<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Now, it's just now twenty-five minutes until your service starts. But let me just read one Word out of the Bible here, and just talk, or give a testimony, and then we will go. Matthew 5:8 or, let's see, I believe I'll read more than that. I've got something else I want to read. It just comes on my mind, if I can find it now, just where it was at. If I believe I can, I'm not too sure of it. I've got to read something here out of St. John. Yes, I want to read it from here, St. John, the 6th chapter. Let's begin about about the 6th chapter and the 36th verse.
But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which has--he hath given me I should not lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jesus... (Pardon me.)... The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which come down from heaven.
And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I come down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
No man can come to me, except My Father which hath sent me draws him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, cometh to me.
Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
Verily, I say... Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me has everlasting life.
I am the bread of life.

L-16 I was just thinking while I was setting here at the table, and my little context of a text that I had wrote out there, "Letting off Steam"... I thought this morning, "What causes people to drive..." I got a friend here that's come all the way from Texas, and--and across the country. I got friends setting here from Canada. And we got friends from all around in this little group of people this morning. Some of us are ministers, some are workmen, housewives, and so forth. And what is the purpose of us assembling together?
And many of you all come each year to hear our precious brother and his teaching. And many of you read his articles. And I've read them, and I think they're profound. Always, Billy, who's our secretary of the campaign, saves that "Midnight Cry" for me each time, because I like to read Brother Parker's, his approach to the Scripture. And you read it, and you--you think of it. Then when the meetings are, we assemble together. It's because that there's something inside of us that longs to--to hear more, to--to--to get a hold of something. It's life. There is no greater word that we could think of this morning than life. "He that believeth not on the Son shall not see life."

L-17 How blind a person must be that can't see life. And think that many people doesn't see life. Now, we might see it, but the word "see" doesn't mean to look at; the word "see" means "to understand it." Now, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot see the Kingdom." Now, in otherwise, you be looking at something and you say, "I don't see it"; you mean you don't understand it. "To see,' what we call see, that's "to look at." But "to see" in Bible terminology is "to understand what we're looking at, to be revealed." And we assemble together like this that Christ might be revealed among us. That's what the conventions are held for. And such a great thing as life...


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