<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 One place said, "I'll be in you to the end of the world." He will be with us, even in us to the end of the world. "I," not someone else, "I will be to the end of the world." "I," is a personal pronoun. "And I'll be with you to the end of the world."
And many people today doesn't realize that. Only those who have their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life and has been born again by the Holy Ghost, is a witness of the resurrection.
The Bible said, "No man can say Jesus is the Christ only by the Holy Ghost." You might know it by the way of Word. You might know it by the way of the pastor, or by your mother, or some other testimony. You... But you don't know it yourself until personally He has witnessed to you that He's raised from the dead and lives in your heart. What a beautiful picture.
And now, these disciples, we're taught that they was not educated. They might not have knowed all about algebra. They might not have knowed all about the geographics of the world; but there was one thing they did know: they knew Him.

L-15 Not long ago I was talking to my good friend, a few weeks ago, William Booth-Clibborn, a very clever scholar, one of the best I ever talked to. And we were riding together, and Brother Booth said to me, he was saying some kind of a great big word, you know. If you know him how he can speak them, and preach in seven different languages, and me a little dummy set by his side. And I... He said, begin to use different Greek words and so forth. I said, "Brother Booth, the Lord hasn't given me the gift of interpretation." I said, "I--I just don't know what you're talking about."
He said, "Well, you little sinner," said, "you don't know your Bible."
And I said, "I don't know the Book, but I know the Writer, and the Author real well."...?... And I said, "Brother Booth-Clibborn, to know the Book is not Life. To know the catechism's not Life, or to know the Bible is not Life, but to know Him is Life." And I said, "I know Him."
Man, he jerked me over and bumped my head again his in a little bit. You know he cuts up like that. He said, "I just have to love you anyhow." So I... He was a scholarly man.

L-16 But these disciples might not have knowed all the ethics of the church; they might not been polished scholars. But they knew Him. And that's the main thing: to know Him. As Paul said, "To know Him in the power of His resurrection..." That's the way I want to know Him. I'm so happy tonight to put that experience in the past. One day about twenty-three years ago I knew Him in the power of His resurrection. It changed my life. As Paul said, "The life I once lived..." He lived a different kind now. And every person that's ever come in contact with the Lord Jesus Christ knows that that experience is in the past. They know Him now in the power of His resurrection.
What a heartbroken time it was in Jerusalem. Poor Mary had brought up a little innocent girl, the Holy Ghost overshadowed, a Child had been born. And how could that man... And His worried disciples, Peter said, "I believe I'll just go a fishing." And they'd seen...
How could a Man that they stood by the grave, and seen a man that had been dead four days come out of the grave...? Why, four days' time the nose has fell in on a corpse. Sure. And then a man with his nose fell in, the skin worms crawling in, and the Bible said, "He stinketh." Shows that corruption had already set in.
How could a Man stand there, tired and weary, dust all over Him from the journey, and say, "Lazarus, come forth." And a man that had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived, talked, and eat. How could a Man that could call the dead to life, hang yonder on the cross, cruelly mocked, made fun of, spit on, hanging there with great big spit hanging all over His face, and thorns on His head, and scream for mercy, and die a horrible death? How could a Man do that? See? It's not known to human beings. God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.


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