<TITLE>07. Par 27-31</TITLE>L-27 Now, the question is... As a missionary I've had the experience of meeting with all kinds of religions. I was entertained just recently in Bombay, India, with seventeen different kinds of religion, and every one of them denied Christ and God. See? That's just--that's just a little group of them. See? And there's all kinds of gods, all kinds of everything.
That's why I can't... Wonder why we in America, under one God, with a church under every corner like that, can't come together and have fellowship? I just can't understand it. I can understand those people, a different god. But what about us. See?
Now, and each one has their mystic idea. But every one of them, their founders was men who lived and died and buried and still there. But there's only one of them that's true, and that's Christianity. For the Founder of Christianity lived, died, and rose again, to prove that He was God, and has been alive for two thousand years with us. That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-28 Now, I read out of Saint John. We're going to turn back the first of Saint John, and just start talking about Jesus for a little bit and find out about Him. Now, if I would say to all the--the Catholic here, "Does your church believe that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever?"
"Yes."
Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostals, Church of God, Assembly of God, oh, everybody would say, "Yes, sure." Well, there's so much difference somewhere. There's got to be something wrong or something right somewhere, to me. It's too--it's too broke up. Now, now, there's only one way that we can find out today, if He is today the same as He was yesterday, is find out what He was yesterday; and then test it whether He's the same today. Now, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-29 Now, these Greeks that came to the Lord Jesus, or came to Philip of Bethsaida, they--they themselves were curious. They'd heard about Jesus and they wanted to see Him. Now, there's an old saying, "I'm from Missouri. Show me." Now, those Greeks were something like that. We... They wanted to see Him.
I don't believe there's anybody that ever heard His wonderful Name breathed but what wants to see Him. I believe if I'd say tonight in this audience, "How many of you would like to see Jesus," every one of you would put up your hand. Is that right? Every one of us would like to see Him, everywhere. Well then, the Scriptures can't lie, and if these Greeks got their request to see Him, then why can't we if He's the same? Now, just think of it.
I'm going to take my time. I don't want you to be nervous. Just set quiet awhile and reason it as we talk.

L-30 Now, if He is the same (and God forgive me for using that word to make a point--"if He is"--we know). Now, then, why can't we see Him if they got to see Him? Now, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, the only way that we can find out whether we're right or not is to go back and find out what He was yesterday, and then He is the same today, and will be forever.

L-31 Now, if you know when this statement was made, it was made in the New Testament. It was Paul, we believe, writing the book of Hebrews to the Hebrews, separating law from grace. And we find out here that he said, "Jesus Christ is the Same yesterday (in the Old Testament), today, and forever the same." Well then, I believe that in the Old Testament it was still Jesus Christ. I believe that the Pillar of Fire that followed--led Israel through the wilderness was Christ. The Bible said It was. Any teacher knows It's the Angel of the Covenant, which was Christ.
And then when Jesus was here on earth He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me. I come from God and I go to God." And after that Pillar of Fire was made flesh in the form of man, God's Son dwelt among us, manifested Himself and proved God, for He was the manifestation of God in flesh... God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.


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