<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 We pray, heavenly Father, that, as this apostolic catholic church has gathered together that You will return tonight in the form of the Holy Spirit. Two thousand years since Your crucifixion for our redemption, the appropriation of our--for our iniquity, providing a water of separation by the washing of the water by the Word. And now, to make Your Word alive, quicken It and bring It to pass. It takes a living resurrected God to do that.
And now, heavenly Father, we would ask tonight that Your Presence would be so great among us, that when we leave this building tonight, this little gathering, even on the first night, may we say like those who came from Emmaus that time after the resurrection that morning... You'd walked with them all day long, talked with them, yet they did not recognize You. And, Father, I'm sure some of us, and many of us, and practically all of us here have walked with You, and You've walked with us; and yet we were not conscious of It.

L-24 But when the evening time come, when the toils of the days had finished, You gathered them in together, and the doors was closed, and then You were shut in with them. Then You did something just like You did it before the crucifixion, and they recognized by the way You done it, that that was You. And they... Then You vanished out of their sight, and they hurried home over to their other comrades and said, "Truly, the Lord has risen."
Won't You tonight, Father, as we have assembled together and closed the doors around us, won't You appear in our midst and do something tonight like You did when You walked in Galilee, and Capernaum, and different parts of the world, that this little audience, and all of us together, might see the proof of the resurrection; The great Messiah of God lives after two thousand years through critics and dark places; but yet they cannot kill Him any more. He lives forevermore. Grant it, Father.
And may we, as we go home tonight say, along the road as we go, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the way?" for we ask it in Jesus' Name, and for His sake. Amen.

L-25 Now, in St. John, the 12th chapter and the 20th verse, we read for a little background for a context.
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, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And then in Hebrews 13:8 (pardon me)...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.
Now, this is quite a text. And for a little background, we might say that these Greeks had the same curiosity that I have tonight, and I believe we all had.

L-26 There's no one that ever heard about Jesus but what longs to see Him. If I would say to this little audience tonight, "How many of you would love to see Jesus?" I suppose every hand in here would go up. That's right. Let's just test it. How many would like to see Him? Let's see. See there? Sure. You've heard of Him. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God."
Now, we'd all love to see Him, sure. I'd love to see Him. Well, now, if He... That would place us in the same position that those Greeks were. They came to Jesus and said--came to the disciples and said, "Sir, sir, we would see Jesus. We..." That's their desire. "We would see Jesus." And Philip took them over and--and brought them to Jesus, he and another apostle, and they got to see Jesus.


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