<TITLE>13. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 Now, we wouldn't go down to town to find a man, look around... We'd say, "Jesus Christ is with us." We wouldn't go downtown to find a man had on a robe, and nail scars across his head, or thorn prints, and nail scars in his hand. Any hypocrite could do that. See, see? It takes the Life in him to do it (See?), his Life. The Life of the man...
Jesus said here in Saint John, "He that believeth on Me the... (Saint John 14:12), He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." 'Cause His Life... If we were a sinner tree and had a Christ tree put in us, then that Life would bear fruits, just exactly like the peach tree to the pear tree, or so forth; the apple tree, to whatever it was. Is that right? See, you'd have to see what He was yesterday.
Now, Paul speaking here was speaking of yesterday, means the Old Testament. What He was yesterday He is today, and will be forever. That's the Old Testament, the New Testament, and forevermore: same yesterday, today, and forever. See?

L-44 Now, what was He yesterday? Now, if He was a--if He was a great rich man yesterday, He'd be a great rich man today. But when He come yesterday, we find out that He didn't even have a place to lay His head. That's right. "The birds of the air have nests; the foxes has dens; but I don't even have a place to lay My head."
He--He had it... When He come to the world, He borrowed a womb to be born in. They had no cradle to lay Him in, so they laid Him in a box of straw. When He died, He was nailed to a Roman tree under capital punishment. He had one robe to put on. It'd been made for Him, wove throughout without a seam. He had to borrow a grave to be buried in. So there's none of us that bad off.
He come to show what God was. Anything that's high and haughty isn't God. God is low and humble. That's what made Him God. See, something that comes low, not them that goes high... So God doesn't dwell in arch--hierarchies, and things. He dwells in humility. The way up is down. Humble yourself and you'll be exalted; exalt yourself and you'll be humble. That's right. See? God knows how to do it. So you have to remember; humble yourself before God. Don't try to think your own thoughts; think His thoughts. See?

L-45 And the whole Christian armor now is unseen. The Christian looks at what he doesn't see natural.
Now, look. That's the only way you can be a Christian. You got to believe God, who you can't see. See, now look. Watch here. The whole Christian armor is love, joy, faith, long-suffering, patience, meekness, gentleness: Holy Spirit. See? All those things are unseen; they're unseen. But the things that's unseen is the ones that has the reality: the unseen things.

L-46 Now, we'll take Jesus. We all know His birth, how He was predicted from the garden of Eden, the Seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, and he'd bruise the heel, and so forth.
Now, but when He came, He was born in a manger, and He raised up in a humble home. And then went to live with some people, Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. And at the age of thirty years old, John the Baptizer baptized Him in the river of Jordan. And God came down in the form of the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, and went in Him, and dwelt in Him.


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