<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 Now... But now, to see Jesus. Now, we find out that when you see Jesus, you see God. Said, "He that's seen Me, hath seen the Father; why sayest then, 'Show us the Father?'" John 14.
When Thomas said, "Show us the Father, and it'll satisfy us," He said, "I been so long with you, and you don't know Me? When you see Me, you see My Father." The Father was in Christ, in--in Jesus expressing Himself to the world.
Now, we watch Him at His beginning when He was baptized with the Holy Spirit at the day when God came in to dwell in Him, when John baptized Him with water. He went straight into the wilderness and was tempted of the devil. Don't you see just as soon as a spiritual blessing actually happens, look for the devil to stand there right then to rob you of it if he can.

L-26 Now, he took Jesus through every twist that could be taken. He got Him real hungry first. He said, "If Thou be the Son of God, turn these stones into bread." Jesus come right back, with not His power, not His gifts, when all the Fullness of God dwelled in Him, but He didn't use it. He brought it down to where the weakest of Christians could have the privilege of using it. He said, "It's written that men shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." There you are. "Man shall not live by bread alone."
The--the--then Jesus was taken under temptation to the pinnacle of the temple, and said "Perform a miracle for me. Let me see it done." You see, that same enemy lives today. "Let me see something. Let me bring you somebody, and you heal them for me." See? It's the same devil.
The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The Spirit that was upon Elijah, come upon Elisha, from Elisha to John the Baptist, on down. The same Spirit that was in Christ is on His Church, and will be till Jesus comes to unite that Body with His in glory. Certainly.

L-27 Never his spirit, but his man... Satan comes down with a religious man, just as religious and renowned as he can be, and he will work and he will persecute the Church of the living God, take his man, put it upon another. Look at those Pharisees and Sadducees, what scholars they were, how educated, how smart, how holy. They had to be borned of a certain lineage. They had to come out of a certain tribe. They had to be so scholarly and so holy, but yet rejected Christ.
And I say it with respect, but the same things take place today. God is a moving with His Spirit through the earth, doing signs and wonders. And listen here, my friends; I don't want to scare you or harm you, but I want to tell you the truth. You're looking for something to happen that's already happened. The next thing's the coming of the Lord. It's went right over your head. You didn't know it. Remember the day you're living in. Take heed to what you're listening at. Wake up yourself.

L-28 A few days ago I was speaking. Someone come for an examination of that picture of the Angel of the Lord, and they was referring to it as the same Angel that led--led the children of Israel after this famous play got here: "The Ten Commandments." Cecil DeMille tried to put that place--that play on of those ten commandments.
The Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, that was the Angel of the covenant which was Christ. When He was on earth, He said, "I come from God; I go to God." And when He... Before He came to be the Son in Spirit and flesh, He was the Pillar of Fire. He returned back to the same thing.
Paul, when he was on his road down to Damascus to persecute the Church, there was a great Light hung before him and put his eyes out. No one seen It but Paul. Christ can appear by here tonight, and one can see and the other can't see it. He reveals Himself to who He will.


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