<TITLE>18. Par -</TITLE>L-27-1 And He rose, and wiped the sleep from His eyes, said, "Oh, ye of little faith, how long will I be with you? What are you going to do now? What you going to do out here on this stormy sea when this big Galilee is going plumb to the bottom on every wave? What are you going to do when the devil's setting across that mountain yonder, whispering them waves down through like that, and throwing that...?... you know, down there? It's wreaking up the water for thirty or forty feet high. What are you going to do?" Said, "How long will I be with you?" Put His foot upon the brail of the boat and said, "Peace be still." And the winds shut up. In other words, He said, "Wind, shut your mouth. Waves, get back down where you belong." There wasn't even a ripple on the water. He stood there and looked around, walked back for a startled bunch of apostles standing there, laid back down again, and continued His sleep.
They said, "What manner of Man is this?" Wonderful. Amen. Wonderful. Don't you believe He was Wonderful? Sure He was Wonderful. Yes, sir.

L-27-3 When that Man Himself left the heavens, when the entire solar system was His crown--every billion stars that hung in the earth, every star, that millions of miles beyond... When they--you look through that glass out yonder at Mount Palomar and can see a 120 million years of light space, and all those billions and trillions of stars was in His crown... And He left them to take a crown of thorns. Who would do it? Wonderful. Oh, my.
Eternal was His robe. He was robed with Eternal Life. He never had a beginning. He never started at Bethlehem, you know, as people try to think He did. He had no beginning. Amen. Robed with Eternal Life, and pushed it aside to take an old, dirty robe of death for you and I. Wonderful...?... Heaven was His palace. All heaven belonged to Him. That was His palace. Nothing could ever shine with Him. And He came to the earth and even said, "The foxes has holes, and the birds has nests, but I don't even have a place to lay My head." That's Wonderful, don't you think so?

L-27-6 Friends, a lot of context I got wrote here, but I, perhaps, ain't got time to get it. I'll quickly hurry.
That's the Jesus that you must see, not the Jesus of denomination they talk about, not the Jesus of the creeds, not the Jesus of some sort of a mythical Christmas, not the Jesus of some bunny rabbit Easter, but the Jesus of Calvary, the Jesus Who laid aside everything, Who the prophets spoke of. We could go on with here: Wonderful Father, Wonderful--Wonderful Father, Wonderful Counselor, Wonderful Prince of Peace, Wonderful Mighty God. We just keep on going, going, going. See? But to lay aside we say this: We must see... If you... That's the Jesus that we must see to have His Eternal Life. You can't get it in a creed; you can't get it in joining a church; you can't get it by some kind of a fable you're told about Santa Claus. Santa Claus don't have Eternal Life. No. A creed don't have Eternal Life. Not to know His Word even gives you--to know It, it doesn't give you Eternal Life. To know Him, the Bible said, "To know Him is Eternal Life," not know His Word, know Him.

L-28-2 The Greeks wanted to see Him. They wanted to know His Person. "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Now, you don't see with your eyes; you see with your heart. See? You look with your eyes; you understand with your heart. To "see's" "to understand." You look right at something and say, "I don't see it," but you're looking at it. But you mean you don't understand it.
The Greeks wanted to know Jesus, and He give them the way to know Him: to know Him, not to know His creed, not to know His Word, not to know His miracles, but to know Him. And the only way you find that is at the cross, not at the cradle. No, it's the cross, so see.


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