<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 And there's many fine Christian people this morning who belong to fine churches who doesn't realize that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and is alive among us today with the same powers, the same principles, the same acts that He did when He was here on earth. Little does people know that.
And as they journeyed along on their way down to Emmaus about a Sabbath's day journey, about a couple of miles, I guess, on their road down, walking along the side of the road, they were speaking of His death.
I want you to notice. Just when they were speaking, "Oh, why could it ever happen? How could it ever happen to us? We've left our church now to follow this Man Who we thought surely would be the... Why, we seen Him raise Lazarus from the grave after he'd been dead four days, and how could a Man that could raise a dead man from the grave ever die?"
But God works in His Own way. He was just... Just like a seed goes into the ground and dies and brings forth again... "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, it abides alone," says the Bible.

L-23 So they was wondering. But while they were thinking on Him, He appeared to them, and that's the way He usually comes to us. When you usually find your greatest blessing, you housewives? When the children's all gone to school, and you're out by yourself washing the dishes or something, when you're running the sweeper on the floor or something.
When do you men? When you're setting eating your lunch, maybe by yourself, and reading the Bible on the side, somewhere where you're on your road going home in the car, and you're meditating on... If we would let the thoughts of our heart, and the meditations of my mind be upon Him, He would appear often to us.
But the trouble, we're thinking about where we're going to make the next dollar, and what we're going to do here, and how this is going to be. Jesus said, "All these things will be taken care of, but seek ye first the Kingdom of God."

L-24 But as they went along on the road that morning, I can just see them... Oh, my. The greatest blow that ever happened to them... Here they was on the road. They'd left their church, excommunicated for following Him. They thought surely He would do something triumph there at the grave. Then they were taken from their church. They couldn't return to church any more, and they'd be branded and mocked at, laughed at, made fun of. That's the way a man does when he really sells out for Christ. He has to cut every shoreline to walk alone with Christ, Him alone.
And men and women of this world who's ever amounted to anything, are men and women who has predominately taken Christ for their Saviour and stood alone in their decisions. It'll be the same way with every man here this morning or every woman, boy or girl. If you ever wished to amount to anything, go forward with God. Don't trust your church. Don't trust your preacher, your rabbi, your priest, but stand alone in Christ Jesus. It's the only way you can do it. Don't...

L-25 If you're here to be prayed for this morning to be healed, don't say, "Oh, if I can get to the... Up there to be prayed for. Brother Branham can pray for me. Somebody else do this, that, or other." Put your trust alone in Him, and then know He raised from the dead, and has made the infallible promise, and it can never fail, God's Word. You see it?
Notice. And as they went along thinking, He appeared to them and walked with them, and they didn't recognize Him. Why, there's been many times God's walked right with you, and you didn't recognize Him. Who kept you from getting that wreck the other day? Who did this? Who--Who was it out there at the hospital when the doctor said, "Well, there ain't hardly anything no more I can do." And you got well. Who did that? Where did it come from? You didn't recognize it, but it was His grace. It was He that did this thing for you.


<A HREF="P7">Next Page</A>