<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>61-0424, The Greatest News Flash In History, Stephen Mather High School, Chicago, IL, 103 min
L-1 Let us remain standing just a few moments for a word of prayer. Our heavenly Father, as we approach Thy Divine throne of mercy tonight, we are grateful that there is a throne of mercy; for it would be a dreadful thing for us to come to a throne of justice. But Christ has met all this, the justice, for us and has reconciled us back to our Father. And we come now in mercy, begging for You to confirm Your Word with us tonight by meeting with us, where it is written that, "Where two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst." Now, we're grateful for this promise, and we know that You keep every promise.

L-2 And we ask You to bless those who are in the way, that You'll encourage them. They have made a sacrifice tonight, all, to come out, and on this rainy and bad windy night. It shows their respects and love for You.
Now, we pray that You will bless those who are sick and needy tonight, that they may be healed of whatever disease that they have by Your Presence. Bless those who do not know You tonight; give them such a blessing that they will love You and will turn their hearts to You before leaving this building. Grant it, Lord.
Bless Your servants, Your ministers, Your evangelists, all that's here in the meeting and elsewhere. May the Holy Spirit be in our lives, that others might see and thirst to have It. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.

L-3 I'm going to lay these down just for a moment. In the Scripture reading tonight, as we will get straight into the message because of being a little late, is found in Saint Luke's Gospel the 24 chapter and the 32nd verse.
And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked to us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
And my text tonight is this, "The Greatest News Flash in History." And my subject is, "Come, believe, and go".

L-4 I marveled at those great, outstanding, glorious, forty days that our Lord was on earth appearing to His disciples and others after His resurrection. I have stood a many time and thought, "What if I could've been there." And under that great expectation, that how that every bend in the road you might meet with Him face to face, the resurrected Lord Jesus. What a thrill it would've been to have met Him and knowed that that was He.
But then on the second thought of that, after thinking what a thrill it would've been to meet the Lord like these fellows did, Cleopas and his friend on his road to Emmaus... And He talked with them all day, and they never recognized Him. And then, that night when He got them together, when they... He made like He would go on by them, leave them, go into the little hotel, or tourist place. And they constrained Him that He should stay and abide with them. And they kept constraining Him, till finally He went in with them. All day, not knowing Who He was...

L-5 And then when they got Him in--or inside and closed the doors, He did something that was--to make them know that it was He. And after talking with Him all day long, hearing Him preach for the three years He was on earth, and then after His resurrection hearing Him preach, and did not recognize Him until He did something just like He did it before His crucifixion... Then they knew that that was Him.
And now, isn't it a strange thing that it takes something on the side of supernatural to make us understand that it's Him, that teaching itself won't do it. He never commissioned His church then to go and teach the Word. He said, "Preach the Gospel," or manifest the Gospel. "And the Gospel came not through word only, but through the power and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit," said Paul.
Now, therefore the next verse says in Mark 16, "These signs shall accompany (or follow) those--them that believe." Then you see, it takes the accompanying of the sign of resurrection to confirm the Word to make Jesus positive known to the people.


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