<TITLE>15. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 All hopes was gone. They thought everything was past, they was going to drown. And when the very crucial moment, when He had watched them, and here He come walking to them on the troubled sea. And now, the sad mistake that they made (I want to say in closing.) is the same sad mistake that the church is making today. They were afraid of Him. They thought He was a spook, a spirit, something spooky, fortunetelling and devils...?... That's what they thought. They begin to tremble.
But listen at that comforting word, "Be not afraid; be of a good cheer; it is I. It is I" The only thing that could help them, the only help there was to be helped, and they was afraid of it.
And today the only thing that'll break down the barriers, the only thing that can melt us together as brothers and Christians, the only thing that could bring us together again is the Spirit of God, or the love of God, that's shed abroad in our hearts, a message of grace from God that we are not divided, all one body are we. God heals them just the same as they was--whatever they are. We are not divided.

L-44 They see the Spirit of God that was promised by Christ Himself. In the last days He said, "As it was Sodom..." When that Angel set of God's Spirit manifested in flesh, eating the flesh of a calf, eating the milk from the cow, drinking buttermilk (sweet milk, whatever it was), eating butter on corn bread, setting there eating like a man, had His back turned to the tent, a Stranger... He'd never been around there before. Abraham had never saw Him. As far as Abraham knowed, He'd never saw him. And He said, "Abraham, where is your wife Sarah?" Oh, how'd He know he was married, how'd He knew he had a wife, and how'd He know his name was Sarah?
I'd imagine Abraham said, "My leading was right." Said, "She's in the tent behind you."
Said, "Abraham, I am going to fulfill My promise to you." Notice, not an Angel, not a man, but "I, going to fulfill My..." What a promise, "What I promised you..." Oh, my. Can't you see it was God? Abraham said it was God. He called Him Elohim, Lord God, Creator. "El, Elah, Elohim" means "the all sufficient and the self existing One." Amen. He was the self existing One, Elohim, manifested in a body of flesh, eating and drinking like a man that knowed he was Abraham. The same God was made manifest and said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas. I saw you when you were under the fig tree." El, Elah, Elohim, see it?

L-45 And in the last days He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." Don't be afraid of God; it's the only thing that can help you.
"Will it help us Methodist?" Yes. "Help us Baptist?" Yes. "Help us Oneness?" Yes. "Twoness?" Yes. "Threeness?" Yes. Fourness, Fiveness? I don't care what you are; it's help for all of you; don't be afraid of it. God's Bible message to every one of you... "Whosoever will let him come and drink from the fountains of the water of Life freely."
"Don't be afraid, it is I", said Jesus. "And I will be with you ('I,' that pronoun again, personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world," (Amen.) Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever...
When He was yesterday in His day He was a Pillar of Fire. He was manifested in flesh, said, "I come from God and go to God." A few days later after His resurrection, Saul, breathing out great threats, went down to Damascus; a Light, a Pillar of Fire struck him down, he said, "Who are You?"
He said, "I'm Jesus."
Peter was in prison, a Pillar of Fire come in the window. Peter thought, "I'm having a dream now."
He said, "Come on, follow Me." The gates opened by itself, passed right by the guards. He didn't realize it was God till he was on the outside. Amen. I love Him, don't you? Let's...
Now, my time's five minutes over. Let's just sing this little song to Him, all you people, everyone. "I love Him, I love Him because He first loved me.


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