<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 I think that's about the feeling of all of us: Just let me look at Him. And yet, according to our Scriptures, the Bible says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So if he is the same, and our anticipations are the same as these Greeks were, "Sirs, we would see Jesus..." not, "We don't want Him to do a miracle. We don't want to hear His teaching... We just want to see Him."
Well, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why can't we see Him?
Now, we... I want you to hold these words. And don't miss them now, 'cause we having a big campaign, and we're here in this convention where we don't get a chance in the afternoon to--to go through these things; and you must catch it and weigh it with God's Word.

L-10 "Can anybody see God?" That question was asked in a Sunday school in my city. A little lad had been in Sunday school and he said to his mammy, he said, "If God is so great, why can't somebody see Him?" Said, "Can we see Him, Mama?"
Said, "Well, why don't you ask your Sunday school teacher."
She said, "Ask the pastor."
The pastor said, "Certainly not, sonny. No one can see God and live." And the little fellow was amazed at the pastor's statement.

L-11 And he used to stay down on the Ohio river, where I live at the bank of it (raised on that bank). Way up the river at a Six Mile Island, where this old fisherman, the little boy used to go with, goes up to run his lines one day, and the little lad was with him. And on the road down, there come up a storm, and they pulled in and get behind some trees. And after while, the storm clear--cleared away, and they started off in their little row boat with their catch again. And on their road down, there come a rainbow back in the east. And as they were going westward, the old fisherman with his silver-tipped beard, pulling the boat and watching that rainbow...
And the little lad setting in the stern of the boat noticed the teardrops running off his gray beard. And he got enthused, and he run up to the middle of the boat, and he fell at the old fisherman's feet. And he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that seemingly, no one could answer me." Said, "You was looking at that rainbow; and we're taught in the Scriptures that God made the rainbow. He said, "If God is so great," said, "can anyone see Him?" Said, "The pastor said no one could see Him. The Sunday school teacher said no one can see Him. What do you say?"

L-12 The old fisherman, so overcome, he pulled his oars in the boat and hugged the little lad in his arms, and he said, "God bless your little heart, honey. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God." He has to be on the inside, first, 'fore you can see Him on the outside. If He's inside, He will use your eyes to see Him.


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