<TITLE>01. Par 1-7</TITLE>64-0112, Shalom, House Meeting, Sierra Vista, AZ, 137 min
L-1      Thank you, very much, Brother Isaacson. [Brother Isaacson begins to speak about a man that has cancer. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Isaacson.
Good morning, friends, you may set down. Yeah. It's good to be back on the backside of the desert. You know, we... I believe, the last time I was here, I titled this place, "the backside of the desert." That's where we usually find the--the Lord, or where It was found one time when Moses was herding the sheep at the backside of the desert.
This fellow here, I picked him up, in the rearview mirror, a while ago, coming down. I heard, the other day, he was in the hospital. I was praying for him, and here he's setting here, this morning. [Someone says, "He's all right."--Ed.] Well, that's good. I'm so glad. He had a bleeding. And so, we so glad to see him in, this morning.
Sorry to hear about this brother that was with us, the last time here, that's got cancer, in the hospital. We know that we only have one avenue out of this, and that's the avenue of death. That, we all have got to walk that path, whether we the most righteous, the most holy one of us, we pack one another over the other one's grave. And yet Jesus said, "He that believeth in Me shall never die." But what the "death" is there, is not what we call death.

L-2 Like when Jesus spoke about Lazarus, He said, "He sleepeth."
And they said, "Well, we'll... He does well if he sleeps."

L-3 Then Jesus said, had to tell them in the language they knew, see, "He's dead." He said, "And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there, but I go wake him." See?

L-4   And that's when He made that wonderful quotation that we have in the Scripture, "He that heareth, he that believeth on Me, has everlasting Life; shall not come into the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life. I am the resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die." See? Never die! There's no... There's really no death to a Christian.
Death means "Eternal separation."

L-5 And now as when we are... die, like in the physical body as we are now, we are separated from one another. But, it's really this body is the only thing that identifies us to each other, because we are bound in five senses: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. And as long as we can see or feel one another, why, we have evidence that we're here. If you're blind and can't, and--and can't see, then you can feel one another, and we... or hear one another. And the earthly senses declare one another.

L-6   But, really, frankly, we have never seen each other. Did you know that? We have never seen one another. You hear something speaking out of a body here that impersonates whatever it's on the inside. So then when we talk to each other, we're--we're really not talking to the body. It's the spirit inside, but the body is the thing that identifies the spirit that's on the inside. And therefore, when we speak to each other, we are... quickly can understand right away whether we are Christians or not, because there's a fellowship in the spirit that we talk from. You see, that it vibrates to one another that whether we are Christians or not. Therefore we have never seen each other.

L-7   Jesus. "No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him." See? In other words, God was identified. The--the Person of God was identified in the Body, the Lord Jesus Christ, so He was the expressed image of God. Or, God expressing Himself through an image, see, through an image, Man. God expressed Himself to us, and He was God. Not a third person or second person; He was the Person, God. He was God Himself, identifying Himself, so we could feel Him.


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