<TITLE>07. Par 66-74</TITLE>L-66 Now, today, there might be some, we might rub crosses, we might rub bones of dead people; it's human hearts a calling out for something. They are. There's something in them that seems to... Being human beings, they want... They know there's something somewhere, greater than what they know anything about, and they're searching for it, searching for it. And they're trying to find it by worshipping bones of dead people, by rubbing crosses, by building great churches.
But, oh, to that blessed hope today, to that blessed assurance, that every man that's ever come in contact with the resurrection, knows beyond any shadow of doubt, that Christ has risen from the grave, and we arose with Him. We are risen with Him this morning. That... See, it's not no...
It's a hunger, every one of you coming to Christ. Before you received the Holy Spirit, you hungered and thirsted. You moved. You sought. You read the Bible. You cried. You done everything that there could be. You might've said rosaries. You might've repeated beads. You might've done all kinds of religious acts. You might've quit eating meats. You might've kept sabbath days. You might've done all these religious things that the world speaks of today.
But when one time that you ever surrendered to a crucifixion, there come a resurrection that gives you the assurance of, "I know my Redeemer lives today." That blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, oh, what a foretaste of glory divine; heir of salvation, purchased of God, born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.
That's the good news. That's the general orders. That's the great commission that we should go into all the world and preach this Gospel, give it to the people in the power of the resurrection. Now, trusting that...

L-71 Now, our time just being about up for this little morning talk together. We're to preach now, in about a couple of hours, to be back to preach the Easter service today.
But today in this little talk, what a wonderful feeling. What a wonderful fellowship together. And I believe with all my heart that today this little old tabernacle will see the direct evidence that Jesus Christ raised from the dead, visible before their eyes; God healing the sick, and doing the great signs and wonders that the great commission included. The great atonement that was made at Calvary included these things. And to me, it's the infallible proofs of His resurrection. After He had raised from the dead, He said, "You must go into all the world and preach this Gospel to every creature. These signs shall accompany them that believe."

L-74 And you can have all the cathedrals, and all the rubbings, and all the everything else you want. But give me the resurrected power, that I can see the Lord Jesus today, as the Lily of the Valley and the Morning Star. That seals it to me. And then I can say with Job of old, "I know my Redeemer liveth."
What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again, from every sickness, anything, any bondage that I was ever in? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus and the power of His resurrection. What a marvelous thing. I love Him. Don't you? [Congregation, "Amen."--Ed.] Blessed be His holy Name.


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