<TITLE>01. Par 1-13</TITLE>64-0617, The Identified Christ Of All Ages, Municipal Auditorium, Topeka, KS, 72 min
L-1      A few Scriptures here that I want to refer to tonight. I was thinking on the subject of what we're here for. I want to read for a portion of Scripture, which I believe that all, every meeting, should have God's Word read in it. Because, I know He could meet us without reading the Word, but I'm so afraid that I'll make a mistake. So if I read His Word, I know there is no mistake in That. So I--I read His Word, then I know that something will come from the meeting, because of the reading of His Word.

L-2   And therefore, basing our thought upon the Scripture that we shall read, one place is found in Saint John, the 10th chapter, beginning with the 32nd verse and 39th, inclusive; then in the familiar old text, Hebrews 13:8. Now in Saint John, the 10th chapter, beginning with the 32nd verse, we read this.
And Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because... thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scriptures cannot be broken;
Say ye of him, who the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hands,

L-3 And in Hebrews, the 13th chapter and the 8th verse.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday... to day, and for ever.

L-4   Let us pray. Heavenly Father, sanctify the messenger tonight, Lord, to the Message, and the hearer of the Word, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-5   Now as we approach this text, just a little formal text for the first night, to get acquainted, I want to take the text, the... The Identified Christ Of All Ages.

L-6 Now the Book of Hebrews here tells us that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-7 And we read in the Bible here that these Jews was questioning Him. We find the Greeks questioned Him. And it was a constant question. It was because so many people have so many different interpretations of Him.

L-8   No one has ever heard of Him but what longed to see Him. I am sure that if I could ask tonight, "How many of you would like to see Jesus?" every hand would go up. There is not a--there is not a person that ever heard of Him but what they want to see Him.

L-9 There is something about even His Name, that just... it just enchants us. There is something about it that thrills our heart, just to hear that Name, Jesus. Because, in that Name we have forgiveness of sin, we have our redemption, for the whole family in Heaven will be... bear that Name. And so we... God taking this human Name to be placed upon Himself when He was manifested in the flesh. What a wonderful Name!

L-10   Now we're--we're thinking of Him being so great! And down through the ages, all man has cried to see God. Now the trouble of it, since the time of Job...

L-11 I think Job is considered one of the oldest Books of the Bible. It was just placed in. It was written the time of Moses, Moses writing the--the first four books.

L-12 Now we believe that--that Job, in there, cried out one time, "If I could only see Him! If I knowed where I could go to His house! I'd like to," in other words, "knock on His door."

L-13   We all know that we come from somewhere. We are behind some curtain that we... There is something in us reaches out for something, that we know that we come from somewhere. We cannot be just like we are without being something behind us to make us.


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