<TITLE>07. Par 58-70</TITLE>L-58   Therefore, if somebody would come on the platform, or among us, and have scars in his hands, and nail prints, and thorn prints on his forehead, and bleeding, now, see, that--that wouldn't be Christ. Cause, when He comes, every eye shall see Him, and every knee shall bow, when that body returns to the earth again. See?

L-59 But what, why could He be the same yesterday, today, and forever then? See? We have to learn now what--what He is.

L-60   If I asked, say, maybe the Lutheran people here, what's your conception of Him? "Why," they'd say, "we--we have Him at our church." Well, I don't doubt that. "But He's this." And then maybe turn over to the Baptist people, and they'd--they'd have a little different idea. And I'd turn to different kinds of the full Gospel people, like the Assemblies of God, the Foursquare, the--the Pentecostal United, and--and the--the different branches of it, each one might have a different idea about It. Each individual in there might different. But they...

L-61 We've got to have something that we can come to some conclusion, or we won't know to where--where we're going. I think the thing that would settle that would be the Word of God. And regardless of our creeds and our thoughts, the Word of God ought--ought to settle it.

L-62   So, therefore, some of them claim that He--He was, to some people, He was just simply a--a great organizer. "He organized a--a body of twelve apostles. He was a great organizer." As far as we know, He never organized nothing. He never did a thing like that. He just...

L-63 He was the manifestation of God. "It was God in Christ, recognizing the world to Himself." He was expressing what the Father was, in Himself. He said, "I do always that which pleases the Father. And I and the Father are one. The Father dwells in Me. When you see Me, you've seen the Father." In other words, He expressed God, the Spirit so much in Him, till, "He and the Father, it wasn't robbery for Him to be the same Person."

L-64   Now, we find in here, some think, "He was a philosopher." He was a philosopher. There's no doubt about that. He... But He was more than a philosopher.

L-65 Some of them thought Him to be "a prophet." He, He was a prophet. True. The Bible said He was. But He was more than a prophet.

L-66 Some of them said, "He was a teacher. 'Never a man taught like this.'" He was a teacher, but He was still more than a teacher. See?

L-67 Some of them say, "He was a good man." But He was more than a good man. He was a good man, but He was more than a good man.

L-68 And when it's all summed down, He was God. So He wasn't nothing less, or nothing more. He couldn't be nothing more, of course. "But He was--He was God manifested in the flesh, and believed on in the world, received up into God, and sit at the right hand of the Father."

L-69   Now, we find out, to get the real expression of Him, we... John, in the 1st chapter of John, he said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."

L-70 Now, in the beginning, that's when time started, when Eternity broke down into time. Now, after while, time comes back into Eternity. Course, time is Eternity, too, but time is a lotted space. And that's the way, only thing we know, is inches, and yards, and miles, and--and figures, and so forth. But that's nothing to God. He don't have no time. He--He's always.


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