<TITLE>09. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 Was many years later, when our text reading, tonight, or subject reading, when Elijah had seen the curse of that nation and was up on the mountain... And for hundreds of years there had been no prayer answered in Israel. Yet, Elijah knew that there was a God of history that could come on the scene. And he challenged the unbelieving world to stand in the presence of this God and see which one would answer by fire. And the God, Who could protect the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace, brought down fire and consumed the sacrifice.
It was also not long after that, when a man had died by the name of Lazarus. And there was a God that still lived, that could take Enoch home without even seeing death, and take Elijah up on a chariot of fire, and He was called on the scene in the dark hour of death, and He acted just the way He would at any time. Yet He was a God of history, but was raised up from history to a present crisis.
It was down by the Jericho gate, where a blind man set by the road crying. All hopes was gone; no doctors could do him any good; his money was spent. There was nothing left for him, but to set there and dream for a few days, till death would be a sweet relief. And one day, coming down the road, a God of history come on the scene in a present crisis. God opened the eyes of the blind.

L-34 It was in Jairus' house, where the doctors had failed, and turned a little girl back to the--to be--to die. And death had come in, and taken it's bitter toll, and had taken the only child of the home, the little girl of twelve, and stretched her out on a couch.
When a broken hearted, little preacher had to forsake his denomination and all of his friends, but he remembered that there was a God of history Who could raise the dead, and he went to find Him. "Seek and ye shall find; knock and it'll be opened unto you; ask and it shall be given unto you." He's still the same God.

L-35 When this God, dwelling in a body called Jesus, the Son of God, when He was called on the scene, called up out of history, the God Who could raise the dead in the Old Testament, bring life back to a dead baby through a prophet, that God cannot die. He's God for eternity.
That baby laying down on the bed, stretched out, and little Jairus, knowing that the Shunammite got her baby back, he said, "That God of history, if He could ever be called into action, He's the same God today." And searching through--he'd heard of some mon--Man that claimed to have the power, and that was Jesus of Nazareth, Who they all hated. But he called Him on the scene, for He was the closest representative he could find of God of today--the God of a living God. And when He was called on the scene, and the historical God was called up, He acted the same way He did, when He spoke to Elijah on that dead baby.

L-36 Let me more say today, my brother or sister, in this present day, when crisis, and when cancer is eating the world up, and diseases of all kind, the same historical God that cleansed the leper, healed the sick, and raised the dead, is the same God today. He's waiting anxiously for His people to call Him on the scene of action.
One Who could forgive a heart for committing adultery seven times in a day, He Who could cleanse the vilest sinner and make them white as a lily, that same God of history lives today to clean every blackened heart of sin and unbelief.


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