<TITLE>04. Par 32-41</TITLE>L-32 And having a--a--a broad experience kind of pays up a little for my lack of education, by having dealings with other religions, such as Buddha, and--and the Mohammedan, and different types of religions. I seen them around and around the world, as I've travel, and looked into them and searched them over. But there is only one True that I believe is right, that's this, Christianity, see, and then it's--it's the only one that can prove that the Founder of this religion is not dead. Now I...

L-33   They carry, have a horse setting at the... or standing, rather, at the tomb of Mohammed, and they believe someday he'll rise and ride the world down in the victory. And, but he's dead. He has been dead several hundreds of years. Buddha died about twenty-three hundred years ago, he was a philosopher in--in Japan, China.

L-34 But now our religion, of Christ, He did die, He had to die in order to save us. But we show an empty tomb. And now His Life, reflected in us, proves that He is not dead, see, and--and His promises.

L-35   Now, of course, if you'd say that in a foreign nation, amongst the Mohammedans, they'd say, "Yeah, he reflects his life in us. But he never made any promise, see, these promises." But he said, "Your Jesus made these promises, now we're waiting to see you teachers perform what He said that He promised." See, that's what the wait is for.

L-36 And that's where they caught our Brother Billy Graham, that Mohammedan teacher, well, about, said, "If this... You just bring so many, and I'll bring so many, and I'll do as much with them as you will."

L-37 Well, that was quite a challenge. But he will challenge that to the wrong person someday and then, see, it'll be. Now, I would--I would believe that--that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-38   Now, according to the Scriptures, we are supposed to be "written epistles" of Him. The Bible says that we are "written epistles." And if, tonight, we would hunger and thirst to see the Lord Jesus Christ, we as Christian believers should reflect His Life, so much, till it would be His entire representative. We should be that. Every Christian should be represent and reflect the Life of Jesus Christ. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] And I believe that every Christian should be reflecting the Life of Christ. He said, in Saint John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works I do shall he do also." And then we know that that's true, that we are His representatives. And if we claim that Christ lives in us, and if Christ lives in us, then we should do as Christ did. We should reflect His Life.

L-39   What if I said, tonight, that the--that the life of Shakes-... What if I said Shakespeare lived in me, or you said Shakespeare lived in you? All right, you would write the poems that Shakespeare wrote, because Shakespeare lives in you. What if you said Beethoven lived in you? You would be the great composer that Beethoven was, because Beethoven lives in you. You're not yourself, now you are Beethoven or you're Shakespeare.

L-40 Then if Christ lives in you, there you are, see, the Life of Christ you live. See, it's just that way, if He lives in you. But you can't live in there with Him; He has got to live in you. That's always, He takes your place, and we are supposed to represent Him in every way.

L-41   Now we find that the first church did represent Him, as written epistles, His Life lived through those people. I can't compare our church today. As--as hard as it is to say this, as much as I love people, yet you've got to be honest and tell the Truth. I can't say that we see, in the churches today, reflecting Christ in the way that those people did.


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