<TITLE>07. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 I read a story sometime ago. I think it was a fiction story. And most all ministers, I guess, have read Dr. Ingraham's book of--of "The Prince of the House of David." It's a great book. It's--I think it's absolutely out of print. I'd like to have it in print, so I could put it among the people.
And in there, I was reading a little article on this Lazarus, and upon Jesus, and Mary, and Martha, that's the sisters of Lazarus. And I was reading in there that where Jesus lived, I believe, with Martha and Mary. They were both lovely Hebrew girls. And Lazarus was learning or training to be a scribe at the temple, making letters of the law for the priests.
And Jesus had great fellowship, especially with Lazarus. When we read in the book that where he did come to their home, and Martha was a little dilatory about listening to His words, but she had to get the dinner ready and set the table, but Mary set at His feet. And Jesus said that Mary has chosen the better thing.

L-25 And then, we were told that Lazarus was the one that brought Jesus to John, in the story of Dr. Ingraham's books... And a... on the Prince of the House of David. However, that might not have been true, I do not know, but just for the background of it, but He was supposed to have been living with them.
Now we've been learning this coming--this last week, rather--that Jesus said in Saint John 5:19, "I... The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise. The Father worketh and the Son worketh hitherto." See? What He sees the Father doing...
So to make this really the right story, the Father, God, must have spoke His Son, Jesus, and said, "Your friend, Lazarus, is going to die, but it's going to be for the good, so You leave the home. Go away, 'cause it'll ask of You to pray for him or make him well, and--and I don't want You to do that." If you'll watch the story as we go along, you'll see it heaps up to that very truth of that. So, Jesus, just without any warning or anything, walked away from the house and went somewhere else, didn't return that night. And He went to some other city. And as soon as Jesus left the home, then trouble set in.

L-26 And when Jesus leaves your home, trouble is on its road. Just remember, when He leaves your home, trouble is on the way. When you get social societies and everything operating in your church so perfectly, like some great big sixteen cylinder Rickenbacker, and you leave Jesus out of it, when Jesus goes from your church, trouble's on the road. Yes, sir, when Jesus leaves a denomination, that they lay Him aside and say, "Well, now we just don't believe that these things could be just exactly right," and you adopt something else, trouble's on its road. Just remember that.
Reminds me of a story of the Lord Jesus, that's found in the book of Luke. You know when He was just a boy of about twelve years old, His people taken Him, as the custom was each year, up to the feast of Pentecost. And while they were in the city of Jerusalem at the feast and having a good time, we find in the Bible, that they went three days without Him. And that they thought maybe, just took it for granted, that Jesus must have been among some of their kinfolks. Now, we cannot do that. When they come to go through their kinfolks to find out, He wasn't there.


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