<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 And if He gave one generation a wonderful, great square meal of spiritual things, and set us down to corn bread and sorghum molasses, it wouldn't be fair, it wouldn't be like a father. It wouldn't be the nature; it wouldn't be becoming to the--the Judge and the justice of all the world to do such a thing.
Fathers of flesh might do that. They might despise their children in such a way and--that they would--and so stingy that they would not feed their children and--and they die from an allergies and so forth. But never will our Heavenly Father ever let His children die from the lack of spiritual vitamins, for His bountiful blessings are full, and longing to give to whosoever will. Why would we cry, "Where is the God?"
As the little fellow once asked in my city, "If God is so great, why can't someone see Him? Why can't we behold Him as we used to do it, as the Scriptures say He was?" How many ideas people can project into that. But still it's trying to bypass the facts. And facts still remains.

L-16 It reminds me of Saint Luke, the 1st chapter, where Jesus and His parents had gone up to the feast of Pentecost. And Jesus was at the age of twelve. And it was customary in those days, that the people attended this great nationwide feast of Pentecost. It was the in-gathering of the first fruits of the harvest. Mary, and Joseph her husband, and the little boy Jesus, took their journey up to Jerusalem. And after being in Jerusalem for several days at the feast, they left the city so interested in their peoples that they were with, until they forgot to check up to see if Jesus was with them. Oh, how that parallels today. And they went a journey out into the desert before they ever checked, for they thought, surely He was along.

L-17 May I say this, not critical, but for the--making this point. I believe the church has did that, just upon the thoughts, "Oh, He's with us. We don't have to have miracles, and signs, and so forth. We don't have to have Divine healing today. We don't have to have the gifts of the Spirit; they're not for this day. Oh, He's with us anyhow." But, my most precious brothers, do you realize we have found out that all of our creeds and churches, we're finding discord and confusion. Something's wrong.
And we sometimes thinks He might be among our kindred. I've heard that expression many times. "My mother was a Methodist, or Baptist, or Presbyterian, or so forth." You'll never find Him like that. And sometimes you're depending on what mother had, an experience with God, to atone for you. It's got to be your own personal faith in God. You just don't find Him there.
So they checked from pastor to pastor, from church to church, we would say, making it modern. And they could not find Him anywhere.

L-18 I feel sorry for people today. Many thousands of people in this nation that's belonged to dozens of different churches, trying to find where Jesus is. They go down to one certain church, and they check there. They go to another church; they check there. They find out there's something wrong. They don't act like, and believe like, and worship like... And there's no sound of the King in the camp. There's no joy.


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