<TITLE>09. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 Was that amazing when their troubles was so upset and Satan was trying to blow his breath upon them and sink them in the sea, that here He come walking on the waters, walking right into the ship, a very present Help in the time of trouble, ready to help them. But the strange thing was, even in their trouble, they was a scared of Him. They thought He was a--a spirit. Or if we might say it today, a spook, or something that's mystic. They saw Him walking and was afraid of Him.
And it's almost the same thing today. He hasn't left His church. Why, He climbed so high after He resurrected from the grave, until He's so high in the heavens till He has to look down to see heaven. He's above every Angel, every Archangel, and He watches us. He knows our troubles.

L-28 After those disciples had been setting there, and talking of His miracles, within a half hour, they had forgotten it. They'd seen Him working for some year and a half or more, and had forgotten His miracles. And when they seen the only thing that would help them, they cried out that it was something spooky. They was afraid to think that it was their Lord, come to help them, but they was afraid of Him.
We've had more time to think it over than they have. For we have read in His Book of His miracles and of His promise of what He said He would do, and the prophets has prophesied that in this last day He would do these things with all the shadows and signs of His coming. And many look upon it and say, "It must be spiritualism. It must be mental telepathy." And they're afraid of the God of heaven after reading in His Book, and teaching in our seminaries, and talking to different ones of His goodness and His mercy and what He did. And know that He promised that He'd do it again, know that He said, "These works that I do, shall you do also. A little while and the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you to the end of the world."

L-29 In this hour that we're now living, and there's trouble on every hand, there's no place to go to. Sickness is crowding so hard against our scientific researches till they have not medicines that'll touch the diseases. And the atomic race, the missile race, the world shaking, the church in the condition that it's in, and Jesus comes walking right up by His promise to us. The same Jesus that walked on the sea that night walks right in, out of the Bible into the congregation. You go call me holy-roller anyhow, but I feel like shouting. Yes, sir. Christ of the Bible, the God of history walking right into the congregation on His promise of His resurrection... The grave could not hold Him; death could not hold Him; hell could not hold Him. There wasn't room to hold Him. He broke the bands asunder and walked out. And today He says, "Because I live, you live also. I'll be with you even to the end the world. And the works that I do, shall you do also," walking right in on His promise.

L-30 And the church cries out, "Oh, wonder if He's Methodist, wonder if He's Baptist, wonder if He's this..." Christ is Christ, He's God of all. He loves you all, Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals and all. Don't be afraid of Him. The only thing to do is do this like they did. They begin to talk to Him. That's the way to get it. Start talking and say, "Lord, I've read that You promised it; I read that You did it; is this You?"
He will answer back like He did to them. Here'd be the words He'd say to you, about something like this. "Be of a good cheer: it is I, for I am the same yesterday, today, and forever." Let us pray.


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