<TITLE>18. Par 55-57</TITLE>L-55 And tonight, I think of His glory. After we... We got a open grave here. We go out to the graveyards, ashes to ashes, dust to dust with our loved ones. We sprinkle the clods. I've done it on wife, baby, father, brother. I know what it means and how to sympathize with you as they sprinkle ashes to ashes and dust to dust. My heart would go with it. But then again on Easter morning I can pack a flower and set it on there, look a way down in that grave and know that down there somewhere they're in the Presence of God. "He that heareth My Word and believes on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting life. Shall never come into condemnation but's pass from death to Life."
I think of that. And I think, "Oh, Hope, my wife is gone. Oh, Sharon, my darling baby is gone. Dad, Edward, Charles, my brother, you've gone on." While I stand at the grave, look down there and see their names wrote, see their picture laying there, little flower laying there, I think, "In the Presence of God..." But I think, "I couldn't see you today because you're in a--a different body, a celestial body. I won't be able to see you there." But every time, when they cry out, "Lord, how long?" the souls under the altar; they look setting yonder at the altar, setting there at the Throne and there sets the corporal body. Amen. When we see an empty tomb, that Jesus has promised they would come up from the grave again, down yonder, they still got a sign, God gives...?...

L-56 Everywhere God is a sign. You know that? Where there's God, there's signs. Signs... "These signs shall follow them that believe," said the Bible. That's right. Signs everywhere. Everywhere there's signs, we shouldn't seek after them, but God gives them. That's His grace. He gives them. We go to seeking after them, then we--that's wrong. But when He just gives them by His grace, that's wonderful.
And there's a sign here that we're going away from here someday. We're going to go up from that grave again, 'cause there's an empty grave in Jerusalem. Amen. And then up there, there's one who come back and visit with us. There's a sign someday that they'll be made flesh, although their body's laying there, the cankerworms eat them up, but yet there's a corporal body that one day will raise up from the dead. Someday they're coming back to earth again. Oh, I want to be with them. Amen.
Job said, "Though the skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself, mine eyes shall behold and not another." That's right. He knowed He was coming forth because God had promised.

L-57 And we got signs tonight. A--a missionary was crossing the country one time. And he said an infidel was with him, guiding. He said, "All you guys come here talking about something you can't see. It's all nonsense." Said, "There is no such a thing as that. Why don't you all go get next to yourself and go to your home." Missionary never said a word.
That night after they made their camp. Next morning when they got up, the sun was peeping up over the desert hill, and the man that was--was the infidel went out, and said, "Oh, what a morning." He said, "Say, there was jackals around here last night."
He said, "How do you know there was jackals?"
Said, "I see the signs where they was."
Said, "I don't see no jackal."
Said, "There was signs around here though. I know they was here."
He looked up at the sun; he said, "Hallelujah. God still lives. I see the signs and He's still on the throne." Amen.
And tonight when Jesus comes here to save the sinners, and to break forth His Word, and to show His signs and wonders, we just shout the praises of God. Our Christ lives tonight. Amen.


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