<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 In the Word tonight, which I believe that no meeting, this is just a little get together night, so that we could kinda get acquainted... I realize that I'm strange to many of you, but I would not have you feel that way, that I'm your brother. And I'm here in the interest of helping you and you helping me to know Christ better.
And over in a familiar text, and the ones who has followed the campaign, I thought just I'd speak for these few moments on this subject that might give a basic background of what we are trying to get to the people. Saint John 12:20, and in Hebrews 13:8, and also we might refer to the Book of Acts the 3rd cha--or 3rd verse, one and three.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to the feast to worship:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would Jesus.
And in Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus Christ is the yesterday, today, and for ever.
Acts 3, or 1 and 3.
... Jesus showed himself in many infallible proofs... (many infallible signs that He showed the people that He is risen from the dead.)

L-20 Now, we'd like to ask this question to you tonight. And I want you to pay real close attention because the future meetings will be based upon something of this type. Have I read from the Word of God, or is That just another book? It's God's Word. Then... I believe It with all my heart.
Now, if It is God's Word, there's a question asked here. And it was asked by a Greek, or Greeks, rather, I might say. They came up to the feast of the Pentecostal feast, and they wanted to see Jesus. And they went to Philip which was of Bethsaida of Galilee and said these words: "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And we realize that Philip the servant of Christ worked it around so that they got their request. They saw Him, because they were hunger-hearted people, that desired to see Jesus.
And I don't believe that there's anybody that has ever at any time ever heard or read of Jesus, but what would long to see Him. I'm sure that would be the desire of every heart of Christianity, to see the Lord Jesus. That's why we labor and why we lay aside everything to try to live so that we will be able to see Him someday. But I wonder if the Scriptures plainly say that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then why can't we see Him today?

L-21 Now, we have as much right to ask to see Him as those Greeks did ask to see Him. They said, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And by asking a servant of Christ, this servant was able to produce Jesus for them to see. They never ask to see His works, or to hear His wisdom. They just asked to see Jesus. And they were granted that privilege by a servant of Christ.
Now, we are just a few days passed celebrating the resurrection. And to many of what we'd call today, Christians, that's as far as it ever goes, is on Easter to recognize that that is a memorial day of a historical event. But it's more than that. That was just a day that it started. Now, it goes on and on and on. It never ends. He is alive forevermore.
And as Luke, writing the Acts of the apostles, or the acts of the Holy Spirit in the apostles, sixty-five years after the event, said, that He showed Himself by infallible proofs, by signs, infallible signs, that He was the same Jesus that had walked on the earth, He showed Hisself alive by infallible signs, that He was the living resurrected Lord Jesus.
Now, nineteen hundred years has passed since then or better. But that doesn't mean one little dot to eternity. If we were here ten million years, it would still not be just as it was as the old saying is: "Where was the man when he jumped off the bridge?" See? You could not figure it out.
Someone said, "In the water!" He hadn't jumped yet.
Said, "On the bridge!" Well, he--he--he's still on the bridge. He hasn't jumped. So he... You see, you can't... There's no beginning or end to it.


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