<TITLE>09. Par 81-91</TITLE>L-81 And one day, standing there, he looked, and he saw a sign coming from heaven. And he knew Him, by a sign. And John bare record, bare record like this, "I bare record that I saw the Spirit of God, like a dove descending from heaven, and a Voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased.'" He announced the Messiah because he seen the sign of the Messiah.

L-82   Now, these disciples must have been discussing this, after this revival was over, see, that for that day, the attitude of some people. Some believe. Some believe not.

L-83 That's the same thing we find today. There is people who believe. Some believe not. We have it in--in all gatherings: some believers; some don't believe, at all.

L-84 And some said, in that day, "Never a man spake like this Man. He don't speak like a priest or a preacher. What that Man says happens right there. See? He manifests what we preach about. See? He, there never a man spake like this." All right.

L-85 And there was some unbelievers, said, "This man is Beelzebub. He can only do this through the spirit of the Devil." And Jesus had rebuked them.

L-86   Then it must have said, John, the young fellow, might have said, "Think of it, brethren, we have Him with us now. Oh, what a thought! He is now in the ship with us."

L-87 If we, tonight, my precious brother and sister, could only settle down for a few moments, to realize, this Messiah that we've talked about, and God said would come. And was here on earth; died, rose again, ascended into Heaven. And come back on the--on the--the... after ten days, and appeared to them at Pentecost, and commissioned His Church. That same Jesus is with us today as we're sailing life's solemn main. We talk about Him. We think about Him. We read about Him, what He did, what He was, how He lived, what kind of a works He did, and then forget about it. Do you realize that He is with us, not only with us, but in us? Oh, how I think that!
What a feeling of security it must have been, to think about the very Creator Himself, sailing through troubled waters with them.

L-88   Oh, what a safety it is today, to know that the very God that made heavens and earth, that made this dust that we dwell in, called bodies, is sailing down life's sea with us, knowing that sickness and pain upsets us, and death stares us in the face. But what have we got to dread? The very Creator of the very dust, the very sixteen elements that make us up, the petroleum and cosmic light, sails with us through every storm and every sea. His truth can never fail. He is with us, and said, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world."

L-89   Now, sailing these troubled waters, they were discussing this, and thinking of what a security it must have been for the people that was with them, the disciples and things, what troubling. They know there was a great revival had just happened, and they was feasting on the results of it.

L-90 Now, I think that's a whole lot like us today. We've had a great revival, but, we find out, it's cooling off. Now, according to history, which I am not an educated person, but I have taken the history of the churches, The Nicene Fathers, and Hislop's Babylons, and so forth, and find out that any revival only lasts about three years. That's just about as long as it lasts. But this has been going on for around fifteen years, because I think it's about the last one we'll have. So we're near the Coming of the Lord.

L-91   And so now it's maybe as they were, on that ship that night, maybe we are the same thing, that we, His disciples that believe in Him, are now just feasting upon what we have seen done. Oh, the things that I have seen Him do! It would take months and months, to... I could write a--a volume of books, of what I seen Him do, of great signs, wonders, miracles. Which are just... It's beyond any human understanding. It had to be the supernatural powers of God, to do such thing.


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