<TITLE>03. Par 19-30</TITLE>L-19 They come to His disciples, and they were given the privilege to see Him, by the--the goodwill and the ministry of His disciples. They were brought into His Presence, by His servants.

L-20   And now if Hebrews 13:8 says, that, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever," and I'm sure that here at--at... in Baton Rouge, that we're just as hungry to see Jesus as they were to see Him then. I... Every man that's in his right mind, and hears about the Lord Jesus, he longs to see Him.

L-21 Oh, when I first heard of Him, when I was a boy, I--I--I just couldn't hardly stand it. I thought, "If He is God, He--He always was God, He--He always will be God."

L-22 So trying to put it off in some great time in the past, or--or some great time that's coming on, that's just the nature of man. Man is always praising God for what He did, looking forward for what He's going to do, and ignoring what He's doing. That's just the nature of man. It's always been that way, and it still remains that way, tonight.

L-23   But, now, these Greeks wanted to see Him, and we want to see Him. Well, now, if He is risen from the dead, and not... He is not dead. He is alive. And if He is alive, as the Scripture claims He is, then why can't we see Him? We have a right to ask to. Remember, He said, "A little while yet and the world seeth Me no more. Yet, ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The world won't see Me, but ye shall see Me." And now if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then why could we not see Him?

L-24   Now if I would go to different ideas that we've had. And remember that, God never does anything outside of what He has promised to do. See, He always makes the promise, then He comes to fulfill It.

L-25 God, at the beginning, knowing the end from begin-... beginning, 'cause He was infinite. We all know that. He is omnipresent, omnipotent, and infinite. Now, if He is infinite, then He knowed all things, and now... and omniscient.

L-26 So notice, then, He lotted His Scriptures down through the ages to come. And then when this age rolls around, why, we always try to--to have things figured out the way we think it's right, but usually... If God has made a promise for that age, His custom way of doing anything, and never changes doing it.

L-27 Remember, God never changes, never changes His ways. Because that's the reason we can definitely place our faith in what God said to be the Truth, the Bible. Now you've got to place God somewhere.

L-28   Now, if God was going to judge the world, and He is. If we would say, if I might say to the French Catholic, what do you think He'll judge it by? "The French Catholic church." The Roman Catholic believes He'll judge it by that church. The Orthodox, Greek Orthodox Catholic, believe that He'll judge by that. The Methodist would say, "Our church." The Baptist, "Our church." "The Pentecostal!" See, it'd be so confusing, till a person wouldn't know what to do.

L-29 But He said He would judge the world by Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is the Word, so He'll judge the world by the Word. Now, the Bible is the entire revelation of Jesus Christ. This is the revelation. Nothing is to be added to It or taken from It. The same will taken, our part, from the Book of Life, if we add or take from It. That is the Word of God, and we believe It.

L-30   Now, each generation, when the church usually gets It so mixed up and everything, till, when the time comes for the Word to be fulfilled, they're looking back to some other generation way back, what happened way back some other day, and they miss seeing what's happened in that day.


<A HREF="P4">Next Page</A>