<TITLE>03. Par 21-31</TITLE>L-21   Now let's turn in the Scriptures. To you who like to read the Scripture, let's turn to the book of Hebrews, the 9th chapter, for some Words. Let's begin with the 24th verse of the 9th chapter.
For Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Nor yet that he should offer himself oft, as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with the blood of others;
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
So Christ was once offered to bear the sin of many; and unto them that look for him to appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

L-22 May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. Let us bow our heads now for prayer.

L-23   Almighty God, Who is the beginning of all things, Who made the worlds by Jesus Christ, we come in Thy Presence, in this building this morning, as a gathering of Thy people: to first offer ourselves to You for service; to give thanks for what we have already received of Thy hand; praying that You'll bless the reading of this Word. May the Holy Spirit continue to make the Word real to us, as we look to the Author of the Word, for we ask it in His Name, Jesus Christ. Amen.

L-24   Now, we are going to try, this morning, to take just four letters, in a word, Look, for a subject, and to deal with it a little while, as the Lord will lead us to do. I have a few notes written here, and some Scripture that we might refer to, as we go along. Look.

L-25 L, double o, k, look. The word, really, when... It's used oft. But, "look," when you hear the word, it's usually somebody trying to get you to see what they are looking at. They say to you, "Look." Like going down the road, you, someone, might see a certain scene, and they would say, "Look," and then express what it is. It's at the mountain, at--at the--the cactus, or whatever they're looking at. But, the first thing, to get your attention, is, "Look."

L-26   Now, everybody is looking, today. Everybody is looking for something, and looking for something to happen.

L-27 We know that the world is constantly watching the skies, the radar and the screens that we have up, around the world, every nation, for its own defense, has--has got a magic eye, like, looking to--to find something to appear into this screen, like an atomic missile or something. Then, they've got something there to go back to the one that sent it this way.

L-28   Everything is looking. The Ford Company is looking to make a better Ford. The Chevrolet is looking, make a better Chevrolet. Phoenix is looking to make a larger and better town. The nation is looking for more territory, so it can spread itself. The church, just church, is looking for more members.
But the Bride is looking for the Coming of her Lord.

L-29 We're all looking. Depends on what the voice is trying to tell you to look for. Some of us are saying, "Look for this." And if it's a church, we're saying we want so many more this year, members. That's all right.

L-30   But the Voice that I trying to say to you this morning, is like the writer of this epistle, we believe to be Paul, which is saying, "Looking for the Coming of Jesus Christ, the second time," looking for Him. In order to do it, you got to see something before you can tell somebody else to look at what you are seeing.

L-31 Noah had an experience of this. And he, by faith, he saw the coming of a flood, a great rain that was going to cover the earth and take all the... wash off the earth; the rededication again to God. The filth of the world, that the people had got in that conglomeration that they were in in that day, and it had to all be washed off, to start again.


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