<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Now, the first thing is: Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? Do you believe that, solemnly? Is He the same in principle, the same in power, the--the same power that He once had, the same compassion? If He was here, which He is today, would He act just exactly like He did when He was here before?
Or, do you think after two thousand years He's got a little wiser, and a little smarter, and knows how to make a church different? And He'd kind of have to apologize on what He did on--on the Pentecostal church first, so He just makes Him a different Pentecostal church for the last age? Would that be His idea?
Not if He's the same. He'd have the same ideas. And He was God, so He can't change. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." So He'd have the same ideas, and the same principles, the same power, and the same church. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-23 Now, one day there was some people who had never seen Him staggered in to the meeting, or up to worship at Pentecost. They'd heard about Him. So they came to one of His servants and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." And by asking this servant, this servant produced Jesus for them.
Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever; and you've got up your hands that you'd like to see Him, then why can't we see Him? That's the question. Can't we see Him? If He is the same, then why can't we see Him?
You raised your hands like those Greeks. You'd like to see Him. I raised my hand. I'd like to see Him. And He promised that He would be with us and never forsake us. "I'm with you always, even to the end of the consummation." He's always here, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then what's the matter? Why can't we see Him?

L-24 Now, if He will come into our midst tonight... Now, if you're a stranger you might not understand this, but I want you just to pull the sideboards down, and set still for the--for the rest of the meeting, and listen close to these words, promises I'm going to read to you, wrote out here on this paper, out of the Bible. And I--I want to read you some promises and find out whether He's still alive or not, to see if our Christian religion is the true religion, and if our Pentecostal conception of it is true, or whether it's wrong.
Even I believe in... Now, even in all its error, I still choose it to be the church, now, not because that they're Pentecostal. Pentecost is not an organization. Now, you Baptists and Methodists remember that, Catholics and Presbyterian. You can't organize God. You don't organize God. Pentecost is an experience that Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Catholics, and all receive.

L-25 Now, I've always said: If a man's a Catholic, and he's depending on the Catholic church for salvation, he's lost. And if he's a Baptist and depending on the Baptist church for salvation, he's lost. If he's Pentecostal and depending on the Pentecostal church for salvation, he's lost.
But if he's a Catholic and depending on Jesus Christ, he's saved by faith, his own faith. If he's a Baptist, or Pentecostal, and looking to Jesus Christ for salvation... For it's by faith are you saved, and that through grace of God. That's right. Your personal faith in Jesus Christ is what saves you.


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