<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 We find the Apostle Peter, had not enough education to sign his own name, yet Jesus gave him the keys to the Kingdom. James and... Peter and John, passing through the gate called Beautiful, "they perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned people, but they took heed to them, knowing they had been with Jesus." So that's the thing we look for today, is to be and to associate with Jesus. And if you ever associate with Him, you'll never be the same again. That's true. You can never be the same person after once associating with Jesus.
Now, we talk about this great Person of Christ, which was God in flesh. We--we speak of Him being such a great person that no one on earth never was like Him or never could be. But then we wonder what happened to this Person. Where is He? What become of Him?

L-24 Now, many times we try, through--with--through unbelief, to explain that His days is gone, but that will not satisfy the Scriptures that said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And then, if your desire today, is the same desire that these Greeks were, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And they were granted that privilege, they got to see Him. Then, if we desire to see Jesus, and if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then why can't we be granted that desire?
I believe we can, because He promised, "A little while and the world will see Me no more..." Now, "the world" there, as the brethren, the scholars, know, that--that "the world" there, is from the Greek word of "kosmos" which means "the world order." "The world will see Me no more, yet ye (the Church) shall see Me, for I ('I' is a personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the consummation." See? All the way He--He... Then, that makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-25 Then He has to be--not one that just looks like it, one that would be something like it, but He has to be the same: the same in attitude, the same in power, the same in everything, but a--a physical body. That sets at the right hand of God. His Spirit is here, in us, to manifest Himself, and to take our own lives and make it just exactly what His was. That's what He promised. "The Holy Ghost, when He is come, He will testify of Me and show you things to come." See? Now, we know that is true.
Then, if I would say to you Methodist brethren, this afternoon, "Do you believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever?"
You would say, "Most surely, Brother Branham," that He is the same.
I'd say to you Baptist brethren, or you Pentecostal, or to the Presbyterian, or the Anglican, or--or the Nazarenes, or Pilgrim Holiness, or whatever denomination we belong to, "Do you believe that?"
"Sure, most certainly He is. We believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Then, is He is the Healer? What does He do today? Do you see Him in your church just like He was in the days gone by? Now, there's the question. See? You accept it from an intellectual standpoint, conception, but is He in reality the same? That's the main thing.


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