<TITLE>04. Par 22-30</TITLE>L-22 And that's our purpose here today on this Easter morning, is to present to you the real Gospel truth, nothing in nobody, upon any organization, upon any foundation, only upon the Gospel, simple truths of the Bible. I believe that it is the written Word of God. I believe it with all my soul, heart, mind, and being. And that's what I want to present to this, our little city here today, in this great marvelous thing that I have seen taking place around the world for the past ten years...
We tried many times to have services, of healing services in the city; not because I think I haven't got friends here, because I have friends. And you're my friends, and I love you. But it's the idea that this is home where I was brought up. It's my place, where everybody knows me here, and therefore it makes it kind of hard, 'cause the Scripture said the same thing, that in your own town, or among your own people, and so forth, it's harder to present the Gospel. It has been, in all ages, and this would be no exception.
Now... But I believe with all my heart, that God is going to let us have the service this morning as we have asked Him to do. Now, I believe that He will do it. Therefore, if He will, by His great Presence and His omnipotence, that means then that He is in our presence. And what a wonderful time on an Easter morning, to find the resurrected Lord Jesus walking among men, walking here, as an infallible, indelible proof that He did raise from the dead.
And that's my contentions, is what I been contending for, that Jesus is not dead. He is alive, very much alive, and will be forevermore. And if God will just let us, by His grace, I believe this morning, that we can prove to you beyond any shadow of doubt by the help of the Holy Ghost, that Jesus did actually raise from the dead, and is living right here today, living right here in the building. With us unto the end of the world. He promised it.
Now, man, in his carnal way, he's built first... We'll notice that people, with good intentions, try to bring the Gospel down to a creed, try to say, "Well, we'll go to church." That's good. And with good intentions, say, "We'll have this form of a--a declaration of creed. We'll say these prayers. We'll do a certain thing." But the resurrection of Christ consists of more than creeds, more than a denomination. Although, as good as they may be, and intentions are good, but that isn't the resurrected Christ. And that's the main thing that we're after this morning, is the infallible proof that Jesus raised from the dead.

L-26 Now, as our text says, "They did not know Him," and it's the same thing today. But man has longed to know Him. Down through the age they've longed to know Him. As our text this morning, Our--My Redeemer Liveth, in the early Sunday service, we find out there that Job, as old as he was, and way back in the first, beginning, he longed to know his Creator. In other words, he said, "If I could go and knock on His door and talk to Him..." How the human heart has longed for such things. And today, after four thousand, nearly five thousand years more, how much more the human heart today longs to go to His door, knock at His door, get acquainted with Him.

L-30 And then, people, through traditions, has blinded men from the great fundamental truths of the Scripture. Now, Jesus spoke the same thing when He was here on earth. He said, "Ye are blind leaders of the blind." He said, "If the blind leads the blind, won't they all fall in the ditch?"
Now, pronouncing Christian or religious teachers blind... See, God has a way of revealing Himself to the people and making Himself known to the people, but many times tradition shuts off the people before God can get a chance to get into them to reveal Himself. See? You get it? See? Traditions, oh, what that is today.


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