<TITLE>08. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Now, the same is by Christ. If He's raised from the dead, the infallible Christ, then He's just the same today that He ever was or the Scripture's found wrong.
Now, then I wonder tonight how many in this visible audience would like to raise their hands and say, "I would love to see Jesus. Sirs, we would see Jesus."
Well now, let's see if this is the Word of God; we believe It. Now, if we would long to see Jesus, just about two Greeks came and wanted to see Him and their desire was met. So there's at least two hundred, or three, in here tonight, and more are here wanting to see Jesus, so if He was willing to show Himself to those uncircumcised Greeks, because they were desirous of seeing Him, how much more ought He show Himself to His children that's saved and borned of the Spirit of the living God? Why wouldn't He be more willing to show Himself alive to us tonight, as He was to the forty and the different ones as He met with them in the circle? It's a question. But it's a promise.
And then if Hebrews 13:8 said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever," then He's got to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in every way that He was yesterday, or He isn't the same.
Someone say, "He's the same in a certain way."
No, He's the same; the Scripture says. That's the same Jesus that was, is today, and will be forever.
Now, if I should comb down through this audience of people, and say, "The Baptists, the Methodists, the Pentecostals, the--the different types, you teach that in your church?"
"Yes. Sure, we teach it."
Well, that's what you should do. That's right, because it's the infallible Word of God.
But did you ever to try to ask God to make it manifest, to make it real to you, not just as a historical Christ, but a risen Christ?

L-23 Now, many people accept Christ as their--as their Saviour, because they're afraid of hell. Others are--are afraid to die without it. But have you accepted Him as your Lord, Who can stand in the innermost part of you, and open up the doors of your faith, and--and just let yourself be in His hands? I'm sure if you do, He will punctuate every promise in here with an amen; for it's His own Spirit that wrote the Bible, is here to make It say, "Amen," because He's the Author of this Bible.
And then, if you'll just believe Him and open your heart, and we'll ask Him now, if He will come and make Hisself known to us, like He did...
Well now, I might say, "Could... Do you find Him in your Baptist creed?"
"Yes."
"Methodist creed?"
"Yeah."
"Pentecostal creed?"
"Yep."
That's right. You'd find it. It may be written in there. But let's ask this: as it said that He is the same today as He was yesterday, then let's...
If I went to your Baptist creed, or Methodist creed, or Pentecostal creed to ask for such, you'd say, "Well, it's thus-and-thus."
And one would say, "No, it's this a way."
And another would say, "No, our creed reads it this way. We've been taught this a way."

L-24 There would be different ideas about it. But the only way to justly make it so, is to go back and find out what He was yesterday, and what He did yesterday, how He acted yesterday. And then see if He will come and be that same thing today.
Now, everyone believes and knows that the corporal body of the Lord Jesus sets at the right hand of God Almighty at the throne of God, making intercessions upon our confession. You all believe that? And the Holy Spirit is here, which was upon Him, which was God in Christ. Now, this is God in His church. God was in a Pillar of Fire once, the Logos that went out of God, that was the Angel of the covenant that went with the children of Israel through the wilderness.
Then He was manifested, the same God in the flesh, which was His Son, that He overshadowed a virgin, created a Blood cell, and lived in that Body of flesh, the Son of God.


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