<TITLE>07. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 Now, I'd like to ask this afternoon, would you like to see God? Would you like to really see this One that we're talking about? Could He be seen?
We spoke on that the first night here. But I'm going to show four different ways that we can see God. Now, I'm going to speak on four subjects right quick: God in His universe, God in His Word, God in His Son, God in His people. And maybe by that we will be able to find what is God, where He is. Is He gone on? Was He something that once lived and now is passed away? No, sir.
He said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Lo, I am with thee always, even to the end of the world. Yet a little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world."

L-29 Now, I'm going to speak first on God in His universe. Let's look around now and see if we can see Him. And if I can, by the Scriptures, prove that God Almighty is right here in this room this afternoon, surely it ought to settle the question of whether you'd believe Him or not.
But by the Scriptures and by the evidence, prove that He's right here now. You look over the top of Him all the time, trying to find Him. You're jumping at something way out there, when it's right here. The Bible says that God is closer to us than our arms--our members of our bodies, because He is part of us. He's our Life.

L-30 Not long ago, speaking of God in His universe, I had an old man that went to my church by the name of James Wisehart. He was an old fisherman. I called him Uncle Jim. He was about close to eighty years old.
And he used to fish up on the river. He would come over to the church. He was a Kentuckian, and the river's about one mile across and, oh, the fine hours that old Uncle Jim and I have had on the river together, catching those catfish. Lay out on the banks all night together and talk of God and hold one another's hands and cry like babies. He's over on the other side this afternoon. I expect to see him someday, when I cross over.
The last word I heard him say to me, when I was coming to Canada, here a few years ago, he said, "One day, Billy, boy, you'll return, and Uncle Jim will be gone." About two days after that, he dropped suddenly and died in a heart attack, went home to meet God.

L-31 There was a certain church in our city that a--a little family went to this church. And the church was just more like a denomination that believed that there... kindly taught God to be a historical something. And so there was a little boy in his Sunday school class, had got enthused, and he said to his mammy, he said, "Mother, if--if God is so great, and why can't I see Him?"
"Why," the mother said, "sonny, I don't know."
Said, "Can I see Him?"
She said, "I don't know. Why don't you ask your Sunday school teacher?"
And so they... The little boy, at the next Sunday school, said, "Teacher, I want to ask you something that my--my mama cannot answer." Said, "Can anybody see God?"
"Why," she said, "I don't know." She said, "Ask the pastor."

L-32 So the little boy in--with his enthusiasm went to the pastor and said, "Pastor, I wish to ask you a question that my mama or neither my Sunday school teacher can answer me." Said, "This great God that you talk about, is He not the God of the human race?"
"Yes, sonny. Why?"
Said, "If He is God, then can anybody see Him? I'd like to see Him."
"Oh," he said, "sonny, no. No one can see God. God is not to be seen."
The little lad was disappointed. So he used to go up on the river with old Brother Wisehart to fish. One day coming down, and Brother Wisehart with his silver-tipped beard, was about seventy-five years old. And they'd had a lovely catch up on the river and was coming down. There come up a storm, and it run them in to the bank.


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