxology."
One would say, "I see Him as we quote the apostle's creed," or repeat it, rather.
Others would say, "I see Him when I see the saints rejoicing."
Others would say, "I hear Him in the music."
Which all those things are good. And I have nothing against any of them. And I'm thankful that you can see God in such. But let's lay that aside just for a minute and take what the Scripture says. That's the Urim Thummim again. If Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to be the same in principle. He's got to be the same in power. He's got to be the same in attitude. He's got to be the same in every way that He was.

L-36 They never knew Him that day in saying a rosary. They knew Him that day in a, what we call an apostle's creed. It's not in the Scriptures, the apostle's creed. It's not... They didn't know Him in the doxology. But they know Him as the Person, God manifested in the flesh, in His mighty works, and His deeds, and His manifestation. Then we'd have to go back and see what His manifestations was.
Now, do not listen with any selfish motive. Let your objective be right. Let your motive be right. For anything outside of the right motive and the right objection, God can't use it. Jesus said once, "If you say to this tree--if you say to it--to this mountain rather, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt, but believe that what you've said is being done, you can have what you said." What could move a mountain?

L-37 Here He told a mortal man, "Say to the mountain and believe that it's being done." Only Deity can move a mountain. Only God can do it. Then if He told a man could--could do it, it would have to be God speaking through the man. And the only way a man could know it was God, would be the right objective, or, and the right motive.
If your objective is right and your motive is right, then it's not you speaking any more. It's the Father that dwelleth in you. "Take no thought what ye shall say in that hour; for it's not ye that speaks; it's My Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking."

L-38 So you see, God's not wer--very far away. He's right here. It's our own selves in the way; it's our unbelief. It's our superstitions. It's those things that blinds the eyes. It isn't God. A man walk out and say, "I'll show you I can move the mountain. 'Mountain be moved.'" It doesn't happen. Certainly not. Your motive's not right, and your objective's not right. So we've got to come to this one place. Is our motive and our objective being right with God? Then it isn't you that speak any more.

L-39 Now, let's find what Jesus was. We find Him immediately after His baptism. He was led into the wilderness where He communed with God for forty days. Coming out before His ministry ever had a chance to be manifested, the devil said, "Now, if you're a great performer of miracles, let's see you perform one here before me. Do something here that I can see with my own eyes. Then I'll believe you. Turn these stones into bread."
He could've done that. But you know, the devil still has the same kind of motives and objectives. "An old man down at the corner that's blind, or he's deaf, he's in a wheelchair. Let these Divine healers go down there and heal him. Then I'll believe."
When you sees or hear of such things being said, just remember it's the same devil that put a rag around the eyes of the Lord Jesus and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "Prophesier, tell us who hit you." It's the same one that said, "If thou be the Christ, come off of the cross. Just pull your hands loose. Turn these stones to bread. The spectacular, do something that I'd see You do it." They'll never see it done. There's nothing in them to see with. They're blind.


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