<TITLE>02. Par 6-9</TITLE>L-6 So it was a great time, them glorious forty days. How I would've loved to have been there. But then, thinking again, that I'd have had to been a believer, because He did not appear to no one but His elected church. He only appears to believers. And as He was then, He cannot change. Today He still only appears to His elected church: believers.
Now, we find that there were many who taught of Messiah in those days. And there were many who looked for a coming Messiah. But He had a church that was elected. So has He tonight. And that is the--where I left off from last evening, the elected church. And then He appeared to His elected church only; the rest of them did not recognize Him. And if He was here today, He would just do the same as He did then: appear to the elected believer. He never appears to the unbeliever.

L-7 Why did not Jesus, after His resurrection... If He was so interested in everybody knowing that He had raised from the dead, then I wonder why He did not go up to, well, say, Pilate, or to Herod, and say to them, "See, here I am. You thought you had Me, didn't you? But I told you I'd raise up on the third day, so here I am." Or why did He not go to Caiaphas, the high priest, or go to the orthodox church down to the synagogue, and say to them, "Now, you all have always believed that there would come a Messiah, and David said that His soul would not be left in hell; neither would He suffer His holy One to see corruption, so I am here, the One that you nailed to the cross. I am here in the resurrection to prove to you that I am the Messiah." Why didn't He do that? Because if they could not believe Him when He was here in the Person on earth before His crucifixion, they would not believe Him afterwards.
And so then they'd say, "There's something else happened. He wasn't all the way dead, or His disciples had some kind of an embalming that brought Him back to life, or something had taken place." So He only appeared to those who believed Him, and loved Him, and was elected to see Him. That's the same way He would do it today, if He should come today, and which He has, in Spirit form.

L-8 And you notice that He only shows Himself, like we left off last night at Abraham. He never went down unto Lot's group. But He appeared to the elected group: turned His back to a tent and said, "Where is thy wife, Sarah?"
He said, "In the tent." And He told what was going to happen and--and how that they were going to have this child. And Sarah laughed. And He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" And Sarah tried to deny it.
And Jesus, when He said, "As it was in the days of--of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man..." See? Now, that Angel never did go down to that Sodom bunch. He only stayed with the called out and elected. They had their messengers. And their eyes were blinded to the door. But the elected group saw God manifested in the flesh.
And this--on this great resurrection morning they saw God manifested in the flesh. Death couldn't hold Him. And He only came to His elected ones, not to the other churches at all, just to His elected ones. Now, why did He not go to the church? He did when He came. He came to His own, and they received Him not.

L-9 Now, He has come in the form of the Holy Spirit in an--not to the church, but to the elected church. And we, the church, is to take Him to unbelievers. We are the ones that's to let His Life shine through us that others might believe. It's us, Christ in the church, that shines forth His Presence to makes Him visible to all. So therefore, He, when He shines Hisself forward, forth rather, through the lives of His elected believers; those who are elected to Eternal Life, receive Him. He said, "My sheep hear My voice, stranger they will not follow. But My sheep hear My voice." He manifested Himself to His called out and elected church. He does the same thing to the church today to manifest Hisself through His beings, us, the church, called out church.


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