<TITLE>15. Par 62-67</TITLE>L-62 And Christ in the foreground... How friends, this morning, if we could take this veil here, that's before our eyes (as flesh has blinded us), and rip that veil back like this, and just look beyond the curtain of time, to wonder what it would be... I used to sing a little song:
 I'm heartsick and blue, and I want to see Jesus.
 I want to hear the sweet harbor bells chime. (Yes.)
If I could only see Him and just look past the  curtain of time.
 It would give me more faith and renew all my strength
 If I could only look a past the curtain of time.
Who was that there in this Jerusalem on earth, right then, that had no beginning of days or no ending of years, and come out, and give the communion to Abraham, who had the promise? And the promise is extended to us this morning. It's to every one of you.

L-63 We could have more time. I wish we did, on this great subject. Maybe, someday, after the--this journey's over, as I go across the nations now to the foreign lands and around, preaching the Gospel, let me leave this thought with you: My beloved children, my brothers and co-workers in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, be not weary. Take new courage this morning. Lift up your head. Lift up the feeble knees and hands that once hung down. Look unto the Author and Finisher of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who has give us these promises.
This thing that I have tried to preach to you through revelations, that was given to me by the Lord Jesus Christ. While I am yet ignorant and uneducated, illiterate, yet Almighty God has placed it before the world, for it's infallible.

L-64 Setting here, this morning, is those who were crippled and afflicted last week, and this week are normal and well. There are those who were deaf standing here a few nights ago, are standing here now, hearing just as good as the rest of them.
What is it? It's God's unconditional covenant that He made with Abraham and his seed. He promised He'd do it; so therefore, let us believe it this morning with all of our heart. As a people, some of us setting here, old, and some of us getting gray, some of us... Before we meet again, there may be some of us pass beyond the veil. But whatever you do, whatever life produces (if it produces sickness, if it produces anything in the world), keep your anchor within the veil. Keep looking to the Author and Finisher, yonder, the Lord Jesus Christ. Call those things which seem to be, as though they were.

L-65 There's three elements that a man follows. First it's humanistic. Second is Divine revelation. Third is the vision that's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Many times we are down in here and never climb into this. If you're not down in there, cast your hopes through that veil up here to THUS SAITH THE LORD. Though you don't see the vision, though the revelation doesn't come, though when you're prayed for you say, "I just wished I could believe," that doesn't make any difference. Cast your anchor down there and call it so anyhow.

L-66 Abraham couldn't see. He said, "How can it be?"
Mary couldn't understand how could she have a baby, not knowing no man. He said, "But the Holy Ghost will overshadow you. He will bring it to pass."
She said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me." How was it going to be done? She didn't know, but she cast her anchor beyond the veil and went forth testifying she was going to have a baby, before she felt life or anything. She called those things which were not as though they were.

L-67 Abraham, when he was seventy-five years old, God give him the promise (and Sarah sixty-five years old), gave the promise. And twenty-five years elapsed before it ever come to pass, but Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving praise unto God, and calling those symptoms and things which was, as though they were not, and testified only what God said was true, because he had the promise.


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