<TITLE>19. Par 62-64</TITLE>L-62 Now, he saw them, and there they was, tossed about, all hopes gone. That's where you're laying, where you're laying, this poor mortal, laying here just about dead, that little baby. You out there with the heart trouble, with cancer, that's where you're at: just all hopes about gone. But you know what? In all of our sin, in all of our difference, let me give this encouraging word before we pray. He hadn't left them. He climbed the highest mountain there was, so He could watch them all the way across; He was sitting up there watching.
When He died at Calvary, brother, He never left us. He climbed the hill of Calvary, on in above the moon and stars, on and above the milky white way, until He set down at the right hand of God in heaven. And His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching us tonight. He hadn't gone so far. He seen them in trouble. He saw the devil was about ready to get them. He sees the devil is about ready to get you all. He sees it's just about ready; you're going to a premature grave. Some of you is going as a sinner, if you don't repent. Some of you will go premature, because Satan's sickness has set in and gripped the life out of you. But remember, He's setting on high, though, watching, waiting to confirm His Word. He watches over it to confirm it. Is that right?

L-63 What happened? When the oars had broke, the mast pole had fell, the little ship was water-logged... That's about like our churches are tonight: water-logged. Fussing about all kinds of baptisms and everything else, we're water-logged. Baptizing this way, sprinkling, pouring, and fussing, arguing, carrying on; the oars are broken, the sails are gone, and there's no more rushing wind. If it come it couldn't blow us anywhere. There you are (See?), all gone.
But here He come walking on the water (Oh, my.), walking on the water. And what did the disciples think when they saw Him come walking? They thought He was a spook. They said, "Oh, it's a ghost. Oh, we're scared. We're afraid if it gets right... Oh, it's spooky." Don't have nothing to do with it. It's--it's--it's mental telepathy. It's--it's fortune-telling." Just as they did then so do they do now, same thing. Afraid of it. "Well, our church don't teach that. I'm afraid of it."
But the Bible teaches that. If He could speak tonight, you know what He'd say? "Be not afraid, it is I." And if it's Him, He will do His same works. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father then believe Me not. But if I do not the works of My Father, then believe the works."

L-64 If I told you (listen, in closing), if I told you the spirit of an artist was in me, well, you'd expect me to go out here and paint a picture like the artist, if that spirit's in me. Is that right? If I told you the spirit of a mechanic was in me, you'd expect me to understand almost the beat of that motor, what was wrong. If I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, I'd have guns, and be dangerous to stand before me, if that spirit was in me. If I told you the Spirit of Jesus Christ was in me, then I'll do the works of Jesus Christ, so will His church, 'cause that's His life in it.
Now, what He was then, and what them people testified of, if He will do that same thing tonight, will you realize that your faith has called Him from glory to this building tonight? Will you accept it? Then what would you say? "Be not afraid," that's what He'd say. "It's I."


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