<TITLE>26. Par 116-120</TITLE>L-116 What works testified of Him? Look at that little woman up there. She said, "I know when Messiah cometh He will do these things. But who art thou?"
He said, "I'm He."
She went in and said, "Isn't this the very Messiah? Isn't that what the Messiah's supposed to do? Come see a Man Who told me the things that I've done." See? Well, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He is the same. Now, the only thing is the corporal body. "Yet a little while, and the world (cosmos, the order of the world) will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (the church, the believer), for I (And 'I' is a personal pronoun.)--I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world (consummation). I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then if the Spirit of Christ is in us, He will do the works of Christ. That's where my faith stands.

L-117 And you know I'm not a preacher. I have no education. I can't preach. I don't claim to be. But my preaching is by a gift, confirmation of what preachers preach about. In my ignorance I guess God's just let me raise up like that--but, knowed my heart, that I love people and love God. I want to do something.
And if I don't love you, then I don't love God. The only way I can serve God is serving you. Serve one another. "Insomuch as you've done to the least of these little ones, you've done it to Me."

L-118 What business do I have out here tonight? Why--why ain't I home? Why ain't I up the hills with my fishing pole somewhere? Down here for a deceiver and going to meet God out yonder in judgment? Not me. I'll go fishing, go hunting first, and meet God in peace. Standing here with a deceiver...
It ain't popularity. You know I shun that. I don't have no big programs, and beg people for money, and--and all this kind of stuff. I never took an offering in my life. I keep my meeting where I can go to wherever God sends me, if it's--no matter if it's Timbuktu, or wherever it is. If He wants me to preach to five hundred thousand like in Bombay, He sends me over there. Somebody else sponsors it. If I want to go down here where there's just four or five people, I don't have to have any money. I want to be where God can use me. And every one of us in here...?... wants to be where God can use us. See?

L-119 Now, He's God. And if He isn't the same God today that He always was, then He never was God. And the Bible says that He is a High Priest. Is that right? And He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, a High Priest living, ever living, to make intercession for us, and can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
Now, Mrs. Shakarian's testimony, hundreds of others, can testify the same thing. Now, you know that I'm not Messiah. I'm your brother, the least among all of you. I was a Baptist preacher coming among you people, 'cause the Baptists wouldn't receive it. And they told me I was off of my mind. But I know if God sent it, there's somebody somewhere to receive it somewhere. So that's why I'm here.

L-120 Now. It's just a gift. If God will just trust me in that position, I'm just His mouthpiece. Now, these men are scholars. They've got training. They know how to put it together. I just have to splatter it out there any way, just by inspiration. But they know how to set it together and make sense out of it. But I just have to reach up, and get it, and throw it; and reach, get it, and throw it. It's the only way I have of doing it.
But in this, a gift, if God will grant it, that He takes and moves, and speaks through here, just the same High Priest. The woman who touched His garment... And if He's the same High Priest, the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will act the same if He's the same High Priest. You believe that? Now, have faith in God. Don't doubt, but just believe.


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