<TITLE>04. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 We want to read some of the Word, just in a moment. Now, and tonight, if possible, I just want to speak just a few moments and maybe call up some of those prayer cards that were left off last week, or last Sunday. We been having more or less, meetings of a--preaching this week, because we've been waiting for an audience. This is a--a fleece before the Lord. Now, let's bow our heads just a moment to talk to the Author before we read His Word.
Our kind, loving heavenly Father, we approach Thee tonight, in the lovely Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. We love Him because He first loved us and gave His life for us. And we who were once alienated from God, cut off without mercy, without hope in the world, sinners by nature, dying in disgrace, going to a devil's hell and endless eternity... While we were in this condition, enemies of God, God sent His own Son, made in the likeness of sinful flesh; took upon Himself the form of man, suffered, bled, and died to redeem us back to the Father. And now we are sons and daughters of God by His grace. Oh, how we thank Thee for it.
And great One, in Your majesty tonight, we pray that You'll bless our coming together. We're not worthy for, to have these blessings, but we ask them because Thou has promised them. And what You promise, that You will do.
O God, in these years of service, we have found You to be just exactly what You promised. And we pray tonight now, that the Holy Spirit will be here, the resurrected Lord Jesus, and will spread forth His great power over this audience. Save the lost; recall the backsliders back home. Heal the sick. Rejoice with Your saints; for we ask it in His Name. Amen.

L-11 In Saint Luke the 8th chapter and beginning with the 50th verse, we read this:
But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: only believe, and she shall be made whole.
And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, but Peter... James and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she's not dead, but sleepeth.
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.
And the spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.
And her parents was astonished: but he charged them that she... tell no man what was done.

L-12 Now, in, just for a few moments, if I'd speak just a little on God's written Word, well, the meeting would be a success, even by the reading of His Word. Now, may the Lord add His blessings.
We're speaking now of Jesus in this great time of the resurrection. It was three people that He raised while He was earth. He said before He went to the grave of Lazarus, "I am the Resurrection and Life; He that believeth in Me, though He were dead, yet shall He live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die." And He had the resurrection power in Him. He said, "You destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up again in three days." Now, if He was the Resurrection and Life...
But all the time in His ministry, He only raised up three people from the dead. Now, no doubt but He had many critics in that day that said, "Why didn't He raise up these, and why didn't He raise this one? And this priest just died, this holy man just died, why didn't He raise up them?"
Jesus plainly stated that He only did what the Father told Him to do, what the Father showed Him in vision. Jesus saw visions, and only worked as God showed Him by visions only. Saint John 5:19, He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Just what the Father showed Him and nothing else, nothing could He do except first God revealed it. So three is a witness, for it's written in the law that three is a confirmation: "In the mouth of three--two or three witnesses, let every word be established."


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