<TITLE>08. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 Oh, we could stay hours at the subject, but let's come to the spot. The only right way... If I should say to all the Baptists here tonight, "Do you believe that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever?"...
"Yes."
Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals, all the different churches would say, "Yes, we believe it."
Then I'm going to ask you a question like this, "If He is the same, then why can't we see Him the same?"
Now, that's a great statement to make. But I'm not making it, otherwise then God's Word said so. I'm just saying what He said. It's not up to me to prove it; it's up to Him to keep His Word. It's up to Him; it lays it in His lap, and not in our lap.
Now, I wish you would notice a minute: The only real way that we can believe it, is to go back to His life and find out what He was yesterday, and then we'll see what He is today. And if He isn't the same today that He was yesterday, then He isn't the same.

L-25 Now, we know in the beginning when He came on earth, the people were looking for a Messiah. But thousands of them did not know the nature of this Messiah, because they never studied the Word. They studied it in the line of their creed, or of their denomination, or of their sect; they studied it according to that, but not according to the way God said it.
For if you'll notice, God told Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15 that "The Lord, your God, shall raise up a prophet among you, likened unto me. And it would come to pass, that whosoever would not hear this prophet, would be cut off from the people."
The real believers were looking for a God-prophet to come. Now, let's go back; I believe we read out of Saint John. Anywhere in the Scriptures would be all right, but we're studying the book of Saint John now. We begin at the 12th chapter. Let's go back to the beginning of Saint John and study for a moment. We know He's...
We just passed through the holidays about His birth and so forth, how He came. Now, He enters His ministry in Saint John 1. After the--His water baptism to fulfill all righteousness...
Not that He had to be baptized, because He was born the Son of God. Then I want to ask you something: If goodness is all you need, a good clean life, why did Jesus have to go to Jordan to be baptized in water and receive the Holy Ghost? When He... Everything about Him was godly: conceived in the womb of a virgin, but yet had to go to Jordan and be baptized. And John bare record, seeing the Spirit of God like a Dove, descending. The voice saying, "This is My beloved Son..." It behooved Him to fulfill all righteousness.
I'm not yelling at you. I know this a little room, but I been used to speaking out doors much.

L-26 Notice, the first thing He did after His temptation in the wilderness, He came forth as the anointed Messiah, the Messiah, the Christ. "Christ" means "The Anointed One." He was born "Jesus" the man, but when the Holy Ghost came into Him, He was the anointed Messiah. The Bible said, "God was in Christ, reconciling Himself to the world." God, living in Him, the Fullness of the Godhead was in Him. "God poured all He was into Christ; Christ poured all He was into the Church."
On the day of Pentecost when they were assembled together, when that Pillar of Fire came down, It divided with cloven tongues and set upon each of them, showing that God was dividing Himself among His people. That's the reason I stand the way I do today between the churches; we've got to come together. The more we are together, the more God there is present. Not as I'm against the denominations or so forth, no; but don't, a barrier, a fence. We're all children of God by the new birth.


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