<TITLE>05. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 Now, they said, "Could we see Jesus?" Reminds me of a little story of a boy in our city. He got to going to Sunday school as any little normal lad should do. And he heard the preacher preach about how great God was, and his little heart become thrilled. And he goes to his mammy one day and he said, "Can anyone see God?"
She said, "Why don't you ask your Sunday school teacher?"
And the Sunday school teacher said, "I could not tell you, ask the pastor."
And the Pastor said, "Sonny, of course, no one could see God. No man can see God and live."
Well, that didn't just exactly satisfy the little lad. And we live by the Ohio River, and he used to go up to what we called the Six Mile Islands, six miles out of Louisville, with an old fisherman that used to come to my church. And he--he had white beards and, and he'd go up there with this old fisherman to fish. And one day while he was up there, it come a storm. And the... After the storm was over... They had pulled into the bush to dodge the storm; then they went back out into the river and was going down with a good healthy catch out of the old fisherman's net, and a rainbow come facing the east as they were going towards the west.

L-14 And the old fisherman, as he pulled his boat, the little lad setting in the stern of the boat, noticed tears running down over his grayed beard. And he got enthused, and he ran up forward to the middle of the boat, and he fell down by the old fisherman's lap, and he said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question that seemingly the pastor, and Sunday school teacher, my mother, or nobody can answer me. The God that made that rainbow, and the God that made all things that are, could any man see Him?"
And the old fisherman, overcome by the little lad's statement, pulled him up into his arms, and bathed his little head with tears, and he said, "God bless your little heart, honey, all I've seen for the past forty years is been God."
Why? You have to have God on the inside before you can see Him on the outside. And there's many people that doesn't seem to understand what God is.
But He has to come in, and look through your eyes, use your eyes, and your mind, your thinking, and your sight, your emotion, all has to be fully controlled by God. As I said the first night here, the door inside the door. He must be Lord. Now, certainly if God's on the inside, He can express Hisself in a image somewhere in rainbows and everything that you could see Him.

L-15 A woman over in Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks ago, the whole ten cent store was upset by a scene of emotion. And there was a woman came into the ten cent store, and she had her little boy of, oh, two years old, I guess, in her arms, or maybe a little older. And she would go from counter to counter, picking up little things and saying, "Look, darling; look here, darling." But the little boy just set gazed.
And she would go to another counter, and she'd pick up something and say, "Look, darling." And to the people in the--this ten cent store begin to notice the woman. And she become more hysterically all the time. And finally, she came to a certain little trinket, and it rattled. And she picked it up, like a little boy of his age, his attention would be attracted to it. And she rattled it in front of his face; she said, "Look, darling." But the little boy just set and gazed. And she fell exhausted into the pile of little trinkets across the counter.
And some of those who stood by run to help her, and they said, "Madam, what is the matter?"
She said, "Oh, no, he's no better."
And they said, "What do you mean, he's no better?"
Said, "The doctor said awhile ago, he thought he was better." Said, "You see, this is my son, and he just... As far as the doctor's know, that he's a normal child. But he's just got to a place that he didn't pay an attention to things that pertain to children of his age. And he just stares like he's paralyzed in his mind." And said, "He's no better, he's no better."


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