<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 And I just wonder if that isn't the condition of the Church tonight? That God... You are Christian people; you are people who profess to know the Lord Jesus. And He's shook every kind of a gift before you. And this United States of America is supposed to be a Christian nation. And great men has crossed this nation, Billy Graham, and Oral Roberts, and A. A. Allen, and many great ministers with great gifts, and they shook it before their eyes, and they set like they are paralyzed, spiritually paralyzed. I wonder what God thinks about His children, when He can show them His Divine Presence, and they'll still say, "Well, I will wait till Brother Allen comes by, or Brother Roberts, or Brother Branham."
Don't wait for them to come by; they're men. Jesus is here now, showing Himself before you as a living God. And the Church has become just staring out, "Why, we believe, oh, yes, we believe." But it's become so common to the people. Now, I don't have time to speak to you much. But the Bible's saying He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He--He has to be the same.

L-17 And now I believe I said last evening, that when God makes a decision, it's forever a decision. He cannot change. And the way... If I said, if a sinner would come to God and repent of his sins, and God forgave the sinner, the second sinner comes, God has to do the same thing, or He did wrong when He saved the first sinner. Then if Christ manifested Himself in the closing of the Jewish dispensation... (Now, listen close.) The way He did when He manifested Himself to the Jews, because they were looking for Him to come and failed to recognize Him... Is that true?
Now, the Gentiles was not looking for Him to come; we were heathens in those days, worshipping idols. But at the close of the dispensation of the Jews, when they had rejected Him, the way He manifested Himself at the close of the Jewish dispensation, He will have to do the same thing at the closing of the Gentile dispensation, or He did wrong for manifesting Himself the way He did in His power at the close of the Jews, and would not do it at the Gentiles. You understand clearly?

L-18 Now, the prophet said, "There will be a day that it won't be neither night nor day, but in the evening it shall be light." Now, what have we had? The sun, geographically, rises in the east; civilization rose in the east, and it's traveled westward. And now, it's at the west coast. The east and the west has met. I preached on that sometime in my evangelistic services, of the east and west meeting.
Well now, notice, the same sun that rises in the east is the same sun that sets in the west. And we've had two thousand years of Bible teaching, churches, which is all right. We've had a little light, it hasn't been completely daylight, because it's be a dismal day, like a foggy day. We've had enough light to believe He's the Son of God, to accept Him as personal Saviour, build churches, make organizations. But that wasn't the way it shined in the beginning.
But it's evening time, and the Light is setting on the western people. The eastern people were the Jews; the western people are the Gentiles. And the same Son, not another Son, the same Son of God Who raised from the dead is dealing with the Gentile people today in the same way He did with the Jews, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost manifesting Himself through His Church, not another, the same.


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