<TITLE>04. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 Notice, then when Jesus said, "Now, he's--he's dead." They thought he was taking a sleep. He said, "He's dead, and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him."
Oh, my, it wasn't though, "I'll go and see if I can; I'll go and make a try," but, "I'll go and wake him." For He knew. God had showed him by a vision that Lazarus was going to come forth out of that grave. And it wasn't no guess work.
Oh, if God would... Any time that God shows a vision of what's going to happen, it's going to be exactly that way, if the vision's from God: just has to be. How I could stop here in my text, and just quote over for hours of cases that I know. I've went to cases where I would think, "O God, surely You'll do it," Just going out and just trying to test my faith against it. But many times it doesn't work. But when God shows a vision, oh, my, it's just got to happen; it can't fail. And because that He does it now, it's the infallible proof that He's still the Messiah, that His Messiahship is sealed by the signs and wonders of the a vindication of His blessed Word.

L-13 And then to think that Lazarus, when he got sick... There's no one knows what sickness is until you've had it in your own home. And I'm sure that every one of us tonight can sympathize with Martha and Mary, of how their only bread maker they had, their brother laid sick in the bed, and perhaps the doctors had give him up. We're taught that he died with hemorrhages in the lungs, probably tubercular. And he died with that condition, and when he was so sick, and the doctor had give him up, and then Jesus failed to come to His friend.
Now, that really was a dark time. Could you imagine those two beautiful young ladies sending for Jesus to come and He refused to do it? After they had come out of the church, and had denied the old orthodox religion, and had separated themselves from the other associates of the world, and were then putting their whole trust in this Man, Christ, Who they believed to be the Messiah, Christ, and then He let them down?

L-14 Oh, we all had them kind of experiences. I remember when I was first converted, how that my people thought I'd lost my mind. "Well," they said, "if you keep that kind of religion you'll be in the insane institution in a few days." You've had the same thing of people making fun of you, and your associates saying that you'd went off at the deep end. But as long as your faith is in Christ, everything will come out all right. Don't never worry about that.
And I can remember of how that the people... I'd meet my boy friend and the young's girls that I was going with, meet them on the street and said, "Billy, you've become a holy-roller." I didn't care, for I knew that something had happened. Something taken place. And in my heart I believed it to be the real genuine Holy Spirit. Twenty-four years has passed, and it's just as anchored there tonight. I have the same determination to serve Him as I did the first night I promised Him in that little old wood shed. Certainly. Something taken a hold.
Dark hours has come; tragics has come; disappointments has come; death has come; but in the face of it all I rest on that beautiful hope, that He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, thou he were dead, yet shall he live."
My faith is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Blood and righteousness;
When all around my soul gives way,
Then He's all my hope and stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, we stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand. (Certainly.)


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