<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 And so he took a little trip up here to Six Mile Island with an old fisherman down on the river. Coming down that afternoon after a storm on the river, and oaring his boat, coming along, the rainbow come out back in the east, and as the old fisherman was watching the rainbow, pulling his boat, the tears begin to run down his wrinkled cheeks over his white beard. And the little boy noticed the old fellow, and he rushed up from the--from the stern of the boat towards the middle, and said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you a question that my pastor couldn't answer, my mother couldn't answer, my Sunday school teacher can't answer." Said, "I'm going to ask you." Said, "Can anyone see God?"
And the old fisherman pulled the oars into his lap, and put his arms around the little boy, said, "God bless you, honey. All I've seen for the past thirty-five years has been God." You get God in here, you can see Him out there. See? But He's got to come in here first. It's got to come here first, before you can see Him there.

L-17 Jesus said the same thing: "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Now, there's going to be some "Ye's" in all the generations, in all the ages. Is that right? "Ye shall see Me." That is the believer.
Now, if we were going to look for Jesus tonight, we wouldn't exactly look to see what kind of clothes He was wearing, see how much education, what degree He had out of what college, or what denomination He belonged to; for we'd never find Him in any of that. Although as good as that is, we'd never find Jesus in that, mixed up in some organization, or some wearing of some clothes, or a certain way of dressing. He dressed like an ordinary man. He walked through the streets as other men, looked no different from anyone else. And He walked through people, the crowds, and they looking for Him and couldn't recognize Him, because He looked just like an ordinary man. But yet He was God Himself. God was in--in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

L-18 When He was here on earth there never was a birth like His. There never was a death like His. And there never was nobody raised from the dead like that. He proved what He was. When He was here on earth, He said He was God. He acted like God. He preached like God. He healed like God. He rose from the dead like God. He proved He was God. He was more than a philosopher. He was more than a teacher. He was more than a scholar. He was more than a prophet; He was God. That's Who He was.
And the people today are limiting Him to a good man, to a teacher, or to a scholar, or to a prophet. He was more than that. He was God Himself, our Saviour, God made and manifested in the flesh to take away sin and sickness from the human beings; and to redeem us back to God like we was in the beginning. And thanks be to God we're on our road back tonight. That's right. And we're seeing great things and rejoicing as we're going along the journey as the children of Israel did, passing through the wilderness. They had a brass serpent for their healing. They had water from a rock when they were thirsty. They had manna from heaven; signs and wonders following them all the time. And there was the others setting up there just as fundamental as they was in their teaching but had no signs and wonders. But God was a vindicating His true believers by signs and wonders, and that was a very beautiful type of the church today being led where signs and wonders are following the believer.
If you notice those other nations were organized and set down in great organizations and so forth. But Israel dwelt in tents. I'd call them interdenominational then. They were setting out there without an organization, without a place, just wandering about through the wilderness, just as the Holy Spirit would lead. Isn't that a perfect type of the church today: the called out separated, set aside? How wonderful.


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