<TITLE>07. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 Now, this was just after a--many people had come to the feast, because Lazarus had been raised from the dead, and it caused a great...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And people come up to see Lazarus, and they came to see Jesus also. And now, I believe that would be the desire of every heart here, like those Greeks who came, they had heard of the fame of the Lord Jesus, so they wanted to see Him. "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
Now, I wonder how many here tonight, would like to make that same statement and would want to see Jesus? I'd just like to see your hands go up, if you want to see Jesus. All of us wants to see Him: I want to see Him; you want to see Him; and that's the desire of the Christian world, is to see Him. That was the desire of the orthodox world, of the Jewish church when Jesus came; they wanted to see the Messiah; but they didn't believe Him when He was manifested. And I wonder, sometimes, if that just about isn't the way we are too. We long to see Jesus, but when He appears, we think it's something else; turn Him down.

L-22 The disciples, one night in a boat, where all the hope that they'd ever be saved was gone... The little water-logged ship was about to go down in each pitch of the wave. And they seen Jesus come walking on the waters and they were afraid of Him. The only help that they could get had to come from Jesus, and when He appeared, they was afraid of Him.
I'm almost sure that in great parts of the world that's what the attitude of the people are when they see Him, and He presents Himself to them; they're scared of it. And I want you to notice; they thought He was a spirit, as we would call today, spooks or something, you know: ghosts. When they saw Him, they didn't realize it was the real Jesus.
And when Jesus come and manifested Himself to the church, He was supernatural in His works. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, what sent Me, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then if you can't believe Me, believe the works. But if I don't do the works that..." In other words, "If I don't confirm the Scriptures that was written of Me, then don't you believe Me because the Scripture will have to bear record of Me."

L-23 Now, may I use that as a secondarily, a answer tonight. All Scriptures has a compound (prophesies, especially), has a compound meaning or a compound answer. Like, "Out of Nazareth I have... Out of Egypt, I've called my Son." Matthew 1. But we found out, He was calling of the original Scripture for that, was when He called Israel out of Egypt: it had a dual meaning.
And may I add this tonight, likewise: when God's Word is preached, then God's obligated to that Word. And if He doesn't manifest Himself by that Word, you have a right to doubt Him. I would doubt it. Or if He made a promise and then didn't keep His promise, then that wouldn't be the--the God of Creation. We'd be all mixed up in something. But if He keeps His promise, then if we doubt it then, then we become sinners.


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