<TITLE>09. Par 91-101</TITLE>L-91 The hungry people looked to Him, one day, and found sustaining bread; a type that the hungry today can find the Bread of Life, not find a creed. You don't find a founder, you don't find a reformer; you find Life when you find Christ, the Bread of Life.

L-92 The dying thief looked to Him, in the hour of distress, and what did he find? He found His pardon. Who else could he look to? The Roman government wouldn't pardon him. No one else would pardon him. But he looked to Jesus, in his distress, and he found Somebody Who could pardon him.

L-93 My brother, sister, tonight, if you are hanging like he was then, on the balance of condemnation; and knowing, if you'd die, tonight, as a lukewarm church member, or a lukewarm Pentecostal, or whatever you might be, you know where you are going. Look to Him, tonight, the One Who can set you free. One, tonight, if you're just only a membership only, and don't know what the resurrection of Christ means to live in a human heart, look to Him. He is God, and He alone. You'll find pardoning like this poor, thick, sin-sick thief did, hanging on the Cross.

L-94   The sick looked to Him. What did they find? They found a healer. The sick tonight can still look to Him and find a healer. They found in Him what was represented in the brass serpent; if that was the type, this was the antitype. The blind looked and could see. "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Hebrews 13:8.

L-95 The poet looked one time, find what he could see. Blind Fanny Crosby looked one time, to see what she could see. Being blind, here was her answer:
Thou the Stream of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Or whom in Heaven but Thee?

L-96 Eddie Perronet, one time, when he couldn't sell his songs and he wondered what to do. And he went back in his office, and that inspiration fell upon him, the Holy Spirit; grabbed the pen, and he looked and he saw Him in power, and he wrote and penned the song:
All hail the Power of Jesus' Name!
Let Angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown Him Lord of all.
That's what he saw in Him. Oh, my!

L-97   Peter, a local fisherman; when his brother had been attending John the Baptist's revival, Andrew. They had been talking it over, about what the Messiah would be, and discussing it. His father had told him that, "There'd be many fanatics raise up, just before the Messiah, but you'll know Him. He'll be a prophet. The Lord said, 'He'll be a prophet.' We're understand to believe our prophets."

L-98 And finally, one day, with all the persuasion that Andrew could do, he finally got Peter to come listen to Him, because He was going to have a meeting down there on the coast, one morning. He went down to hear the Word of God. And while he walked up in the Presence of Jesus Christ, what did Peter see when He looked on Him? He said, "Thou, your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas." That settled it forever. He knew the Word of God had been fulfilled.

L-99   Nathanael, one time, a real believer in the Old Testament, looking forward for the coming of the Messiah. He was brought by Philip, a friend of his, in the Presence of Jesus, standing up on a platform, box stump, whatever it might be, praying for the sick. And when Nathanael walked into the prayer line, or whatever it was, and got the first look at Him, he heard a voice come back to him, and said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."

L-100 He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? When did You ever see me?"

L-101 He said, "Before Philip called you, when I was... when you were under the tree, I saw you."


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