<TITLE>10. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 And as they journeyed on the day become drawing nigh to the close, and they were very interested, they knowed that that Man spoke a little different from ordinary line of clergymen. And as He went along the road... Now, they got near the city where they were going. Now, quickly now, as we come to a close, listen.
As they got near to the place where they were going to stay, He made out like He was going to go on by. The Bible said He did. Now, many times, He makes out like He's going to pass you by. "Well, last night there was chairs setting here and cots laying here, and tonight the chairs are empty and the are people here, and the cots are empty and the people are here. Well, why don't He get me?"
Well, now a lot of times He makes out like He's going to pass you by, but He never does. He just does that. You remember, blind Fanny Crosby's hymn?
 Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
 Hear my humble cry;
 While on others Thou art calling,
 Do not pass me by.

L-36 Watch Him, He makes out like He's going to go by them. But they constrained Him to come in. They persuaded Him to come in. "Oh, come and abide with us." And He's never invited, unless He comes. When you'll invite Him and open up the doors of your heart, Christ will always receive that invitation. He's waiting, and longing, and anxious to get to that invitation. If it's preaching the Word, if it's seeing His works, seeing the sunset, seeing the sunrise, watch the flowers bloom, or the prophet prophesying, miracles or signs, whatever it is, He's trying to speak to your heart to get in. Did you know that? Now, you ask Him to come in, and He will come in.
And then when He got them on the inside... Now, here it is, notice. Once on the inside, the doors close... The little restaurant that they went into, once on the inside, seated at the table, they ordered bread; and the waitress went to get the bread, brought it back, and laid it down while they were setting there in silence watching each other...?... The door was closed on the outside world. Jesus made Hisself known to them by doing something that He did before His death and burial, to prove to them that He was the very Christ that was dead was with them doing the same thing He done before He was crucified. You see it?

L-37 Now, tonight, if you'll only shut off your theology for a few minutes, shut off your worries, and take Christ into your heart... Close off the world and all around you and just let Him come in. And He will do something here tonight just like He used to do when He was here on earth before the resurrection. And you'll see that He is the risen Christ. Quickly, He vanished out of their sight. And they ran back light-footed, light-hearted, saying, "That indeed the Lord has risen from the dead; we know it. We seen Him do something just the same way He did it before His crucifixion. And to us He is risen from the dead and alive for evermore."
That same Lord Jesus Christ, I declare by His Word, is here tonight. And if you'll only let Him get into your heart, He will do the very same things He did when He was here on earth, or I'm a false witness of the Bible and the resurrection. Challenge of that, how could you turn it down?
If He will, will you receive Him? Would you raise your hand, say, "I will receive It, if He will return to this building tonight and will do the things that He did when He was here on earth, I myself, will believe."?


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