<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 And as it was in the days of Lot, the Angel said, "Hasten, come quickly. Come out of here, for I can do nothing till thou has come hence." And Lot went out of Sodom, and then the fire fell. And Sodom was completely destroyed, and today lays in the bottom of the Dead Sea.
And Jesus said "As it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."
And then, if we can see (and science says that it is three minutes until midnight) that the world cannot survive these hours that we're facing, and we know it could happen at any time, then how close is the coming of our Lord?
O God, these three services coming up, we pray that You'll shake this little prairie like it's never been shaken before. Grant that every church will have a revival, here through the prairie. Many of these precious people, these Scandinavians and whatmore, out through these prairies here, will be brought to Christ, that when Jesus does appear, that the graves will open and we shall come out, and go in to meet Him, and be with Him forever, for what more have we in earth to look for, but His coming?

L-20 Now, Father, commit ourselves to Thee this afternoon, and this audience. Bless us together. And may the fellowship be great along the Word of God. And when the service is closed, and we stand to say the benediction, and we go to our different homes--some out on the prairie, and some down into the city, and--and different places, and back to the motels and hotels--may we say like those who came from Emmaus on that resurrection morning, when You walked with them all day and they didn't know You... You expounded the Word of God to them, and still they didn't know You. Many time, these precious farmers and loved ones has just seen death at the door; and maybe they didn't recognize it was You that did it, spared their life.
But they said, that came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way?" May we say the same. May the glorious, resurrected Jesus come among us this afternoon and show us that He is still alive, and loves us, and meets wherever two or three are gathered together. We ask it in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.

L-21 Now, I would like to read a Scripture found in the book of Saint John 12:20.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
Then I'd like to take my text from Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Now, remember, I am quoting God's holy Word. And I believe that those Greeks, that day, fitted their question with our desire today. They'd heard about Jesus. And no one can ever hear about Him, unless you'd love to see Him. If I could say this afternoon, "How many in this building would love to see Jesus?" I suppose every hand would go up. Let's see: How many would like to see Jesus? Well, that's wonderful. Thank you.

L-22 I believe that everybody that ever hears of Him, longs to see Him, because He's different from anyone else. There never was a man like Him, and never will be one. There was something different from the philosophers of the Greek scholars of that day. There was something different from the church and the tradition of the Jews.
Jesus, as far as we know, had no earthly education. The Apostle Peter, none of the great Bible theolo--disciples, had education, except the Apostle Paul. And he told us that he had to forget all he ever knowed in order to know Jesus. And then he said, again, "I never come to you with enticing words of men, that your faith would be built in (in other words, intellectual conceptions of men), but I come to you in the power and manifestations of the Holy Spirit, that your faith would be in God."


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