<TITLE>09. Par 78-88</TITLE>L-78   Now, if we can see how He identified Himself yesterday, then we'll know what He would be today, because He would identify Himself the same today that He was yesterday. Is that true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then He would do the works of God. Now, He wouldn't be dressed...

L-79 He wouldn't have a certain education. We have no record of Him going to school. And He wouldn't be a certain eloquent speaker, because we find that His language was so--so poor, until, "The common people heard Him gladly." See? So He would be just a Man.

L-80 But what would identify Him would be the identification that the Scripture says that He would be. And that's how we would have to identify Him. And that's the way He was identified then, because He wasn't any spectacular Man in a certain array of dress. He had no organization that He boasted of. He had no--no credentials from any certain fellowship, that He could say, "I belong to the biggest." Or... See? He only had the works of God, that was proven and spoke of, that would identify Him. And that was His credentials. That was His.

L-81 "Who can condemn Me of sin?" And sin is unbelief. See? "Which one of you can condemn Me? If I haven't done just exactly what I was supposed to do, then you tell Me where I failed," in other words. See? Now, that's the way it would be today identified.

L-82   Now let's find out, then, how He was identified in that day. Was it by a certain fellowship? Was it by a certain form of education? Was it by a certain scientific mark that He had? Or was it by a Scriptural evidence, that He proved Himself, that He was the Son of God? "Search ye the Scriptures," He said, "for They are They that testify of Me."

L-83 The Scriptures is what testifies of Him. So that's what identified Him, was the Scripture. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That's what will have to identify Him today, then, then we'd know whether we were right or not, whether it was Him. He was the same, He would do the same. Now, let's take now...

L-84   We read from Saint John, and let's just take it quietly for the next ten or fifteen minutes, and then see if He will appear and prove He's God, see, see if He is still alive. We believe that He's not dead. That's one thing...

L-85 I'm a missionary. I've preached pretty near in every nation under the heavens, seven times around. And I have seen all kinds of religions, stood before witch doctors and every cult, I guess, there is, as far as I know. And yet, every one of them, Buddha, Mohammed, Sikhs, Jains, whatever it might be, they all have a founder, and every founder is dead. They can mark his grave, and there he lays. There's his bones.

L-86 But, Christianity, there is an empty tomb. He lives. And the good thing about it, we--we... He proves that He's alive. He, He is here now. See? Now, that's the thing that a Christian can rest upon, that we know that all the rest of the tombs are full. But this one, there's an empty tomb. "He is not here, but He is risen. And we're going to tell the brethren this good news." And He is here, same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-87   Now we'll start off with Saint John, being that we read in Saint John. And every book in the Bible will declare the same Message. It has to. If it isn't, it isn't Scriptural.

L-88 Now we find out, that, when He was born. Here in the 1st chapter of Saint John, we'll start at the 1st chapter. When He was born, we know His birth; and how the Angel Gabriel announced it; and Mary His mother; and how He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. And how, at the age of thirty years old, He was baptized by His cousin, John; or second cousin, John the Baptist. And immediately He was taken into the wilderness for temptation, for forty days, then returned back in the power of the Spirit. In the power of the Holy Spirit, He returned to His ministry.


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