<TITLE>04. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight, the great Creator of heavens and earth, the Author of Everlasting Life, the Giver of every good gift, for sending Jesus Christ, Thy Son, to this earth to die in our stead, the lovely for the unlovely, the guiltless for the guilty. How we thank Thee, to know that He loved us while we were sinners, and gave us Eternal Life, and now we are His children, and we thank Thee for this. "And it does not yet appeared just what we'll be in the final end of it all, but we know we'll have a body like His. For we shall see Him as He is." Lord, that's the longing of every heart here, I know, is to see Him as He is--the lovely One, to look upon Him. When we can adore Him, and crown Him our King, and tell Him of how we appreciate Him through the ages that is to come. While He sets on the throne of David, His Father, reigns upon this earth for a thousand years in that millennium... How that we would love to stand somewhere (just give me a place, by the side of a tree), where I can set down and watch Him, and look at Him. That'd satisfy me.
And I pray, God, tonight, that His Presence will be so close to every one here. If there be any unbelievers, may they become truly surrendered children to God tonight. Some are backslid and gone away from the well beaten path. We pray that You will bring them back into the way. Heal all the sick and the afflicted, Lord. May there be no feeble among us tonight. Because that that was included in Thy suffering, Lord. You bore our infirmities. "You was wounded for our transgressions. With Your stripes we were healed." Help us, Lord, tonight to say as David of old, "And forget not all of His benefits. Who forgiveth all of thine iniquity. Who heals all of our diseases."
Anoint the lips that will speak, Lord, and the ears that will hear. And may the Holy Spirit take the Word of God and give it into every heart just as it's needed, for it is written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. These blessings we ask in the Name of Thy dear Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

L-16 Just for a--a few moments by the clock, to speak to you about "Witnesses." A witness... Jesus said here, "You shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit's come upon you and then you shall be witnesses unto me." Not when you join the church, you'll be a witness; not when you become a deacon, you'll be a witness; not when you're ordained a minister, you shall become a witness; but when the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll be a witness.

L-17 A witness must be someone with an experience, must know something. In the courts of our land you can't come up and say, "Miss So-and-so told me so-and-so about so-and-so." They'll throw the case out right then. You've got to be either an eye or an ear witness. You've got to know something before you can be a witness. And you've got to know something before you can be a witness of God. And all God-called witnesses are people with experience of knowing what they're speaking about.
And we have an experience of the witnesses of God in Phoenix, tonight and all over the world are those who has experienced the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And you can only experience it by the witness of the Holy Spirit.
Say, "How long was it to last?" In Acts 2:38, Peter tells us that this experience was for you and to your children and to them that's far off and even as many as the Lord our God shall call. That's how far the witness should be. And as long as God calls, God-called witnesses must have the experience.


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