<TITLE>03. Par 25-35</TITLE>L-25 Well, that morning, when Doctor Lee Vayle was my speaker at the campaign, he had introduced me to the--the audience, after the breakfast, and I took the--this text, "I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision." Just in a moment, I noticed a minister looked at his watch, reached over and nodded his head to the other fellow, got up and went out. Before I had said six or eight words, almost a third of that ministerial group had walked out. Before I'd had five minutes of speaking just what Paul said, that he was "not disobedient to the heavenly vision," because God had called him to this work, they seen right then where I was going to base my thought. There wasn't over one third of the group left. Now that's not even giving Christian consideration, as a man that would name the Name of Jesus Christ.

L-26   I say this with respects, but I say it to sink in. I had more understanding, and better fellowship, with a bunch of African witch doctors than I did that group of ministers that morning. They give more consideration to the Word of God, and asked questions, for the... that I could give them the hope that laid within me, for the hope of Eternal Life.

L-27 These ministers had no time for It at all. Just quickly, as soon as you would say something, out they'd go. And so that's the way it is. They got their mind made up, they just stay so long, and that's all they want to know. If it one Word disagreeing with any petty thing that they believe in, they cannot stay and listen through It. That's the reason they couldn't believe Jesus Christ at His first advent. That's the reason they'll miss Him in the Second.

L-28 They miss Him each time. They always have. And He's revealed Hisself in Moses, revealed Hisself in Noah, revealed Hisself in Elijah, all the prophets, they missed it each time. Jesus said, "Which one of your fathers hasn't put the prophets in the tombs out there that they are garnishing now?" That's true. It's always been true. It's true yet today.

L-29 And, yet, in the midst of all this, we're commanded to look. "Look at Him, all the ends of the world."

L-30   Sometimes they come in, a man will judge you by what kind of clothes. If you don't wear ministerial clothes, and so forth, then that's out, they won't have nothing to do with you. Sometimes they want to look to see what kind of an education you have, if you speak your words proper, if you stand correctly, how you use your nouns and pronouns.

L-31 Frankly, I don't know which is noun or pronoun. I couldn't tell you. So, that, that's out, for me, and I--I just don't know. I couldn't make the difference between a noun and a pronoun. I did when I was in school, but I have forgotten that a long time ago.

L-32 I just know one thing, and that's Jesus Christ in the power of His resurrection, that's all I know how to say about. The adjectives and pronouns, I know nothing. And I think that's what we all come together for in meetings like this, is to know Him; not know nouns and pronouns, but know Him, Jesus Christ, in the power of His resurrection.

L-33   Now, some people, when they look to Jesus, they look and see Him, look and look at Him, and, then they see Him, they see in Him only a church founder, or a--a--a church organizer, or maybe a--a creed for a church. That's what many people look to Jesus to see. He is just a new creed that was added to an old doctrine. Now many people look and see Him like that.

L-34 Some look and see Him as a myth, Santa Claus. Or, some of them look to Him as some historical act that God did many years ago. Some of them look to Him yet as a baby in a manager.

L-35 But, the question is, what do you see when you look at Him? Do you see the second person of the trinity, or do you see a trinity, three in One? You'll only see Him as you look at Him through the Word. That's the only way you know It, because He is the Word. It'll reveal Himself. Depends on what you're looking for.


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