<TITLE>04. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 So now, my ministry... Perhaps there's many in here that's never been in one of our healing services. My ministry is not to touch people, but to get people to realize that Jesus Christ is omnipresent, that He's here now. The very One that give the promise is present now. And if He Who is alive after nineteen hundred years, is present now, He certainly knows how to keep His Word. And He will keep His Word if you'll believe It.
Now, we're going to approach the subject, just for a few moments in a little ritualistic way, to try to show you that the things that we're teaching is not some mythical make-up, or some mysterious something; it's something that God promised in the Bible. Now, let us read some of His Word, and as a opening message to the people, I want to read from Saint John 12:20, and from Hebrews 13:8. And here's the way it reads:
 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
And in Hebrews 13:8 it's written:
 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.

L-11 Now, I would like to ask this question. And I'll be just as briefly as possible. My wife told me last night there was such a rebound, till you couldn't hear it. I just wonder if you can hear back in the back pretty good like this. If you can, raise up your hand? Up in the balconies, raise up your hands if you can hear. That's good, fine.
Now, God help us to approach this sanely, reverently, and Scripturally. Now, the Scripture says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." Do you believe that to be the truth? If it is the truth, then He has to be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-12 And these Greeks asked the question, when they come up to the feast; they said to Philip, a preacher, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Not see His works, not see His--His power to heal, we just want to see Jesus. And I think that would well express the feeling of every person here tonight, "We would see Jesus."
And if the Bible said that they, them Greeks got their desire, because they were taken to Him and saw Him... Then if He is the same, and our desires are the same as theirs were, then why can't we see Jesus? Now, that sounds fanatically, but I'm only quoting what the Word says. And if God doesn't keep His Word, then it's not God's Word.
Now, you mustn't take the Bible lightly, and saying, "It's a historical book and the times of miracles is past." What good does it do to try to--to get a person warm by a painted fire. If a man's freezing to death, and you give him a painted fire to get warm by, he cannot get warm by a painted fire; he's got to have fire to get warm by. What good is a historical God, if He isn't the same God today? What good is a God of Moses if He isn't the same today? What good is a God that walked Galilee, and healed the sick, and done the great miracles, if He isn't the same God today? What good is a God of Pentecost, if He isn't the same God today? What good would it do you to feed your canary bird vitamin A and B to make good strong wings and don't never let him fly? See, he's-- he's got to be a God of present tense if He's God at all. For His promise are thus.


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