<TITLE>04. Par 38-43</TITLE>L-38 How that seemed to be an idle tale of this Man that they seen embalmed; and died, buried, and this was the fourth day, or the third day since He was dead. Peter got discouraged and wanted to go a-fishing. Two of them said, one by the name of Cleopas, said, "We'll just go back home to Jerusalem." And on their road, walking along that morning when Peter got his fishing line and took off fishing, these two were on their road sad. And as they went along the road, saying, "Well, I guess life is not worth living. Oh, how we believed that He was the Messiah. How could that Man Who raised the dead ever stand and let that high priest make fun of Him? How could that Man, Who could see vision after vision, ever let a Roman soldier put a rag around His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, 'If thou be a prophet, tell us who hit you'? How could He scream for mercy on the cross, seeing that He could even raise up the dead?" Oh, it was discouraging moment.

L-39 And those discouraging times comes to every believer to test you, and to try you, and to see if you really do believe. "Every son that cometh to God must first be tested, child-trained."
There'll be some of you here tonight, no doubt, will go through that same testing. If we should call a prayer line, I have no idea who's got prayer cards; no one else knows; they were just all shuffled up together and handed to you. I'll call from somewhere, wherever is on my mind at the time. We can't stand but a few at a time. Couple dozen, maybe, will pass over the prayer line. All want to come. You may think that He's passed you by, but He hasn't. He's just testing you, just seeing if you really will believe Him. The vision doesn't heal; the vision only vindicates His Presence.

L-41 I was just setting here looking just now across the audience. And I see a--a friend of mine, a Mrs. Cox, from down in Kentucky. Had a big cancer on her face, a few weeks ago, done eat plumb out around her eye. She was dying. Mrs. Wood, my good friend, called me on the phone and was crying, said, "I believe it's going to eat mother's eye out in a few days." The doctor got to tampering with it with some kind of stuff and scattered it. It was in a terrible fix. Went in and offered a simple little prayer, with an anchored faith, that it would happen, and here she sets here tonight, perfectly normal and well; not even a spot of it left, it's all healed up on her face: setting right here in front of us. Others around with the same thing... Why? It's because Jesus Christ raised from the dead, and He lives.
The same One that could touch a leper, and said, "I will, be thou clean," can touch a cancer and say, "I will, be thou clean," if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-43 And as Cleopas and them walked along, discouraged, they were kinda in one of those sad mornings, seeming like every thing going wrong. And all of a sudden, Someone stepped out, as He come behind them, walked up and caught up with them. And little did they know that that was the Lord Jesus. He was alive, and many people that loved Him didn't know it.
And that's the same as it is today. There's many people today that love the Lord and don't realize. You could tell them about it, and yet they can't recognize that He's alive forevermore tonight, that He's here in this church tonight, that He's in the midst of us, and will be till He comes in the physical, corporal body. "I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee."


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