<TITLE>06. Par 51-63</TITLE>L-51   Now all founders of religion. Standing there at the grave of Mohammed, has been a white horse, that's been standing there for two thousand years. They've changed the guards about every four or six hours, and they're expecting Mohammed to rise and--and ride down the world. You know, the... and he wrote the book of the Koran, and so forth. But, oh, Buddha, about twenty-three hundred years ago, was a--a man, a religious man in--in Japan, and so forth. And all these religions, every one of their founders is dead and in the grave.

L-52 But Christianity, after a world-wide experience, Christianity is the only true religion. It's the only one that can show an empty grave. It's the only one that their founder, any man, and no man like Him, ever stood on earth and said, "I have power to lay my life down and take it up again. A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me. The unbeliever won't see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me. For I," I is a personal pronoun, "I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world, to the consummation." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever!

L-53   Now we come to the thought. Now if He is the same, He is not dead. He is risen from the dead, and He promised that His believers would see Him, all down to the end. Plumb to the consummation, that they would see Him, now, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-54 Many man that I've talked to, said, "Well, in a way He is the same."
The Bible didn't say, "in a way." It said, "He is the same."

L-55 And if we hunger to see Him, with the same enthusiasm that these Greeks did. They had heard of Him, they come and they got to see Him, through the courtesy of one of His disciples. Well, can't we do the same, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? "Sirs, we would see Jesus."

L-56   Now, we can talk about the resurrection, we can speak of it. But if it isn't a reality, it becomes just a--a mere myth, it's a story. But if it's proven that it is the Truth, then we are among the people most happy, and I'm glad to be with them.

L-57 Now, if--if Jesus Christ will appear before us, tonight, and we can see by God-given principles, and by the very acts of His Being, that He is here, then we should at least accept Him, make Him welcome. Now, that's a great big statement, but we have a great big God that keeps every one of His Words.

L-58 And when we find anything in the Bible, hang your soul on it. It's the Truth. Just stay right with what God promised. God will do.

L-59   If we are the children of Abraham, we believe those things. Abraham, against great circumstances, called the things that were not, as though they were, because he believed that God was able to keep His Word. And we call ourself the children of Abraham. Abraham waited twenty-five years for the promise. Instead of getting weaker, he grew stronger. And how different it seems to be today with His royal Seed.

L-60 Now, the real seed of Abraham is--was Isaac, we realize that, which come the Jew, which is outward.

L-61 But the Seed that God was giving the promise to, was the Seed of Abraham, the faith that he had in God. Which, through Jesus Christ, Who is His Word, we become heirs with Him. And this church, tonight, of the pilgrims of this day, is absolutely the royal Seed of Abraham, with genuine faith.

L-62 Now, if I would ask the Methodists, "Do you believe it?" "Yes." "Do you believe He is with you?" "Yes." The Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, so forth, everybody would say the same.

L-63   But now how would we look for Him? What kind of a person would we look for, if we wanted to see if He was the same? If He was here in Arkansas, tonight, in this tabernacle, what kind of a person would we look for?


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