<TITLE>04. Par 36-45</TITLE>L-36 If you look to Him, to argue, then you're looking wrong. He didn't argue. It wasn't meet for Him to argue.

L-37 Remember, you see Him as you look at Him through His Word, and recognize Him. Now you cannot see Him until your eyes is opened to the fact. Two man can look at the same Scripture and disagree; one of them has got to be right, and the other one wrong.

L-38   Sometimes there is things that's happening around us, that we cannot understand; others are saying they see things, others see nothing about it.

L-39 Look at Dothan down there, that day when Elijah had been surrounded by the Syrian army. And his faithful servant, Gehazi, who lived with him, waited on him, cooked for him, and kept his clothes clean, poured water on his hands; was right with him, day and night, listened to him teach and preach. And that morning when he woke up, he looked out and he seen the Syrian army all around; he said, "My father, alas, look at the opposition we have, the whole Syrian army!

L-40 You see, Elijah, when he rose up, and looked, he saw something that Gehazi didn't see. And so he prayed, "God, open this young man's eyes." Now, his eyes were wide open, but he said, "Open his eyes, that he might see." And when his eyes, spiritually, came open, the whole mountains was full of chariots of Fire and Angels all around that prophet. See, it was different when his eyes came open.

L-41   Now, people look at the Word, literally, and that's the way you are supposed to look at It, but It declares Itself both literally and spiritually. The Spirit makes the Word to live to the promise. In other words, It's a Seed, the Spirit gives Its Life. It unctionizes, It gives It Its--its go, like rain gives to the seed that's buried in the ground. It breaks forth, Life. And when you look at Jesus as the promised Word of the hour, then it will be revealed to you. If you look at Him, you'll see that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, the same Christ.

L-42   A portion of God's Word has been lotted to every generation, all the way from Genesis. God always sends someone. Usually the ecclesiastics gets It so mixed up until it's in traditions, and so forth, as it was in the coming of Jesus, and then God sends a prophet along. "The Word of the Lord comes to the prophet," he reveals It. Stoned to death, or put out, kicked out; and then, after he is gone a while, they build his tomb and say he was a great man. They live in a shadow of what he was back there, and refuse the Word going on today.

L-43 It's just like man: he is always talking about how great God is and what He done, how what things He is going to do, and not seeing the things He is doing right now. See? He looks at Him in history, looks at him in prophecy, but forgets that he is doing the same right now as He did then. That's just in man, though.

L-44   We noticed the disciples, one time, after the... Well, it was the first Easter morning. What a morning! Jesus, up from the dead, walking among the flowers. And two friends, Cleopas and one of his friends, was on the road down to Emmaus. And they were walking along talking, grieved at their heart. And a Man stepped out of the bush, and walked with them the rest of the day, talking to them about Christ. And that evening, they asked Him. He act like He was going to pass them by, but they asked Him to come in. He did.

L-45 And, when He did, He did something there the way He done it before His crucifixion and His resurrection. Before He was crucified, they seen Him do it just like He did. They recognized it was Him, though been with Him all day long and never recognized Who He was.


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