<TITLE>14. Par 148-159</TITLE>L-148 And then as they went along, now look, it was getting towards evening time. Oh, I just love this. Wish we had a little more... Oh, my. I didn't know I was that long. Look. It was getting towards evening. I'll close. Did you notice? Now, listen close. It was getting towards evening. And He made out like He was going to go on by and leave them, but they persuaded Him to come in.
I wonder how much persuading we would do today? Wonder how much you're doing right now? "O Lord, the resurrected One, let me persuade You to come to my heart. Come in with me. I want to believe You. I've lived a halfway Christian life so I--just by believing in a knowledge faith, and so forth, intellectual faith. But I want to know You in the power of Your resurrection, for this is the only time I'll have to make preparation. I want to know You when I lay my head down to rise up no more. I want to know You in the power of Your resurrection. I don't want no just guessing about it. I want to know You. Will You just come in and abide with me? The day's far spent."

L-152 Notice, when they got inside, closed the doors, He could talk to them then. What a difference He made out of these people. Them standing on the bank didn't know Him. They'd been with Him a long time. But when Christ, once on the inside... Not Christ on the outside, reading it, saying, "Yes, that's right," but Christ on the inside, saying, "That's right." you get the difference? Christ on the inside... And He said... Once inside, the door is closed. Then He made Hisself known to them by the way He done something. He took the bread and He broke it.
And they looked and said, "There's only one Man on earth could ever could do that, and that's Him." Just the way He done something, not the way He formed His sermon, 'cause they had plenty of theologians doing that. Not the way He dressed in the Hollywood style, it would be today, not that, but the way He done something, they knew that that was His way of doing it. And their eyes were opened. They knew Him then. They didn't know Him a few days... Or the disciples that didn't see Him that way. They never was closed in with Him. They didn't know Him when they seen Him. But those who once was closed in, they knew it was their Lord.

L-157 And I want you to notice something, closely now before closing, close. On the very early morning when Mary Magdalene and Martha was at the grave first... Listen. First, early that morning, Christ showed Himself visible among the early risers. And He never showed it any more through the span of day, until the evening time. Then He made Hisself known again, for He was Alpha and Omega. "It'll be light in the evening time, the path of glory you'll surely find."
When Christ made Himself known in the early day with the apostles at the resurrection, with signs and wonders that Peter, James, John, and them did, He made Hisself known to the people (how?) in the power of His resurrection (listen) by signs and wonders and miracles which He did. Is that right? He made Hisself known.

L-159 Now, we've come through a great day. The day's gone by, through great teachers, Saint Augustine; come on down to Martin Luther, John Wesley, Calvin, Knox, all of those; down through the age of the--of the Methodist, the age of the Baptist, the age of the Nazarene, the age of the Pilgrim Holiness, the age of Pentecostal, all these ages has passed away. The sun's going down. He said, "It'll be Light in the evening time. There'll be a day," said the prophet, "that'll not be day, neither will it be night. It'll be just kind of like a mist."


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