<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 And I think today we come to the Church to find Jesus, and we find our programs in the stead of the Spirit of Christ. See? If we went to a peach orchard, we'd expect to find peaches, went to an apple orchard, we'd want apples. And we'd be strange to find pumpkins growing on an apple tree. But that's just about how we get it today. We say, "Well, our--our--our theology is this; we've been taught to believe this."
But this is what's truth: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then His Spirit in the Church moves with His Church, His same Spirit, doing the same works, bringing Jesus to the world now, just as He brought It in the form of--bringing Christ to the world just as He did in the Son, Christ Jesus.

L-18 Now, we know God does not change. We want to always remember this: that we are finite, and He's infinite. Now, if God ever makes a decision, every called to make a decision, and God's decision, being He's infinite, He has to continually stay with that decision. See, I can make you a promise, and tomorrow I can say, "I was wrong." See, I'll say, "I was mistaken. I didn't mean to say that. I see different now." But God cannot, because He's perfect. He--He knows all things. And His decisions...
If a sinner ever came to Him on bending knees and asked for mercy, and God, upon a--a certain merit gave that man pardoning of his sin, the next man has to receive the same. Or if He did not save the second man, then He did wrong when He saved the first man. And if a--a man that's sick ever comes to God and meets the requirements of God...

L-19 Now, sometimes when we meet the requirement, we think about, well, it's... Why didn't He answer? God does sometime that way upon our action to see what our reaction will be. See? Sometimes... Look at the--the Shunammite woman for instance. See, He wanted to see what her reaction would be. And He does that many times, just to see how we'll react. But if we're certain that we have met God's requirement, just stay right with it; He's got to act. You hear it? He's got to act. If He made the promise, He's God and has to keep that promise. He's God. He just can't take it back, and say, "Well, I was mistaken." God makes no mistakes. He's perfect. All right.
Now, when God led the children of Israel in the form of the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the covenant, then that same Angel was made flesh and dwelled among us... Jesus said, "I came from God, and I go to God."

L-20 Well now, we find out when It was here on earth, the way It behaved Itself, that Holy Spirit that was in the wilderness with the children of Israel. Now, when we know It was the Pillar of Fire. Moses met Him at the bush, and the bush was on fire. Then the Pillar of Fire led the children of Israel. And He met him there in the Name of I AM.
When He was manifested in flesh, He was still, "Before Abraham was, I AM. A little while and the world sees Me no more. (He's going away.) I come from God; I go to God." And then after His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, Paul was on his road down to Damascus one day--or Saul, rather, and all of a sudden there was a Light shown around him that blinded him, and a Voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou Me?"
He said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus. I came from God, and I go back to God." That was the Spirit in Jesus speaking out, God, in Christ, manifested.


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