<TITLE>04. Par 33-43</TITLE>L-33 And the human heart has always longed to see God. As we were speaking the other night, of those Greeks that came up to the worship, and they said, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." They had heard of Him and they could not rest until they had seen Him. And I think that's truly the way that any real, true believer that ever hears of God, there is something within him that pulsates to him that if he could only see Him.

L-34 And, yet, we can see Him. Jesus said here, "When you've seen Me, you've seen the Father." So we know that you can see Him. Now, as long as we could think of human beings, they've always longed to see God.

L-35 Even, Job, I think that's the oldest book in the Bible. It's supposed to be. And was really written before Moses wrote Genesis. And Job, that great patriarch, and knowing God, and when he got to the spot that he got in his trouble.

L-36 Usually, man will seek after God when he's in trouble. I've heard men say, "I don't even believe there is a God." But let him fall and hurt himself, or the doctor say he's fixing to die, then you hear him say, "O God," like Bob Ingersoll. You, you'll think of God before you think of your mother or anyone else, 'cause there's just something in you. You're a human being.

L-37   Now we find that Job got in such a distress, when he was broke out with boils and troubles, and he set on the ash heap and scraped his boils.

L-38 I remember taking the book of Job, at the tabernacle, some years ago, and I was almost a year with the book of Job. And one sister had enough grace, that she didn't ask me right out to the platform, but she wrote me a letter. She said, "Brother Branham, when you ever going to get Job off that ash heap?" I had him setting out there, but I was trying to build up, around, to make a point somewhere, the--the killing point, that it would show the people, where we could have the altar call. And then hundreds responded.

L-39 Now, sitting in misery, and he was longing to see God. He said, "If I only knew where He lived at, if I could go and knock on His door, I would--I would know Him. I'd like to set down and talk with Him." See, the human heart calling out for God.

L-40   And surely, if there is a human desire in a human's heart, who is a creature of God, calling out for God, there has got to be a God somewhere to respond to that call. But when the deep calls to the Deep, there's got to be a respond to that call. Before a deep can be in here, calling, there has to be a Deep out there, to respond to that call, or there'd be no call in here.

L-41 As I've often said, before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water, first, for him to use that fin, or he wouldn't have had any fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth, first, or there wouldn't have been any tree. And as long as there is a creation, there is a Creator to create that creation. See what I mean?

L-42   And when there's a hunger and thirst in a human's heart, for something, there's got to be something to respond to that, or the thirst wouldn't be there. So, tonight, we are here, saying, "Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." And now, if there is a God, which we know there is, and the call in our heart to see Him, then why can't we see Him? If there's a call here that tells us we want to see Him, there's got to be some reason that we... some way to see Him.

L-43 And now I, by God's help, I'm going to try to--to show you, or speak on three different ways, or I'll say, four different ways, of seeing God. I'm going to speak on: God in His universe; God in His Word; God in His Son; God in His people.


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