<TITLE>18. Par 192-202</TITLE>L-192   And may I call the--the attention of this Scriptural-blind prosecutor. Now, this is going to sound ridiculous. Scripturally blind, this prosecutor is. That, in the Book of Saint Luke, the 17th chapter and the 30th verse, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom."

L-193 Now, you want to know where this is man, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever? You want to know where the nail scars and the prints, and things? Any hypocrite could do that.

L-194 The Life of Christ returns in the form of the Holy Ghost, not a nail scar. The--the corporal body is setting at the right hand of God, to make intercessions, but the Holy Ghost has come to carry on His work. I want you to know, in Saint John 14:5, Jesus said, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also." I want you also to know that John, the 14... or the 15th chapter says, that, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And how can the branches bear any other kind of a life or fruit than that was in the vine?

L-195   How can you people say that the apostolic age ceased? Where do you get it? How can a vine come out and bear, today, can go out and bear a orange, and this day bear a pumpkin? It would have to change its life. And in Malachi the 3rd chapter, God said, "I am God, and I change not." What He was then, He is today. And He always was and always will be.

L-196 I want to call you, the attention, that the prosecutor is trying to tell you that He--He said, "I was" or "I will be," but it's wrong. He said, "I am the same yesterday, today, and forever." This prosecutor is misinterpreting the Word.

L-197   When Jesus commissioned His disciples to go into all the world, in Mark 16 here, and to preach the Gospel to every creature. How far? "All the world," it never has reached it. "Every creature," it never has reached it. "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them to the end of the world. They'll lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

L-198 I want you to also know that Peter, on the Day of Pentecost, who had the keys to the Kingdom, when he stood up in Acts 2:38. He said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is to you, to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."

L-199 When did the apostolic age cease? There is the commission, "To all the world, every creature, and every one that believes." I want the court to understand that, that that's God's promise.

L-200   I want you to also understand, this blind interpreter to the people doesn't understand the Scripture. He said, here in Mark, the--the 17th chapter and the 30th verse, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom." Now go back. Jesus was referring to the same Genesis that we're referring to. "In the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Now go back and look what it was in the days of Sodom, then see where we're at and see what's supposed to happen now. In the days of Sodom, when...

L-201 Abraham, which was a type, he... We, only being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs with him according to the promise. Any of you in the court, this afternoon, knows that.

L-202 Watch Abraham. He received all kinds of signs, everything, from the supernatural God in the form of a Light, going between sacrifice. He received Him in a voice, and so forth. But the last sign that Abraham received upon the hill from Sodom, just before the Gentile world was destroyed, was God Himself in the form of a human Being. You understand, court? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] There was three Messengers come up to him. Three Messengers, and he went out to meet them.


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