<TITLE>08. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 Now, Jesus said, "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, there I will be in the midst." Now, then that has to bring Him in our presence now. Then if He is here, the invisible Christ, then why can we not see Him like those Greeks wanted to see Him? For He is the same in every way except the cardinal body--corporal body, rather. He's the same Christ.
Well, how would we know that He was here? How would we understand that He was here? Now, He made these kind of promises. "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world."
Now, He promised to be in His Church, working with them, "And the works that I do shall you do also; more than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." That's Saint John, 14th chapter, I think the 8th verse. That we can do more than He could...
The King James puts greater, but the original translation is more, because there's nothing any greater. He healed the sick, raised the dead, stopped nature. But where He was in one Man, God was then, now He is in His Church universal. So He can do more through the Church, than He could just in one Person.

L-26 Now, what type of a person would we look... if we were looking in Dawson tonight, to find Jesus? You'd like to see Him, so what type of a person would we look for? Would we look for some strange dressed person, some man dressed in religious clothes, such as robes or collars around or some other religious...? No. For Jesus wore common clothes. He...
Would we look for someone that looked different from someone else? No. He was a Man. Looked just like any man does. He went in and out men; no one knew no more than what He was just an ordinary man. And that's where the Jews could not understand Him being--making Himself God and yet being a Man. For they knowed His--His mother and His brothers and His sisters. And they wondered where all this great wisdom He had, where it come from.
He was not acquainted with any school. He... or... As His being a--an educator. We have no record of Him spending one day in any school nowhere. And we have just record of even the apostles, all of them were more or less illiterate, unlearned people. The one that pleased Christ to give the keys to the Kingdom, could not even sign his own name.

L-27 I'm not trying to support ignorance. I'm only trying to tell you, that we cannot educate people to see God. God is not known by education or science or... He's only knowed by faith, is the only way you can find Him, is by believing Him. That's the program He laid down, so that the uneducated and educated together could have--enjoy the fellowship of His Presence upon the basis of faith in His Word.
So what type of person would we look for if we would not look for that type of person? We find such today. I do not say it critically. But I say it to--to be truthfully. That we find our churches today dressed in the finest buildings. We find our ministry in the finest of robes, and--and our choirs, and our... with the finest of--of--of singing. We find our ministers with--with Ph.D., L.L., all kinds of degrees.


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