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Heb 13:8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 

Mal 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Isa 62:4  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 
Isa 62:5  For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 

Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 
Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 
Col 1:23  If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; 
Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: 
Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 
Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 
Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

*SO I THINK REAL TRUE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL OUGHT TO BE UP AND GOING, OUGHT TO BE GIVING THE PEOPLE THE RIGHT THINGS: MEAT IN DUE SEASON.

FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_  OAKLAND.CA  SATURDAY_  47-0412

E-15    This day that we're living in, it's such a day of unsettled peace and unsettled rest everywhere. People are running to-and-fro seeking whatever they may seek. Most anybody can get a following. No matter what they teach or think, somebody will listen to them. And it's a day that the prophets spoke of.
People, when they're hungry, they'll eat from anywhere. If children and people are starving, they'll eat from a garbage can, that once eat from a nice table. But if they are hungry, they'll eat somewhere. So I think real true ministers of the Gospel ought to be up and going, ought to be giving the people the right things: meat in due season.
 
*ONE MAN SURRENDERED INTO HIS HANDS FULLY, THAT'S ALL GOD NEEDS.

THE.IDENTIFIED.MASTERPIECE.OF.GOD_  YUMA.AZ  SATURDAY_  64-1205

  88      Let me have this handful of people in here tonight, fully considered the Christ, and their life dedicated to Christ. I can do more with this handful, or God can do more, rather, with this handful of people here, than you could do with the whole World Council of Churches, towards the Kingdom of God. One man surrendered into His hands fully, that's all God needs.

89    But, you see, we're not willing to lay still and let Him beat this side, that side, knock this out, knock that out, knock this idea out, and that, and let Jesus Christ be reflected in us. We see too many movies. We got too many televisions. We got too many other worldly amusements, until the church has lost its taste to the people. It's because the Holy Spirit moves out, and something else moves in. That's right, friends.
 
*I'D RATHER SEE IT PROSPER IN THE POWER OF THE LORD THAN TO PROSPER IN THE WORLDLY THINGS.

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  94      But, today, we have socialized our religion to a place till it's almost like politics, itself, that we play it in all of our denominations. We're... One can't point to the other one. We're all guilty. In there you find some genuine men and genuine women. But the trouble, what I'm thinking about, we're getting too much on the--on the minority side, the genuine people that wants to believe and wants the power of God. There's too many brought in just by a social act, "Well, this is a good man. He's a fine fellow."

95    We got good churches. We build good churches, and better churches than we used to have. That's all right. There's nothing against that. I like to see the church prosper.

96    But, brother, I'd rather see it prosper in the power of the Lord than to prosper in the worldly things. Get back to the Gospel again! Get back to the power of God! Get back to pentecost, the... like the original was. But, you see, the trouble of it is, we don't want to take that beating.
 

*WHAT WE NEED TODAY IS THE LIFE OF CHRIST INSIDE OF US. 

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  98      And as Jesus said one time, "Consider the lilies. And yet I say unto you that Solomon, all of his glory, was not arrayed like one." Solomon, in all of his glory, was a magnificent sight. There's no doubt. He was a great thing to the world, and a great man before God. But Solomon's robe didn't have no life in it. It was a piece of material, probably sheared off of a sheep's back. But, the lily had life.

99    What we need today is the Life of Christ inside of us. That's what purifies; not the outward, a turned-around collar, or a degree of psychology, or something. It takes the power of the resurrected Christ to make us what we should be. God has no other plan than let the Holy Spirit rule and reign in the Church.

*NOW, IF A MAN IS SINCERE IN IT, GOD WILL MAKE SOME WAY TO SHOW THAT MAN THAT IT'S TRUTH.

GOD.IS.IDENTIFIED.BY.HIS.CHARACTERISTIC     BEAUMONT TX_ 64-0311

41      Now, if a man is sincere in it, God will make some way to show that man that it's Truth. He's obligated, if you're sincere. If you see It, and walk away from It, then you're to be judged. But, if you're sincere and see Truth!

Now, Joseph was just "minded." He said, "It's so unusual!"

42    That's the way today, that people, good man, fine man, good character man, fine ministers, many of them, priests and so forth, are good man, but the supernatural vindication of the promise of this day is so unusual, it throws them off of their balance. It does that because it's displaying the characteristic of God.
 
*HE SHAKES YOUR FAITH SOMETIME TO SEE THAT YOU'LL DO.

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116    Today we have to beg and plead, and pat and beg, and persuade and promise Christians, to come to church, "If they come to church, we'll do so-and-so."

117      Jesus, when He was on earth, He had too many with Him. He looked around and seen the congregation, He wanted to get rid of them, He said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you."

118    Could you imagine a doctor sitting out there? "Why," said, "this Man wants us to be a human vampire. Drink His Blood? Nonsense! All you people walk away and leave that crazy Man alone." They walked away.

119    He never explained It. He didn't have to explain It. He shakes your faith sometime to see that you'll do. And He's doing the same thing in this day, yes, let it seem spooky to you a little bit, to see where you stand, whether you really believe.

120    Remember, them disciples, foreordained by God, never moved. They couldn't explain It, either, but they didn't want to move. Then He comes again, He said...
All that congregation walked away, thousands.
 
*THAT'S WHAT HE COME, TO BRING THAT CAMERA, BY HIS SANCTIFYING BLOOD, TO BRING THE WORD CLOSE TO YOU.

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180    Jesus come that He might turn on the Light. The flash light takes a picture. See, that He could, you could be reflected, or He could be reflected in you; when your picture is taken, it'd look like His; when people look at you, they see God's Word living again. That's what He come, to bring that camera, by His sanctifying Blood, to bring the Word close to you. For this cause, He said, John 14:12, "The works that I do shall you do also." "And if any will follow Me, let him deny his creed, deny himself, deny the world, take up his cross and follow Me."

181      Or are you found identified in some of the Scriptures where the--in some of the Scriptures where the... them that didn't stay? Where you identified with, anyhow? The camera has already flashed. You're identified somewhere. You are setting here this afternoon, every one of us, now listen, you're identified somewhere. The camera has already flashed. You know what you are. It has took your picture somewhere. Now where you standing? You're the judge.
 
*GOD HELP US TO BE SO IDENTIFIED, IN HIM, THAT WE'LL REFLECT HIS LIFE IN OUR OWN.

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182    God help us to be so identified, in Him, that we'll reflect His Life in our own. Listen, the goldsmith used to take and beat the gold, and he kept beating it and beating, and turn it over and beating it, till he seen his own reflection in it. Then it was pure gold; all the sludge was beat out. May the Holy Ghost, today, and in this meeting, in the hours to come, may He take this Word and beat It over, in our heart, until all of the doubts, all the creeds, and all the things contrary to God, is gone, that we can, (listen now) that we, the Church, can reflect His resurrection.
 
*TRUE TO HIM AND HIS WORD, IN THE FACE OF ALL CRITICISM!

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61      Or do you find yourself identified with the real disciples of Christ? Now we're going to close, sure enough now. True to Him and His Word, in the face of all criticism! Can you identify yourself with Peter on the Day of Pentecost?

162    When all of them saw it, said, "Look at this bunch of crazy people. They're all drunk."

163    Peter stood up and said, "Ye man of Jerusalem, and you that dwell in Judaea, let this be known unto you, and hearken unto my words. These are not drunk as you suppose; this is just the third hour of the day. But this is that, the Scripture, that was spoke of by the prophet Joel." What was it? The Word of God was being manifested. 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. The promise is unto you, and your children, and them that's far off." How many? "Even as many as the Lord our God shall call." He never called all, you know. But them, that called, know what to do. All right. All right.
 
*WOULD YOU DARE TO STAND AND SEE JESUS OUT THERE, COLD, TO SEE HIM NEEDY, AND YOU WALK AWAY FROM HIM?

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164      Or, with Paul, or when you was with Paul when the--the--the popular-loving Demas forsaken him, for the things of the world, his helpmate; if you'd have seen all the people laughing at Paul, hear Paul said, "Bring a coat." A man with a ministry like he had, and only had one coat.

165    Why, Demas thought, "He ought to a-had a great big Bible school, and all this organized everywhere, and in some great association. Why, he could heal the sick. He was a prophet. Why, he ought to have all kinds of money, millions of heir, and here the man only had one coat."

166    Said, "It's getting cold down here. Tell him to bring my coat down when he comes."

167    And Demas, seeing this, went with the world, and left his poor little brother to fight it alone. Would you dare to stand and see Jesus out there, cold, to see Him needy, and you walk away from Him?
 
*WOULD YOU STAND AND SEE THE GOSPEL SUFFERING TODAY?

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168      Remember Saint Martin? Many of you brothers remember him, the writings of Saint Martin. He was in Toras, France, and he wasn't a Christian. His mother was a Christian. He was a cousin to--to Irenaeus. And, then, this was several hundred years after the death of the apostles, when they was still trying to keep the Word together; and the Catholic church was taking it all off on dogmas, and they wouldn't stand for it.

169    And Saint Martin, going through a gate, where... a cold afternoon, and there laid a poor old beggar laying there, freezing to death. Nobody would give him a coat. Saint Martin took off his own coat, cut it in half and wrapped the beggar in it, and went on. They laughed at him. "What a silly soldier that is. He is even breaking the rules of our army. He is doing all this. A man with a half coat wrapped around him, for that bum."

170    That night as he laid in his bed, he was awakened by a noise. And when he looked up, there stood Jesus wrapped in that piece of coat. He knowed what he done to that beggar, he done to Christ. That was his conversion.

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  171      Would you stand and see the Gospel suffering today? Or would you go with the popular-loving crowd, like Demas did? Are you going to stand by Him, live or die? Like Peter did, "I'm ready to go to prison, or wherever, with You." Yeah.

172    When the issue comes forth in the church, whether women should cut their hair, or what they should do, like they did in Corinthians, what side do you take then? What's your present state do that time? Think of it, sister. When, Paul said, "I suffer not a woman to teach or usurp any authority, but be under obedience."
 
*JESUS COME FROM HEAVEN, TO GIVE YOU LIFE. WHAT CROWD ARE YOU IDENTIFIED WITH?

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175      What side would you take in that issue if it was in your church? Huh? Find your present state now. I'm just trying to ask where you're at. Oh, brother, let's hurry. Paul stooped from a great position, you remember. You say, "But, brother, I--I'm a district man. I'm a--I'm a..." I don't care what you are. I'm asking you what your present position, your present character. What, what's it doing for you? Where would you be identified?

176    Paul, remember, come down from a great education under Gamaliel. Gamaliel was his great teacher, and he was a great something, would have been a great man. But he stooped, to see that the Word of God could continually grow, and gave his life for it.

177    Moses come from a throne, to be a Pharaoh, to carry the Word of God through the wilderness.

178    Jesus come from Heaven, to give you Life. What crowd are you identified with? Oh, to make a way to reflect Hisself, like a flashing Light! What would He do that for?
 
*BUT THE STATUE IS WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE, THE STATUE OF CHRIST, WHICH WAS GOD PROJECTED TO THE EARTH IN THE FORM OF A MAN.

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60      If He is a Redeemer, He come, a redeem is to "pick up that which has fallen," to redeem back to a place where it was at the beginning, so none will be picked up but them that was in His thoughts at the beginning. He come to redeem, not this cannon fodder that we see around professing to be Christians; but that He came to redeem, that was in God's thinking at the beginning. This other is just something that mixed around to show the Statue. See? It just... it's a--it's a garden, a flower garden. That plays its part. But the Statue is what you want to see, the Statue of Christ, which was God projected to the earth in the form of a Man. Amen! That's the Statue you want to see. That's the One. This other is just make-up parts, you see.
 
*THAT'S GOD, IN YOU, REFLECTING CHRIST TODAY.

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61      Now, this reflected His loving, noble character, God reflected in a Man, called Christ. He was only one that could do this. There was no other character in Heaven could do it, see, was God. He was the sinless nature. He was the Word, sinless nature of God. He was the Word expressed. Which, the Word was the beginning.

62    And if you are in the Lamb's Book of Life, you was God's expression from His thought. He seen you and seen your desire, before there even was an atom, or anything else, and you are His thought made word, and expressed in what you are now. Amen. That's God, in you, reflecting Christ today. You know what I mean?
 
*OUR CHARACTERS IS MOLDED BY WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE OF US, AND OUR OUTSIDE ONLY EXPRESSES WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE.

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28      Our character molds us to the image of what we are, our character of life that's in us.

29    Now you take a little germ of life, and when if it's a--if it's a germ of a--of a bird, it'll produce a bird. And if a germ of a--of a wheat, it'll produce wheat. A germ of corn, it'll produce corn. See, the life that's in it molds the character of it.

30    Then we find the same thing, like a life of a cancer. See, a germ, cancer germ, it molds a cancer. It's an evil life. A life of a tumor would mold a tumor, so forth.

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  31      You see, we, our characters is molded by what's on the inside of us, and our outside only expresses what's on the inside. What we are, how we walk, no matter what we say, our life speaks louder than our words does.

If we might say, "I am a believer in God."

And I would say, "Well, do you believe all the Bible?"

32    "Well, I don't know." Then, you see, your--your--your lips, your very... your life is speaking louder then than what your words would be.

33    If you say, "I am a Christian. I do not believe in doing... and I believe all that God said is Truth." Then live any kind of a life after that? See, your--your life speaks louder than what your testimony does.
 

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  34      And, you know, that's one of the greatest hindrance that the Church of God has. The bootlegger, the gambler, them people are... we--we all know which way they are headed, and they know, themselves. But the fellow that professes to be a Christian, the woman that professes to be a Christian, and then lives something different, it's the greatest stumbling block that the outside world has got, that--that--that there is in the outside world, anywhere. It's worse than anything the world can produce, is a person that's supposed to be a Christian and then lives something else different from that. Lying, stealing, cheating, and doing things that he ought not to do, it's a discredit to his testimony when you take people that do those things there. And they are they... Our character is molded in there by the life that is in us.

*YOU ARE A REDEEMED CHARACTER.

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64    But just so that you would understand what I'm trying to get to here, a reflection, you've got to be identified. And if you are, and you were in God's thinking at the beginning, see, and was His reflection here on earth, you will bear record of the Heavenly, and as He bore record of the Heavenly, also. And when He raised up from the grave, and was given a body; we, when we raise up, will have a body like His Own glorious body.

65    The resurrection is sure. It's a guarantee, and we have the earnest of it now, as the Holy Spirit comes in and identifies us as God's redeemed person. Amen! When you receive the Holy Ghost, you're sealed till the journey is over. That is your Token that you hold, that shows that your--your fare has been paid. You are a redeemed character. Satan has no business with you, none whatever. Just pick up your Token and show him, "My healing is paid for. My trip to Glory is."
 

*TAKE YOUR TOKEN; YOU'RE REDEEMED; THE BLESSING, THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

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  66      A Token is what you use to ride on a bus line, or an airplane. Your ticket is your token. See?

67    Take your Token; you're redeemed; the Blessing, the Holy Spirit. And if Satan tries to push something on you, just show This. That's your identification. Amen. You are identified in the resurrection of Christ. You are identified in His death when you die; you're identified in His resurrection. And, by that, It identifies you, that you were with Him before the foundation of the world, 'cause you are redeemed, that's, "brought back." "All the Father has given Me will come, and no man can come unless He the Father has give it, see, in the beginning."

68      Now notice, He was sinful... sinless, to take a place of the sinful, the antidote. He was without sin so that He might redeem sinners. God was expressed in Him and properly identified Himself in Him. Now notice.