<TITLE>04. Par 29-40</TITLE>L-29   Some way, I'm not a preacher; anyone knows that. I'm, I'm--I'm a spare tire. You use a spare tire when you got a... We haven't got no flats, though. Now we, I'm just happen to be coming, and they just want to roll the spare a little while. But I--I am a spare-tire minister, because I haven't got the education to be a preacher; never went to any Bible school. But what I know about Jesus Christ, I like to express it in my own feeble way, and God has honored it. And I hope, tonight, that in the way that He sent me to minister to the people, that is praying for the sick, that He will vindicate Hisself before you tonight, that the God that I love and you love is with us tonight.

L-30   Let us now for a little routine Message. If you don't get the Message before the people, someone doesn't understand. They'll go away and say, "I never heard of such. I know there ain't no such thing as that in the Bible."

L-31 So to order to--to get this laid down, I--I want you to listen real close now, for a few moments, of a regular little routine Message title, the campaign theme: Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever. Now remember that title, that: Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever.

L-32 And I'd like to ask this, before I read, can you hear me alright? Someone told me that there was a rebound, because the ceiling like that. Is it better if I stand back like this? Is that? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] No. Have to get close. Is that better? ["Yes."] All right. That's fine. All right.

L-33   Now we want to turn in the Scriptures, to Saint John 12, and the 20th verse, and read from here.
Now there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.

L-34 Now that's quite a question, and it's a great desire. And now, for the next twenty or thirty minutes, let's listen real close now, and then it won't be a mystery to you.

L-35   Now, I am a great believer in what the Word of God says. Now, I know God can do things that's not written in the Word. But is... if He will just do what He has promised in the Word, that will be sufficient for me, just to see Him. Then I know it's right, if He wrote it in the Word.

L-36 Now if the Bible said that, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever," now these Greeks had the same desire, I suppose, that we all have here tonight. For, there is no man, or person, that ever heard the Name of Jesus Christ, but what is desirous to see Him.

L-37   If I should ask this audience tonight, I suppose every hand would go up, "Would you like to see Jesus?" That's just, see, everywhere. We love Him. Well, then I'm asking this question, then why can't we see Him, if the Bible said He is the same yesterday, today, and forever?

L-38 Now it doesn't mean just in a way. The Bible said, "He is the same." Now to me, the Bible, It either It is wrong or It is right. Now, if that's not the inspired Word of God, then I don't know what to believe.

L-39   I've had the privilege of seeing many, many forms of religion, right in--in--in Durban.

L-40 And in Bombay, I was entertained one afternoon in the temple of the Jains, where seventeen different religions of India, every one of them denying Jesus Christ, and every... Entertained there by these seventeen different religions.


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