<TITLE>06. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Right in the middle of the great night when all hopes was gone, that them little disciples would ever be saved, they realized that they'd gone off without Jesus. What did they do? All in there, no doubt, in distress, they prayed, wanting the Lord to come to them. They raised up and looked around, and here He come walking on the water. And the tragedy of it... Here it is, Chicago. Here it is, world. The tragedy of it, they didn't recognize Him. They were afraid of Him. They thought He was a spirit or spook or something. They were scared of Him.
And now, you cried. The sensible thing, the reasonable thing, when you get sick is go to the doctor. That's right. When your doctor fails, then you say, "I've got to go somewhere else." When you come to the meeting and you see Jesus Christ performing these signs, you get scared of it. You say, "It's spiritualism; it's the devil; it's something like that."

L-19 The only help those disciples had, they was afraid of it. And tonight the only salvation we got for both nation, church, and individual, and its healing, is Jesus Christ. And people are afraid of Him when He comes into the Church. They're afraid. They go away; they set in the church with curious looks on their face. "I don't know what to think about that. I'm just a scared of it. I don't know; that might be psychology. That might be mental telepathy. That might be the devil. He might be a soothsayer. He might be a astrologer. He might be a witch. He might be a fortune-teller." Don't be scared. It's the Lord Jesus Christ, Who saves the sick and the afflicted.
It's the only hope of salvation in this day when our nations and worlds are in a turmoil. When our nations are breaking everywhere, and when our churches are formal and indifferent, when the powers of God has failed to be preached in the pulpit, Jesus comes walking down on this troubled water. Don't be afraid of Him; accept Him. For He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, saying, "The things that I did shall you also." Don't be afraid.

L-20 Peter finally ventured enough faith to say, "Lord, You told us not long ago, 'The things that You did, we'd do also.' Now, if that be You, Lord, bid me come to You on the water."
He said, "Come on. The things that I do, you can do also." And Peter went walking.
Notice, Jesus in His last words here on earth, some of them, He said, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet you shall see Me: for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Another statement He said, "The things that I do shall you do also; even greater for I go to My Father."
And Jesus Christ can send that same ministry by man, ministered by Angels, and the world, America in whole, has looked upon it and criticized it. That's right. What's left then, but sink in the sea, hopeless. That's all. Don't be afraid, friends.

L-21 Tonight... Here Sunday night we didn't have standing room. They were packed around, because the Lord Jesus came down and done things. Some of my friends standing outside, the people went out said, "Why, he's just a soothsayer. He's just astrologist. He's just this. It's a devil." Spiritually ignorant, and don't know the power of the resurrection of God, don't realize it.
You've only heard one side of the Gospel, my friend. You don't realize that that's the very same things that Jesus did Himself and said that we'd do the same things. It's not nothing out of the catalog; it's out of God's Bible. And Jesus done those same things, witnesses Himself; He said, "I can do nothing except My Father shows Me. And what I see, the Father shows Me."


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