<TITLE>09. Par 38-42</TITLE>L-38 But you see, the Bible, you'll never learn it in a seminary. I don't care... That might sound awful flat, but the Bible said, God said, "He has hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and will reveal it to babes such as will learn." Is that right? He will reveal it to babes. You don't have to be smart to understand the Bible. You have to have a humble heart.
The Bible is God's love story to His Church, that's hid from all the scholarships in the world. It's only knowed by one scholarship; that's through kneeinology. If you ever had any of it... You know what I mean? Down on your knees.
Now, the--the Bible here is the... You have to read between the lines to make it right. Now, my wife setting back there, when she--when she writes me a letter, you... See, I'm really in love with my wife, and so when she writes me a letter, I'll be away overseas or something, she'll say, "Dear Billy, here I sit tonight; I've just got the children to bed, and the phone has been ringing on average about every five minutes. I'm very tired. But so..." See?

L-39 Now, what she's saying in the letter is one thing. But I'm in love with her, so I know what she really means. You see? So that's because I'm in love with her. I understand her.
Now, the Bible says one thing, but if you're really in love with the Author, you understand what He means. You see, He reveals it to His sweetheart. Don't you love to be His sweetheart? Sure. You just... You loved Him and He just... The Holy Spirit's right there, say, "Now, the--the wise and prudent would think it this way but just read right on, I'll show you what I mean." See? And the first thing you know, there's the whole picture. You just read it awhile and then set down and cry, and get up and walk around the floor, and cry. That's where you're really getting something from God. Amen.

L-40 Now, when Jesus had made the quotation that He didn't do one thing except the Father showed Him, now, watch in the vision. Now, Lazarus, He knew, was going to be sick. And now, He went away from Lazarus' house.
Well, after He was gone a day or two, the first thing you know, Lazarus took sick. Right quick, they sent for Jesus. And Jesus, the lovely Lord, instead of returning back, you know what He did? He went on farther, just ignored it. They sent again. Still He wouldn't go. And He waited till the appropriate time that He knowed the Father had told Him what was going to happen.

L-41 So then He turned to His disciples one day and said, "Our friend, Lazarus, sleepeth." And everybody said, "If he sleeps, he does well." Then He told them in their own way of knowing, said, "He's dead and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there, but I go wake him." Amen. You see it?
Look at Him at the grave. He said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hearest Me always. But I said it for those who stands around." You get it now? He already knew what was going to happen, so He knew that He'd be away, and Lazarus would have to die. 'Cause if He'd have been there, they'd been pleading to Him and everything to heal Lazarus and so forth.

L-42 Now, He never healed everybody that died. He never raised them up. He only raised three. Three is the Jewish confirmation. He raised three, and each one of them, if you will notice what He done. Lazarus, He went away for that to happen. Jairus' daughter, He... Look what He done, went across a stormy sea, all night long, fighting the waves and so forth, to get over there to resurrect Jairus' daughter.
Look at the woman, the widow's son. How He journeyed all day and His feet was tired, and set out there on that culvert, waiting for the funeral procession to come by. Sure. Easy.
Now, that's what the Father does. And it was the darkest hour that this little family had ever seen. Jesus, seemed like, had forsaken them and had gone away. Lazarus was dead, and was buried, and four days had passed. And all at once there was a--a messenger come and said that Jesus was entering the city.


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