<TITLE>10. Par 82-87</TITLE>L-82 Just lay aside our creeds just for a few, for an hour now, or a half hour. Lay aside our creeds, lay aside our denominational views, and so forth, and let's go back and find out what He was. Now, would that be... That would be logical, wouldn't it? That would be fair. Go find what He was, and then we'll know what He is if we can find out what He was. But the only way you'll... If He was a creed back there, then the creed's right. If He was a denomination back there, then that's right. Find what denomination it was or what creed it was.
But we find out, back there He was the Word, so He's still the Word. Now, I read from St. John. Now, if we turn back here to the 1st chapter of St. John, and we'll just take some of Who, what He was from the 1st chapter of St. John.
Now, we find out that, "In the beginning was the Word," as I have already quoted, "and the Word was God; and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Now, we find out what He was. Now, we've got the Word being God, and God being made flesh and dwelling among us in those days. Now, the Bible said He's the same yesterday... That was New Testament.

L-84 In the Old Testament Christ the same, Christ the same in the New Testament, and Christ, the same, forevermore... Then if we can see what He was, then what He had been, and what He will be, then we've got it. Is that right?
Moses said, now, "He'll be like me, a Prophet like unto me." Then when He come, what Christ that was, He had to be what He... Then He had to be what He was before then. So now, let's start from right there, and then we'll see what He will be forever. That's the only way to make it.

L-86 Same yesterday, now here was, we find the Hebrew writer Paul, saying, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday," speaking to the Hebrews. And we all know that Jehovah of the Old Testament was Jesus of the New, and it's the Holy Spirit of today. It's just the same God just manifested in three different offices. And so, the same God... And all that God was, He poured into Christ, all Christ was He poured into the Church. So, see, you can find quickly what He is, "The same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-87 Now, but we have to find His nature, what He was. Now, we all know, and all Bible readers will agree, that the Pillar of Fire that followed Israel in the wilderness, or they followed the Pillar of Fire, rather, that that was the Angel of the Covenant that talked to Moses in the burning bush, that same Pillar of Fire. You--you agree with that? We all do. Why, Who is the Angel of the Covenant? Christ. "Moses forsook Egypt, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater treasures than that of Egypt." See?
And now, when He was here on earth, that Pillar of Fire was made flesh, dwelt among us. When He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." Now remember, "yesterday, today." See? He come from God, from the Pillar of Fire, He goes back to God.


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