<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 Now, I want to ask you in the audience tonight, would that not be the fair thing for Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, and Protestant and whatmore, keep on saying, "My church believes it this way." "My church believes it this way." Which is perfectly all right. But if you really want to see what He was yesterday, so you'll know what He is today, you should go back through the Scripture and see what He was yesterday. Then we won't have the church's word, we have God's own Word about it.
Now, what He was yesterday, He has to remain the same today, or He isn't the same yesterday and today. Now, in His promise He said, "The works that I do shall you do also, more than this shall you do," I know the King James here says "greater," but you get the right translation on it...?... it's saying "more." No, one could do greater; He stopped nature, raised the dead, healed the sick, done everything. You cannot do any greater, but God, the Holy Spirit could be in the Church universal, all around the world at one time. Just like all of the ocean's water. Like the...

L-17 God gave Jesus His Spirit without measure. In Him dwelled the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He was God manifested in the flesh. The Bible said, "That God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." But when He give out His Spirit to we adopted sons, He gives us a bucket-full out of that ocean. He had all the Fullness of the Godhead; we just have a portion of it as a gift of the Holy Spirit.
But if I took one bucket-full of water out of the ocean, or even a teaspoonful of it, out of the ocean, the same chemicals that's in the entire ocean, would be in that spoonful. Be just less in quantity, not less in quality. So the same Holy Spirit that was in Christ is in His Church.

L-18 Now, this is to strengthen that for you. He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the--the vine does not bear fruit. The vine only purges the branch and the branch bears fruit. Therefore, the only way Jesus could speak tonight, would be through my lips or your lips, my hands or your hands, my life or your life. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." He doesn't bear fruit any more, He just purges His Church and it bears fruit.
Now, what kind of a fruit would it bear? If the life that was in Him is in His Church, it'll bear the same kind of Life that He bore when He was here. Do you understand?
Notice, if you went to a grape vine, you'd expect to find grapes. And down south, I don't know whether you have it here, we have pumpkins down there. And you go to a pumpkin vine, you expect to get pumpkins, if it's a good fertile vine. Watermelons, you'd get watermelons off of a watermelon vine.

L-19 And if we come to the Vine, Christ, His Church, what do we find? Fussing, feeling, arguments over theology, hatred, malice, strife. And we call that the works of God. The Scripture says that is not so. "This will all men when You're My disciples, when you've got love one for the other." The love of God in His Church, making every member a part of Him, then upon that love and that foundation, you build your church.
Notice, now lest to take too much of your time, hours could be spent on that, showing what He's promised. But now the subject is: Is He the same today that He was then? Is He's the same in every way, only a corporeal body. Now, when His Body came, then we will go home with Him.
But His Body has been raised up and set on the throne of God tonight to make intercessions on our confession. He is a Priest, High Priest of our confession, Hebrews 3:1. Then He's setting there as a High Priest. And may I say this Church, no other mediator between God and man, but Jesus Christ, the Scripture says so. And He is the only One that stands between God and man to make intercession. And the Scripture says that He is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.


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