<TITLE>06. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 And after these--these Greeks came up, and their desires to see Him... And did you notice, they asked one His friends to see Him. That's the way each one of you Christians, perhaps, got to see Jesus, was when you were introduced by a friend, one of the pastors, or the preachers, evangelists, or someone, who introduced you to the Lord Jesus by preaching His Word.
Some time ago, I heard a little story from the river where I live; it's the Ohio River. And there was a little lad, who used to go to Sunday School every morning, Sunday morning, and he was an enthusiastic little fellow, and he--he played down on the river quite a bit.
And no man can get around and see the trees, and how that God lives in the bush... You know, there was a great story about the bush once, of Moses in the bush, saw the Angel, on fire.
But did you know, you can't look at any bush without seeing God. What intelligence is in that little bush, when the winter comes on, to run that sap of the tree down into the roots to stay there until spring, and then bring it back up again. Put water on a stick, and see if there's any intelligence to run it down into the ground and bring it back up into the stick. God's in every bush. He's in every flower. If you just look, you can see Him everywhere. He's good. That way we could all see Him.

L-22 And this little lad, said to his mama one day, she said, or he said to her, said "Mama, can anyone see God?"
She said, "You ask the pastor."
So he said, "I've ask my Sunday school teacher, and she told me to ask you. And said, "Now, you say, 'ask the pastor.'"
So he asked the pastor, and the pastor said, "Certainly not, son. No one can see God."
So one day, he was with an old fisherman up the river, and on his road down, it'd come up a storm, and the leaves were all clean, as the storm cleans the leaves from the dust. And the little ripples, as the river bounced back to it's normal procedures, and just the boatman knows how the rhythm of that little waves dancing on the oars... As he pulled the boat, the old fellow kept looking over his shoulder. And after while, the little boy, setting in the stern of the little rowboat, noticed great tears coming down the old man's beard, dripping from his eyes. And the little fellow got so enthused; he said, "Sir, what are you looking at?"
He said, "That rainbow."
And he said, "I'm going to ask you a question, that no one seems to be able to answer me. Can anyone see God?"
And it was too much for the old fisherman; he pulled the oars in his lap, put his arm around the little lad, and he said, "Blessings on you, my little man; all I've seen for forty years, has been God." Just so much God on the inside, you can see Him anywhere. That's the way we find God, is when He's on the inside looking out.

L-23 These men wanted to find, and see what He looked like. And I think, after nineteen hundred years, and we're taught that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And how we have sacrificed to build up churches, sent missionaries to the field. And in the hard times, that you younger people don't remember, but we older people, when the depression was on, how we just had to break a piece of bread between us, struggle to hold on. What's all this about? Is it just a philosophy? If it's just a philosophy, Mohammedanism can produce just as much philosophy as Christianity.
Is it psychology? Well, Buddha can produce just as much psychology as Christianity. Oh, they go into tantrums, and they scream, and they... And the Mohammedans run splinters through their fingers, and pull it out without bleeding, and lances through their chins. And I've seen them take a sword that...?... a sword through them, and put it through their back, and pour water through. And under that frenzy of worked up and so forth...


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