<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 But there's only one thing to do. There's got to be something right and something wrong. It's exactly true. You can't get wrong and right at the same time. We have a bogus dollar because it was made off of a real dollar.
Now, what--what is the difference? How would we know then? The Catholic church would say, "We're the oldest organization."
Pentecost would say, "Why, we begin back there before the organization."
All right, we'll just go on all this. The Baptist said, "We started from John. He was the first Baptist, even before Jesus came on the scene."
Well, you'd have all kinds of arguments. But let's take it down and find out.

L-31 Now, what if we go downtown to look for Jesus, that He's the same? We'd see a man come along with a robe on like He wore, and the psychological thought of it that He had long hair... We have no record of that, that He ever had long hair. We don't know. But say that we did--we did see a man that looked like the artist's picture that painted of Jesus. And He had scars in his hands, scars in his feet, and--and thorn marks, and so forth, and looked like maybe the Hofmann's picture of Him, the "Head at Thirty-three," or maybe some of the other ones, like the inspirational, or--or some picture...
That still couldn't be Jesus, because I'll tell you why. Because no man will see Jesus on earth in a physical body until first He goes to glory; because we'll be caught up to meet Him in the air. That's right. For He said in the last days, there'd be false Christs, and everything saying, "Lo, He's in the desert, and in the secret chamber. Believe it not."

L-32 But He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit that was in Christ will do the same things that He did, because it's the same Life. If you put the life of a--of a grapevine in a cucumber vine, it would bear grapes. If you put the life of a peach tree in a--in a sycamore, it would bear peaches. See? Exactly. Because it's the life that's in it produces. And the Life that's in the church of Jesus Christ will bear the works and marks of Jesus Christ.
And the church is an individual. God deals with Israel as a nation, but the Gentiles as individuals. Now, you get it, do you? See, individual... A nation--a nation will be saved when Israel comes. It'll be just born overnight when Israel will come to God at one time. But then, when the Gentiles, it's individual. A people He's taken out of the Gentiles for his Name's sake, making up His Bride.

L-33 Now, what would we do then tonight if we wanted to find out whose church He's in? If I wanted to see if He's in the Pentecostal church, if I wanted to see if He's in the Baptist church, or the Catholic church (the oldest organization), or which one of them? Lutheran, that's next to Catholic, and Wesley comes next, and on down like that... If I'd go over, look them churches, what would I look for? A man that would look like Him? No. There might be many men look like Him, just exactly. What would I look for?
Then I'd look for a man that had a Life in him. I'd look for a church that had a Spirit in them just like His Spirit. See? I'd look to see His works. He said, "He that believeth on Me... (Saint John 14:12) He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." Is that right? Then we... He said, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Now, you find in the translation there, it said, "Greater than these shall he do, shall he..." But actually the right translation from it is... I've got the "Emphatic Diaglott," and it says, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also, and more than this shall he do," not greater, 'cause they couldn't do no greater. He raised the dead, healed the sick, stopped nature. There's nothing could be greater. But it's not in quality, but in quantity He could do greater.


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