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

1. Jesus Christ is the same: Even though men
change so much Jesus Christ never changes. He is
the same today and forever.
I once visited an old man with some little children. The
old man stretched out his hand to embrace the children but
they ran away from him. We soon forgot about the children
and began chatting. After a while, he told me, “Old age is not
an easy experience.”
“Why do you say that?” I asked.
He said, “I used to be a very handsome man. Can you see
my picture over there?”
He continued, “When you grow old you change so much
that even children are afraid of you.”
When he said that, I thought of how much human beings
change as the years go by. If Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today and forever then He is certainly not a man
because He never changes.
One day a relative of mine died and it was time for his funeral.
His body was laid in state for the wake keeping and the funeral
was successfully conducted. Because he was a lawyer, a large
group of lawyers gathered around his body to honour him. They
made several speeches over his dead body and recounted his
good deeds.

A few weeks after the funeral, another family approached the
family of this lawyer to inform them that it was suspected that
they had buried the wrong person. Indeed, there had been a swap
of the bodies and the person they had buried was not a lawyer at
all. He was a poor man from a poor family but his body had been
mistaken for the lawyer’s. This poor man had received all the
praise and honour that was due the lawyer.
How was this amazing swap possible? How was it possible
that the widow and relatives who were sitting by the body did not
recognize that it was not the body of their loved one? This had
happened because dead bodies change so much that the relatives
assumed that their beloved lawyer had changed because he had
been so long in the mortuary. Human beings change so much
when they die. They are simply not the same that is why we
agree to bury our loved ones away and out of our sight forever.
But Jesus Christ does not change. He is the same yesterday,
today and forever!

2. Jesus Christ is the same: Jesus Christ is still DOING
the same things that He used to do.
He is healing your diseases and your sicknesses just as He
healed the diseases and sicknesses of many people.
You Have Not Changed!
One day I had a telephone call from someone I knew in
school. As we talked for some time he said, “Dag, you have not
changed!”
Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever
And I asked him why he said I had not changed. He said,
“The way you talk has not changed and the way you laugh has
not changed and the things you like have not changed.”
I mused over my good old friend’s comment and realized that
he had given me an important revelation about Hebrews 13:8.
When you say that someone has not changed, it means that he
does the things he used to do and says the things he used to say.
That is what my friend meant when he said I had not changed.
God has not changed and therefore His words have not changed,
the things He does have not changed and His expectations of us
have not changed!

3. Jesus Christ is the same: Jesus Christ is still
HEALING
a. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF THE BLIND
– As He healed blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52)
– As He healed the blind man by the pool of Siloam
(John 9:1-17)
– As He healed the blind man who saw men as trees
(Mark 8:22-26)
– As he healed the two blind men who followed Him to
Jairus’ house (Matthew 9:27-31)
b. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF WOMEN WITH
GYNECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
– As He healed the woman with the issue of blood.
(Mark 5:25-34)
c. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF MAD MEN
– As He healed the mad man of Gadara. (Mark 5:1-16)
d. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF THE PARALYZED
– Just as He healed the paralytic who was led down the
roof (Mark 2:1-12)
– As He healed the man with the withered hand
(Matthew 12:9-13)
e. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF THE DEAF AND
DUMB
– As He healed the dumb man (Matthew 9:32-33)
– As He cast out the dumb spirit (Luke 11:14-15)
– As He healed the deaf and dumb man (Mark 7:31-37)
f. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF LONG-STANDING
ILLNESSES
– As He healed the woman who had been bent over for
eighteen years (Luke 13:11-17)
– The man who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
(John 5:2-9)
g. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF EPILEPTICS
– As He healed the epileptic boy (Matthew 17:14-18).
h. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF LEPERS
– As He healed the ten lepers (Luke 17:12-19)
– As He healed the leper (Matthew 8:1-4)
i. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF LARGE CROWDS
– As He healed the large crowd in Luke 6:17-19
j. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF CHILDREN
– As He healed the Syro-Phoenician woman’s Daughter
(Matthew 15:21-28)
– As He healed the nobleman’s son (John 4:46-54)
k. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF PEOPLE’S SERVANTS
– As He healed the centurion’s servant (Luke 7:1-10)
l. JESUS IS THE HEALER OF FAMILY MEMBERS
– As He healed Peter’s mother-in-law (Luke 4:38-39)
m. JESUS RAISES THE DEAD
– As He raised the widow of Nain’s son from the dead
(Luke 7:11-15)
– As He raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead
(Mark 5:22-24, 35-42)
– As He raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1-47)

4. Jesus Christ is the same: Jesus Christ is still SAYING
the same things that He used to say.
a. He is still saying, “I am the way, the truth and the life”
(John 14:6)
b. He is still saying, “I am the door” (John 10:9)
c. He is still saying, “I am the resurrection” (John 11:25)
d. He is still saying, “I am the good shepherd” (John 10:11)

5. Jesus Christ is the same: Jesus Christ’s blood is still
the same.

a. The Blood of Jesus will never lose its power because the
Blood of Jesus is not like the blood of bulls and goats. It
remains the same and it has the same power to save and to
wash away sins.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But
with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
1 Peter 1:18-19

b. The Blood of Jesus still has power to forgive and to cleanse
you from your sins.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:7

c. The Blood of Jesus still has the power to redeem you.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 1:7