<TITLE>06. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 Some people make the Gospel a funeral procession. That's right. They go to the church, and just like it was a funeral procession. Others make it a frolic. That's right. Some of them just make it a frolic, just a big time to go and play a bunch of music, jump up and down on a platform, dance all over the platform, or down in the aisle, and run, set down, and talk about their neighbors, and... That's right. Some of them that thinks they ought to stand and say the doxology and the apostle's creed, so called. I want to somebody to show me one thing written in there is apostle's creed. "I believe in the holy Roman Catholic church." I don't. "I believe in communion of saints." That's spiritualism; I don't. But they're so busy making those things up, and they make it a funeral procession.
It's not a funeral procession, and neither is it a frolic. It's a feast, a feast with Christ when the believers come and dine.
The Master calleth,
Come and dine;
You may feast at Jesus' table all the time;
He that fed the multitude,
Turned the water into wine
That same Jesus is alive tonight.
To the hungry calleth now,
Oh, come and dine.
It's a feast and not a--a frolic. And neither is it a funeral procession.

L-19 Now, the message is, He goes before us: before us. He's not in a tomb behind us; He's before us, making a way. We are to follow, not to look back to the tomb, but to look forward to where's He's leading, for He is our Leader. We're to follow Him, not look back to the tombs.
Mary, that morning well represented the bewildered church. She well represented it, because she was in the same channel it sits in today. What did she say when she heard Him speak? "Mary, what... Woman, why weepest thou?"
She said, "They have took away my Lord, and I don't know what they've done with Him." That's about the way the church stands today. "They took away my Lord, and I don't know where to find Him. I have tried all their communions. I've tried all their water baptisms. I've tried Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, Catholics, and all, and I can't find Him. If the Scripture says He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's somewhere. If He's not dead than He's a living. He can't be living and dead at the same time." So Mary well represented the church; "They have took away my Lord, and I don't where they--what they've done with Him."

L-20 The church thinks today, "Oh, there was a great historical Christ. He--He healed the sick. He could discern the thoughts of their heart. He was a historical Christ. He came to the multitudes. He came to Peter, and He said to Peter, his name was Simon, said, 'Your name is Simon; your father's name was Jonas.' Oh sure, that was Jesus did that. That was the sign of the Messiah according to the Scriptures, what the prophet said."
He never taught one thing, neither did Paul. When Paul was brought up before Agrippa, he said, "I've only preached that which Moses and the prophets said would come to pass. Why would you condemn me," he said, "when I've only said what Moses said, what the prophets said would come to pass. Is it a strange thing for you, oh, Agrippa, to believe in the resurrection of the dead? I want you know that God is the resurrection of the dead?" So is He today.


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