<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>61-0118, Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, American Legion Hall, Beaumont, TX, 110 min
L-1 How do you do? You may be seated. This certainly is a privilege to be back again tonight in Beaumont, Texas. Ever since I was here the first time, I've always longed to get back again to minister and have fellowship around the Word of God with you dear people again. You never left my heart. I can remember many great things that happened the last time I was here in Beaumont. So I believe it's been about twelve years ago, about.
I remember there was... the people... We'd just had a great meeting over at Houston, and then I... Or did I go from here to Houston? Here... from Houston here. And that's where the Angel of the Lord came down, and they took a picture of It. And then it's just... I think they got about six or eight pictures of that since then, you know, different places: three in Germany just recently. They got one in color, Kodachrome color, up at the--somewhere at a fairgrounds in California, Lakeport, California, where the Christian Business Men had... It's really a beautiful picture of His Presence, that amber fire burning around.

L-2 This one, of course, was taken with the black and white, and it just shows It as white. But It really is an amber Light. And as I always said since, like one of these little lads here, it was a--I said a greenish yellow. I didn't know what amber was, so I just said a greenish yellow.

L-3 When I heard the other day the boys was--was praying and--about which way to go when we started out the first of the year, and the first place fell on my heart was Beaumont, Texas. I said, "Have you got any contacts?"
He said, "Several."
I said, "Start calling them then. We'll start from there and just see where the Lord will lead us." This is our first meeting after the--the first of the year.

L-4 Awhile ago I was told by my son... And we came down with Brother Jack Moore's daughter from the hotel, or motel, rather. They were talking, and I believe Billy told me that the brother, the pastor of this church (I'd never met him, 'less that's him I shook hands with right here), that had been praying for years to come back to Beaumont. Oh, I--I'll never know how to appreciate loyal friends like that till we cross the river sometime: a man that believes that much in a ministry that the Lord Jesus gave me. No wonder I couldn't think of anything else but Beaumont this time. Prayer changes things. Yes.
And I heard that there was another brother that joined with him in prayer that's gone on to glory. Billy was telling me about it a few moments ago, as Jack and I and he come down from the hotel. Well, no doubt tonight in a better land than what this is, he must know about it. I--I believe that--that when a man dies he just...

L-5 Death means separation. He only separates from our seeing, but he's always alive. "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent me has Everlasting Life, and shall never come into condemnation but's passed from death unto Life." Oh, I--I believe that.
We can't die: got Eternal Life. Eternal, anything's eternal never had a beginning or an end. So that's God's Own Life. Eternal Life comes from the Greek word there, "Zoe" which means "God's Own Life" is in us. And when we come sons and daughters of God, then we live just as God lives: can no more die than He can die, so we're part of Him. Aren't you glad to be sons and daughters of God? What a wonderful thing.


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