<TITLE>07. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 "These things that I do shall you also, and more than this shall you do, for I go to the Father. Yet a little while, and the unbeliever, the world will see Me no more. But ye shall see Me. (Who? The believers, the church.) Ye shall see Me. For I will be with you. I'll be in you to the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
If He has risen from the dead, He is not a dead Christ. Sometimes churches act like He's dead. But praise God, He is not dead. He is a living forevermore. And He's here. And He will live His same Life, and do the same things that He promised. If He doesn't, He isn't God, and His Word's not right. For He said, "Ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you to the end of the world." Amen. He will be in us.
Now, let's see if the apostles taken that doctrine.

L-31 Just a moment. I think Nicodemus really expressed the thought to the--of the Pharisees when he slipped around through the dark to come to find Jesus. And he said, "Rabbi, we know that You're a teacher." Now, listen, "We." Who? The church, the Pharisees, they couldn't accept Him or they'd be excommunicated. "But we know that You're a teacher come from God. For no man can do the things that You do without God being with Him." Is that right? Philip expressed it...
I mean, Peter expressed it at Pentecost in Acts 2. Why, he said, "Ye men of Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you..." Not by his education, not by his great theology... How? "By signs and wonders which God did with Him, among you all, which you all witnesses." Is that right? That's what he said.

L-32 Now, that's the faith that was delivered to the saints. We're supposed to contend for that. What happened? The apostles had it. Look at Peter on the housetop. He saw a vision that told him to go over to the Gentiles and preach the Gospel. The house of Cornelius...
Look way down when Paul, great Pharisee was struck off of his horse and was blinded. And he went down and laid in the street called Straight in the city of Damascus. Way down in Damascus, a pastor of a little mission hid back, because the church was going to get after them...
Paul came down, the great Pharisee with a letter to arrest them people, practicing Divine healing, speaking about the resurrection of the dead. "Away with such a people." And God struck him blind, and he fell on his face.

L-33 And down in this little mission, a uneducated person, a little fellow named Ananias, he saw a vision. And he came, walking through the town, down by the main pump, the cistern, or the well. And he saw the vision where he was supposed to go. And he went in. He said, "Paul, on your road down, you were struck down. The Lord Jesus appeared to you." Why, sure, that was right. How did he know it? He was contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. He laid his hands upon him. God opened his eyes. It was a vision.
Paul never said, "Come, lay your hands on me."
God told Ananias, "Go lay your hands on Paul." See, it's God by vision.
Paul, out in the sea fourteen days and nights, no sun or moon, all hopes was gone they'd ever be saved. Two hundred and eighty men on ship, the ship was waterlogged about to sink. All was crying. They wasn't eating.


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