<TITLE>23. Par 294-308</TITLE>L-294 What am I trying to say? Is this, that, they see the clearly a vindicated Word, like Pilate and the rest of them did, like the Roman soldier, but are you going to wait too late to do anything about it? He should have used the spear the other way. The doors will be closed, like it was in the days of Noah, and then it's too late. You might wake up some morning, and say, "I intend to get out of this mess." Don't wait too long. You had better look and live now.

L-295   Luther looked away from the Catholic denomination. What did he see? A Pillar of Fire. He saw an independent church.

L-296 Wesley looked away from the Anglican denomination. He saw the same thing.

L-297 The Pentecost looked away from all the denominations. And what did it become? A great, mighty people.

L-298 What did each one of them do? When the founders, Luther, and Wesley, and them, and when they looked away and saw what they did and started out; their children, coming behind them, looked back to where they come from, out of the denomination, and took that group of people right back into the same mess that they came out of.

L-299 What are you looking at? The founders look right. But the people, following them, looked back to what the founders come out of, and done exactly what the founders was against; the anointed one of God.

L-300 You know, I got to hurry, 'cause I got a prayer line coming, and I know many of you has to travel.

L-301   One day I took a look. I saw the Word made flesh. I saw the Alpha and Omega. I never seen any three, four, or five; I saw One. I saw Him as my Saviour. I saw Him, the Word. I saw Him, the Light. I saw Him, the Mighty God. I seen God in Him. I saw the Pillar of Fire. I saw, in Him, exactly what the Bible said He was. I saw that He was the Alpha and Omega, that He was the Pillar of Fire. He was the same yesterday, today, and forever. I saw that the Pillar of Fire said, to John, "His never-failing Presence." As he said in John's, over there, "And His never-failing Presence will never leave you." Brother, my opinion tonight, sing that song:
"Look and live," my brother, live,
Look to Jesus now and live;
For it's recorded in His Word, hallelujah!
It's only that you "look and live."

L-302   Look! What do you see? Do you see deliverance? Do you see what He is? Look through the Word and see what He was, then you look through the same Word and see He's the same today as He was then. He is the ante-type of the brass serpent in the wilderness, for the same cause, sin and sickness.

L-303   Judas took a look, one day. And when he looked, after he had took a real look at Him... He had only been looking at the treasure, before that, the pot of money they had. But one day when he looked and seen Jesus, you know what he seen? He seen he was guilty. He seen that he wasn't fit to live, and he hung hisself.

L-304 One morning, one of the greatest mornings in the all history of time. In closing, I'm saying this. There's something happening in the Jerusalem, and all at once a bunch of soldiers came down to the--to the jail. I can hear the jingle of the--the chains; hear the dragging of the spear on the street.

L-305   Who is back in there? Barabbas. He is ready to die. He's a thief. He is no good. He's a robber. He's a murderer. He is going to die.

L-306 First thing you know, he said, "Well, this is all of it for me. I'll be executed this morning."

L-307 The first thing you know, the guard opened the door, "Step out, Barabbas."
He stepped out and said, "Well, I guess this is the end."
He said, "Barabbas, you're absolutely free."
"What? I'm what? I'm..."
"Absolutely free! You're free," I said.
Said, "How can I be free?"

L-308 He said, "Well, come here, Barabbas, look up there. You see that Man dying up there? He took your place."


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