<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Heal the sick and the afflicted; save those, Lord, who would be saved. Speak to us through Thy Word, and Thy Spirit may come and make the Word manifest. For it is written of You in Your last statement to Your church, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In My Name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; if they should take up a serpents or drink any deadly thing, it should not harm them. And if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
After that You was received up into heaven, according to the infallible Word of God which cannot fail. And the disciples went everywhere, preaching the Word with signs following. And we pray, Lord, that those signs that You said would follow to the end of the world, and to every creature... Help us to take it, Lord, and all of us together to rejoice around the blessings of the resurrection tonight. We ask it in the Name of Jesus, Thy Son. Amen.

L-13 You who follow the Scriptures, I want you to turn with me now in the Bible to Saint John the 12th chapter for a few moments. And we wish to read from the 20 and the 21st verses of Saint John the 12th chapter.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to the--worship at the feast:
And the same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And as a subject... That for a topic, and as a sur--subject, I would like--like to read the 7th and 8th verses of Hebrews 13.
 Remember them which have... rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversations.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday... to day and for ever.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

L-14 Now, these Greeks (I believe) express the feeling of all of us. And it's been the cry of the human heart through the ages: to see God. Even Job, in the Old Testament, wanted to know where He lived at. He wanted to go up to His door and knock on the door, as if to say, he would like to talk it over with Him.
And these Greeks, being scholars and understood much of their words and of their theology of their day, heard about Jesus as being the Son of God. And they thought the most reasonable thing to do would be come to--to come to see Him, would be to find one of His servants that could introduce Jesus to them. That's the right approach. And when we follow it out (the right approach), I'm sure God will take care of the rest, if we follow the right approach.
And how their hearts must've been hungry, as ours tonight. I do not believe that there's any persons whoever heard the word of... the Name of Jesus, but what hungers and thirsts to see Him.

L-15 I believe if I should say to this courtroom tonight, "How many in here would like to see Him?" Every hand would go up, because we want to see Him. It's just the human nature to know that there's something behind the curtain, and we want to see what that is. Where did we come from? And if our Bible tells us that our names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world, surely there was Someone knew us before there was a world. Who is that Person?
The Mohammedans would say that that was Mohammedan; Buddha worshipers would say Buddha. The Sikhs would... And the Jains and the different religions of the world, would speak, "It's their god" or "their god."
And I've had the grand privilege to stand before twenty or thirty different religions, hold their books in one hand and this Bible in the other, and say, "One of them's got to be wrong; and there's only one of them right."


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