<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>57-0421E, And Their Eyes Were Opened And They Knew Him, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 66 min
L-1 In St. Luke's Gospel and beginning with the 24th chapter and the 30--the 31st verse, or I'll say the 30th verse of the 24th chapter.
And it came to pass, as he set at meat with them, and he took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave to them.
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?

L-2 And may the Lord add His blessing. My text would be, if I would call it tonight: "And Their Eyes Were Opened And They Knew Him."
Now it's hot, but I wish you would bear just as patiently as you can for just a few moments, and I'll try to hurry. But now, we want to look solemnly at the Word, God's wonderful Word. And we are praying that God in some way will open our eyes tonight.
If Easter is just a celebration of a historical event, and that alone, then we have a little reason to doubt, we have a little reason to question; because it would be left upon the solemn thought of just taking the words. And if Christ hadn't have made the promises that He did, then we'd also, just wouldn't have the evidence that we got.

L-4 But our blessed Lord said while He was here on earth, "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." Now, that word "world' there, comes from "the world order, the peoples of the earth." "The world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Now, those Words are just as true as any of the other Words that we have spoken through this week out of the Bible, just as true as any other Words in the Bible. "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." They will never have their eyes opened. There's people that's borned in the world, not by the will of God, but by their own selfish choice would not believe Him if He was standing right here talking to you tonight. It's sad to say, but the Bible said that, "They were borned in this world, to this condemnation," Jude, and about the 3rd verse.

L-5 Now, but to you tonight, who comes out and stands around in the room and packs together in a little hot building like this, you never come just to be seen. You come for some purpose. And to my opinion, you've come with the sincerity of your heart for a closer walk with God, to leave away from here tonight a better person than you was when you come in. That's what I prayed as I entered the door tonight: "Lord, make me a better person when I come out tonight than I am as I go in."

L-6 Now, when He... Before His going away, He made these kind of statements. He said, "He that believeth on Me..." St. John 14th chapter, 7th verse. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; more than this shall he do, for I go to My Father. I go, and come again."
Now, we'll find the works that He did. The works that He did, He did not claim to be a great person; He was just a humble Man. He didn't speak with any high vocabulary; He just spoke as an ordinary man. He lived among the poor; the foxes had dens, and the birds had nests, but He didn't have a place to lay His head.
He had one garment; that was given to Him; it was wove throughout without a seam in it. That's why they gambled for it. Why was that? Because the prophecy of the Old Testament had to be fulfilled, "They parted My garments, cast lots for My vesture." So they could not split it by the seam; they had to gamble for it, and that was to fulfill the prophecy of the Old Testament.


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